Digi-key News

DIGI-KEY INTRODUCES POWER FOCUS CAMPAIGN WITH MEAN WELL TO PROVIDE POWER SUPPLY SOLUTIONS

Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world’s largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, has introduced a power focus campaign with MEAN WELL to provide a broader range of configurable power supply solutions to their customers. MEAN WELL offers modular power supplies to support the need for low-volume and custom-power requirements in medical and industrial markets. With this partnership and others, Digi-Key continues to lead the power supply market with its broad range of products and inventory.

Rohde & Schwarz

Rohde & Schwarz partners with UNH-IOL to enhance high-speed Ethernet and InfiniBand compliance testing

By combining the UNH-IOL’s expertise in cable assembly and backplane compliance tests with Rohde & Schwarz test solutions, both partners are paving the way for automated compliance tests in line with the latest IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and InfiniBand standards.

FAULHABER GROUP

Thermal imaging to break the chain of infection

The corona pandemic has clearly demonstrated to the whole world just what a highly contagious virus can do. Tourists and travellers have unintentionally contributed to the spread of the disease. Detecting infected persons on arrival at airports is key in breaking a potential chain of infection. Here, thermal imaging cameras can make a decisive contribution. Motors from FAULHABER help these cameras capture precise images and measurement values in a fraction of a second.

Softing Industrial Automation GmbH

Security for Industrie 4.0

Seamless, secure data exchange for the integration of production and management levels

ODVA

CIP SECURITY ENHANCED TO SUPPORT RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED ETHERNET/IP DEVICES

ODVA is pleased to announce that CIP SecurityTM, the cybersecurity network extension for EtherNet/IPTM, has added support for resource-constrained EtherNet/IP devices. CIP Security can now provide device authentication, a broad trust domain, device identity via Pre-Shared Keys (PSKs), device integrity, and data confidentiality for resource-constrained devices such as contactors and push-buttons. Additionally, a narrow trust domain, user authentication, and policy enforcement via a gateway or a proxy are available options.

ODVA

ETHERNET/IP NETWORK EXTENDED TO IN-CABINET RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED DEVICES

ODVA announced today that The EtherNet/IP Specification has been enhanced to allow vendors to bring the network to resource-constrained devices in-cabinet, including push buttons and contactors. Cost, size, and power restrictions have historically limited the usage of EtherNet/IP at the edge, where many nodes are still hardwired. However, the continued decrease in the cost of semiconductor chips has enabled increased connectivity of simple devices, as evidenced by the rapid expansion of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The sustained, strong growth of EtherNet/IP combined with accelerating IT/OT convergence has made it possible to deploy EtherNet/IP within cabinets on lower-level automation devices such as contactors and push buttons.

ODVA

ODVA UPDATES TERMINOLOGY IN SPECIFICATIONS TO HELP CREATE A MORE INCLUSIVE INDUSTRY

ODVA announces that the April 2021 publication of the DeviceNet® and ControlNet® Specifications have replaced the usage of the words “master” and “slave” within ODVA references. Developers of devices for ODVA networks will now utilize the words “client and server” (EtherNet/IP, including the integration of Modbus® devices), “controller and device” (DeviceNet), and “system time supervisor or active keeper” (ControlNet) to describe these functions. With the goal of eliminating terminology that is hurtful, these changes are the first in a series to update the entire library of ODVA specifications and documents to rectify the use of these terms.

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