Profinet
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Oct 28, 2026
Shawn TierneyHOST
And it's just pretty impressive.
Shawn TierneyHOST
It also has PROFINET and Ethernet IP built in.
Shawn TierneyHOST
And it shows you all of the configuration for either network.
Shawn TierneyHOST
And it even has the configuration files built in.
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Xiao KaoGUEST
Again, with Sparky's help, it's able to help diagnose any sort of issue you might be having with your camera's integration.
Xiao KaoGUEST
but also guide you through the process of picking the right integration, picking the right results, getting the tool results into your PLC, and kind of monitoring your integration for you.
Xiao KaoGUEST
Concretely, we support PROFINET, Ethernet IP, OPC UA.
Xiao KaoGUEST
We also do Modbus TCP.
Peter SeebergHOST
What are the types of protocols? What can they do? What has been your experience in using them? But how does the PLC communicate with the robot? There's many different languages.
Peter SeebergHOST
You know, there's PROFIBUS, PROFINET.
Peter SeebergHOST
others, I don't know, maybe you have your own languages, so to say, that you are using.
Thorsten BrachGUEST
Yeah, mostly you have a fieldbus system between the PLC and the robot.
Thorsten BrachGUEST
Yeah, that depends on the brand of your PLC system.
Thorsten BrachGUEST
I would say in the Siemens world you always have the PROFINET, in the Beckhoff world you have the ISACAT, but there are a lot of other fieldbus systems as well.
Thorsten BrachGUEST
And that's a little bit of the field bus war, I would say, we
Peter SeebergHOST
still have.
Mirko PetersHOST
On a real shop floor, data doesn't arrive through one neat interface.
Mirko PetersHOST
You may have OPC UA from a newer machine, Modbus from an older drive, Profinet inside a control network, and a vendor-specific device that exposes only the data its manufacturer chose to expose.
Mirko PetersHOST
None of that is unusual.
Mirko PetersHOST
It is a normal plant.
Mirko PetersHOST
It still works.
Mirko PetersHOST
But the meaning usually lives outside the protocol, in a drawing, a spreadsheet, or the memory of the engineer who commissioned the line.
Mirko PetersHOST
Profinet operates close to the control world, where predictable communication and device behavior matter.
Mirko PetersHOST
MQTT works differently.
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Florian KoenigGUEST
So, of course, connection-wise, it's quite special because I see now, let's say, in automation industrial, it's now common Ethernet, I would say, is the way to go.
Florian KoenigGUEST
Ethernet, PROFINET, and so on.
Florian KoenigGUEST
It's like nothing between it.
Florian KoenigGUEST
Then you have, of course, IO protocols like here, let's say, IO-Link and so on.
Mike BassadorHOST
OK.
Mike BassadorHOST
For an OEM building machines that may use, say, different PLC and network platforms, depending on the customer, PROFINET, PROFISAFE for one machine, EtherCAT, FSOE for another, and potentially Ethernet IP, SIP safety for another.
Mike BassadorHOST
How should the controls engineer approach the safety architecture so the machine, so that the design remains as standardized and reusable as possible? Good luck.
Sneha MahajanGUEST
Yeah, yeah.