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Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-21

PROFINET

Real-time industrial Ethernet from PI (RT and IRT).

PROFIBUS & PROFINET International's industrial Ethernet: RT over standard switches for millisecond control, IRT with scheduled hardware-assisted cycles for motion. Conformance classes A–D describe device capability; PROFIdrive, PROFIenergy, and PROFIsafe extend it.

See also: TSN · EtherNet/IP · Functional safety

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