Transparent Ready® Automation
Standards and Infrastructure

Select components from multiple vendors and construct a
seamless system.

Ethernet
It’s fast, cost effective and reliable. Designed for the factory floor, Industrial Ethernet has helped construct open networks that no longer face bandwidth restrictions and bring the benefits of IP to the factory floor.

TCP/IP
TCP/IP is the Internet standard as well as the global networking standard for all computing needs. It’s optimal flexibility allows it to act as a carrier for HTTP, Modbus®, FTP and many other protocols.

Modbus®
The industry’s serial de facto standard since 1979, Modbus continues to enable millions of automation devices to communicate. Today, support for the simple and elegant structure of Modbus continues to grow. The Internet community has adopted Modbus by giving it a reserved port on the TCP/IP stack.

FactoryCast™ embedded web servers
When a versatile, scaleable physical network (Ethernet) is combined with a vendor neutral data representation (Modbus), the result is a truly open, accessible network. A network so powerful it can exchange process data right down to the sensor level. Schneider Electric continues to pioneer open standards with the world’s first automation embedded web server.

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