Industrial Computing & Communications

The 2012 version of our Virtual Conference Industrial Computing & Communications provides an update about latest trends, solutions and products to create reliable communications within industrial environments.  Amongst others this virtual conference will give you market overviews about industrial PC and Industrial Ethernet; it will discuss the questions whether we need a cloud in Industrial Automation: it will introduce new Powerlink and new IO-Link solutions and you will learn how to protect embedded software.

Programme Overview

Industrial Communications

• Industrial Ethernet market overview – current status and future developments
• Powerlink - a leading protocol for Ethernet-hardware based real-time communication
• Robust Industrial Ethernet with PriorityChannel technology 
• All-in-one solutions for IO-Link integration
• PROFIBUS-DP interface integrated into low-power ARM Processor

Industrial Computing

• Industrial PC market overview – current status and future developments
• COM Express, QSeven, ARM – congatec’s highlights from SPS/IPC/Drives show
• Distributed systems with distributed intelligence
• COM-Express, Qseven and nanoRISC – MSC’s highlights from SPS/IPC/Drives show
• Seamless edge-to-core networks with solutions from Moxa

Windows Embedded

• Windows Embedded in Manufacturing
• Data Storage: from I/O to Cloud
• RTX hard real-time extension for Windows

FPGAs for Industrial Applications

• Introduction to Altera’s FPGA devices for industrial applications
• Xilinx FPGAs for industrial networking and motor control systems

Embedded Systems Design

• Protecting Embedded Software
• Smart efficiency - a must have in production today
• Speeding-up Embedded Systems Development