Quest Trend Magazine reports how the German Machinery Industry is changing to Ethernet-based field buses this year

Bochum, Germany, May 26, 2010 --(PR.com)-- It is the Ethernet-based field bus to which the machine-builders are changing this year.

48% of the change-willing machine-builders want to introduce ProfiNet, (Siemens) and 22% EtherCat (Beckhoff) at the machines this year. These changes take particularly place at expense of the classical, non Ethernet-based field buses such as Profibus (Siemens) or CAN.

Regarding Powerlink (B&R), Sercos III, DeviceNet and in-house solutions of the machine-builders a differentiated picture shows up.

The readiness of the machine-builders to make changes at the automation technology of the machines is high this year. 70% of the machine-builders aim for such changes compared with 72% last year.

Field buses are on the centre of the change-ready machine-builders’ interest. Almost each second of these machine-builders (43%) will change the field buses at the machines in the suggested manner.

The Quest Trend Magazine Online publishes these actual change trends on http://www.quest-trendmagazin.de/Trend-to-Ethernet-based-field.104.0.html?&L=1

The trends from the users’ point of view are based on market surveys of Quest TechnoMarketing, Bochum, London, with the title “What the machine-builders want to change in the automation technology 2010”. This survey was carried out in January/February and covered scarcely 250 representative machine-builders. Highlight, table of contents and budget of the study are on http://www.qtm.de/e/index_marketstudies_free.html

Quest TechnoMarketing is specialised in market surveys regarding the automation technology for more than 20 years and is the publisher of the Quest Trend Magazine.

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