Factory Automation

Industry 4.0 - fourth industrial revolution

The rise of new digital industrial technology allows you to trim costs, boost profits, and fuel growth. Parker's smart technology helps you manage and optimize aspects of your manufacturing processes.

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Factory Automation

Factory Automation represents the products of today’s smart factory. The products and ideas are forward thinking and relevant to the manufacturer’s desire for reliable control, while delivering immediate and predictive diagnostics. Parker’s Factory Automation products are global products for the global community, and provide the connectivity and networking demanded by controls specialists.

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[Blog] Manufacturers are forming their own ideas and interpretations of what a ‘smart factory’ is and what they want it to do for them. But a common need is for critical components to have additional intelligence, enabling machine-to-machine communication and interaction.

[Blog] IO-Link is a point-to-point communication technology that can be implemented into most PLC configurations or integrated into most existing industrial Ethernet and fieldbus networks via a device called an IO-Link master.

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