What is PROFIBUS?

PROFIBUS is the world's leading fieldbus with cost-saving solutions in factory automation and process automation plus safety, drives, and motion control coverage. This fieldbus approach produces significant cost savings in design, installation, and maintenance expenses over the old approach of point-to-point wiring. Openness and standardization guarantee the supply of PROFIBUS products from many different vendors as well as the availability of know-how and support from many different experts close to you. With more than 13,000,000 nodes installed there are significantly more PROFIBUS nodes installed than of any other fieldbus. Work proceeds as about 400 engineers in 40 Working Groups continue to advance the state-of-the-art, adapting to the ever-changing automation landscape.

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