industrial//industrial Ethernet//CC-Link IE

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

The industrial Ethernet of the Mitsubishi Electric ecosystem, successor of the serial CC-Link fieldbus, 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.