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Integrated Ethernet technology claims to increase communication rates between PLCs and assembly line machines 10-fold.

An automation network technology that is claimed to increase communication rates between PLCs and their assembly line machines 10-fold is aiming to become an international industrial Ethernet standard.

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(CLPA) is making the technology available first to the Asian market before expanding internationally and taking on established rivals in Europe and the US.

Its product, CC-Link IE (Control and Communication Link Industrial Ethernet), the first completely integrated Ethernet with a one gigabit/sec signalling rate, can connect all levels of a manufacturing company — from the boardroom to sensors on the assembly line floor it is claimed.

The main difference between CC-Link IE and the current Asian standard CC-Link, developed by

, is the new version uses an Ethernet physical layer. The system developers say this will make the network easier and cheaper to configure and maintain.

three technologies have the main global share of machine-control networks. Profibus or its Ethernet version Profinet, developed by

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