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Gigabit Modular Switch Now with Routing Function

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The Gigabit Modular Switch from Phoenix Contact now also supports the layer 3 function in order to route communications between individual subnetworks.

As industrial networks are becoming increasingly more complex, it makes sense to segment them and split them up into different networks in order to secure the appropriate level of data availability.

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Industrial PC Becomes a Control System

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Now, a standard industrial PC can handle any control task. The PC Worx RT Basic software PLC from Phoenix Contact transforms any industrial PC into a fully fledged control system. Programming, visualization, and control can therefore be combined in just one device.

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Experience with Inline Bus Couplers IOs

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Recently we just got an order of hundreds Modbus couplers. Since the configuration is made default factory settings, the customer requested our help to do the configuration for them.

Can you imagine hundreds of bus couplers to be set up?

You’ll need to power ON and OFF the bus couplers and set the registers that you need to change. But infact, the works were finished in just one day and there were more than 300 pieces of bus couplers to be configured! Thanks to the snap-in power connectors of the couplers itself; it does save time for us to connect the power to the device every time we need to change to the next coupler to be configured.

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