Comms layer brings control systems together

A novel transparent communication layer offers a flexible and open solution for heterogeneous automation control systems allowing interconnection between these systems or even to a superior system.

A transparent communication layer offers a flexible and open solution for heterogeneous automation control systems allowing interconnection between these systems or even to a superior system.

A close look inside process automation highlights the use of many different, mostly incompatible systems and products.

Up to now special solutions for connecting these systems have been necessary.

But now Pro-DX, the transparent communication layer from ETM, offers a flexible and open solution for heterogeneous systems allowing interconnection between these systems or even to a superior system.

Pro-DX is not a protocol, nor is it an interface; rather it is a complete solution with existing methodologies for interconnecting heterogeneous systems.

A rigorous simplified interconnection based on a standard communication using XML via TCP/IP is what makes Pro-DX a unique data and event transport solution.

Once engineered is is a highly flexible and secure solution.

The Pro-DX concept is based on a standardised software node installed on each computer and working as a complete function unit.

All the nodes together comprise the Pro-DX network which, similar to the layers in the OSI model, takes over all basic functions such as automatic data-match, store and forward and redundancy.

After being parameterised Pro-DX works in the background meaning that data and messages are transmitted automatically without intervention.

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