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Infographic: Do You Recommend, Specify or Purchase Ethernet Equipment?

Sept. 30, 2013
Survey Results Show 90% of Respondents Currently Do. Listed Here Are the Most Common Applications

An electronic survey of Industrial Networking readers was conducted in August 2013, in order to identify usage and application trends of industrial Ethernet among the magazine's readership.

90% of survey respondents currently recommend, purchase or specify industrial Ethernet equipment.

The following are the most common applications:

  • HMI to controller 69%
  • Controller to controller 69%
  • Machine control 61%
  • Maintenance and diagnostics 50%
  • Batch/Process control 49%
  • Electronic Drives 48%
  • Process Safety 36%
  • Device-level network 36%
  • Machine/Cell safety 34%
  • Front-office/enterprise integration 20%
  • Building environmental controls 16%
  • Physical/Perimeter Security 12%

Read all results from the survey.

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