POWERLINK is an Ethernet-based industrial field network system originally developed by B&R, an Austria-based supplier of industrial automation systems. Standard-compliant Ethernet frames, complete software solutions and the unique addressing system provide the open source POWERLINK field network with the flexibility required to handle multipurpose applications in strictly synchronous real-time systems. This allows the full range of functions to be used in parallel during operation without any reciprocal limitations.
500,000 POWERLINK systems have been installed since its launch in 2001. And as the only real-time industrial Ethernet system on the market, POWERLINK is not only able to claim system wide synchronicity in large plants - it can also prove it.