Moxa has expanded its Red Dot award-winning product family with the addition of the SDS-3016 series. The new smart switch includes Gigabit uplink, eight additional ports and an easy-to-configure industrial automation (IA)-profile that allows automation engineers to quickly process the increasing amounts of data within the smart manufacturing industry.
Source: MoxaAutomation engineers are increasingly putting more emphasis on the underlying health of their networks to ensure that reliable plant operations are maintained. This is often achieved by monitoring data and the network status from supervisory control and data acquisition/human-machine interfaces, allowing automation engineers to prevent network downtime.
"We decided to develop the SDS-3000 series industrial smart switches with the 3-2-1 design to simplify industrial communications. There are three pre-configured IA protocols, two installation methods, and a one-page dashboard for easy configuration. The new SDS-3016 series includes an additional rotary-coded DIP (dual in-line package)-switch, which is located on the bottom of the device, to allow engineers to perform profile-based settings quickly without using a web browser,” noted Elsa Liu, product manager at Moxa.
The smart switch was specifically designed for IA engineers and automation machine builders. The switch only includes the functions IA engineers and automation machine builders need, and importantly, does not require them to have IT-based network management skills. The device is ideal for the manufacturing industry, especially for machine builders who are embracing the industrial internet of things and Industry 4.0.
