PROFINET and PROFIsafe Engineering Services

PROFINET is an open Industrial Ethernet communication standard for industrial applications such as factory, manufacturing and process automation. It enables data communication with deterministic cycle times and thus in real time. PROFIsafe is the protocol for safe data transmission for PROFINET and fulfils SIL 3 according to IEC 61508.

embeX is a long-standing member of PROFINET International (PI) or PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO)

Competencies

As a leading development service provider for embedded systems, embeX has considerable experience in field device development with PROFINET and PROFIsafe. We develop your gateways and PROFINET or PRPOFIsafe devices and support you from specification, hardware and software development to conformance tests. 

• Many years of experience in electronics development for factory and process automation
• Safety experts with Maturity Level 5 certified development process
• Experts in the development of devices for use in potentially explosive environments
• Experts in the field of embedded security

Technologies

• Use of different device ASICs and controllers:
  • Hilscher NetX52 and NetX 90
  • ERTEC
  • Renesas Tiger
  • Anybus NP40
  • TI Sitara based solutions
• Many years of experience in the use of multiprotocol and single-protocol solutions for PROFINET
• Integration of different PROFIsafe stacks (controller and device)
• Implementation for Conformance Class A, B, C (incl. IRT)