industrial//industrial communication//industrial Ethernet//CC-Link IE

CC-Link IE is the industrial Ethernet of the Mitsubishi Electric ecosystem, successor of the serial CC-Link fieldbus and widespread in Japanese and Asian machinery. It offers gigabit bandwidth with deterministic cyclic exchange for control.

CC-Link IE is the industrial Ethernet of the Mitsubishi Electric ecosystem, successor of the serial CC-Link fieldbus and widespread in Japanese and Asian machinery. It offers gigabit bandwidth with deterministic cyclic exchange for control.

It belongs to the same story as PROFINET and EtherNet/IP: a large vendor with its own PLCs, drives and robots, its own control network, and integrators who speak it (industrial Ethernet, automation vendor). A plant that buys a Mitsubishi packaging line and a Siemens process line ends up bridging the two.