RTConnect PROFINET Enablement Module
The easiest way to add PROFINET to your serial device. Modernizing your product no longer requires a long or complicated product redesign. The PROFINET enablement module allows you to easily add PROFINET to any existing device with a serial port with a simple PCB alteration.
This protocol capability is powered by the RTConnect Module, a 6-in-1 industrial protocol enablement module.
Standard Unit Price
$148.00*
*Initial development and one time set-up fee not included.
RTConnect PROFINET Enablement Module
Add PROFINET to Your Device with Zero Firmware Changes
- Add PROFINET to your device with the RTConnect embedded communication module, providing built-in flexibility to pivot and capture new industrial automation markets as your product demand grows
- Accelerate time-to-market with a plug-and-play PROFINET module that streamlines the protocol integration process
- Reduce space constraints with a small-footprint hardware solution designed for high-density layouts and tight enclosures
- Minimize development and certification time with pre-conformance support from RTA
- Add wireless communication to your device with full 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi
- Streamline end-user deployment with a browser-based configuration interface that requires no external software downloads
- Get expert Enginerd support from inception to launch from a trusted protocol partner
Focus on Your Product. Let Us Handle the Connectivity.
Why OEMs Choose the RTConnect Module Over In-House Development
| In-House Development | RTConnect Module |
|---|---|
| 6-12 months of development time | Ready in weeks |
| Complex, ongoing firmware maintenance | Zero firmware changes |
| Risky certification process | Pre-conformance support and documentation |
| High engineering overhead | Low-risk PCB drop-in |
| Reallocate R&D resources for support | Live Enginerd support from protocol experts |
| Limited PROFINET expertise | 30+ years of experience in industrial communication |
Access the European Automation Market With an Embedded PROFINET Module
Seamless Siemens PLC Integration
Gain access to the European market with native support for PROFINET, the preferred communication method for Siemens PLCs. The RTConnect Module offers a low-risk and fast-to-market hardware solution for adding PROFINET.
No PROFINET Expertise Required
Eliminate the need for in-house PROFINET experience. Simply design the RTConnect module into your hardware and let RTA handle the complexity of PROFINET, including data modeling, GSD files and supporting documentation, and comprehensive team training.
Simplified PI Compliance
Ensure your device passes PI certification the first time with a PROFINET module that is pre-tested in the RTA lab and proven in multiple successful device certifications each year.
Multi-Protocol Support Included
Support EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, OPC UA, BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP and MQTT with a single protocol module, allowing you to compete in the European market with PROFINET today while instantly expanding into new markets with no additional hardware, engineering costs or inventory SKUs.
Why Trust Real Time Automation As Your Protocol Partner?
PROFINET is built on standard Ethernet technologies and operates in real-time with high-speed message exchanges that are critical to overall operations. Traditional Ethernet hardware and software can define a network that structures the task of exchanging data, alarms and diagnostics with programmable controllers.
RTA helps you modernize your devices with the PROFINET protocol, powered by the RTConnect Module. While there are certainly other companies offering industrial connectivity solutions, no one provides the level of support and service that you receive from Real Time Automation.
- Total protocol lifecycle support
- Talk to a live person from our Wisconsin-based headquarters every time you call
- Receive honest answers and recommendations from our sales team
- Get live Enginerd support that provides timely issue resolution without opening tickets or 24-hour wait times
Why Partner With RTA?
What Are My Next Steps?
Call a member of our team to talk through your particular application needs and explore how the RTConnect Module can be integrated into your product. We can even schedule a webinar with you and/or your team to walk through the module and development process.
What our Customers are Saying
“The 435NBA is an excellent serial to EtherNet interface to an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC. We had our barcode scanner up and running within a day with your tech support. Great web interface makes it easy. We will be using more of these in the future.”
Jeff K.
"Industrial automation domain experts – the guys who build a lot of valves, pumps, drives, etc,, and need a way to talk to their devices – will find their Modbus champion in John Rinaldi. The author has almost as much shop floor experience as Modbus itself, the 40 years it’s been (and remains) the sole open source electronic networking protocol for connecting automation systems. John brings his trademark passion for, and quirky treatment of, all things industrial automation, to Modbus in the 21st Century. Internet of Things? OPC UA? All good – but automation engineers for whom small, simple, cheap, fast solutions will suffice will walk away from this book joining John in declaring ‘Hail Modbus! Modbus forever!"
Heather A. / Writer, Editor & Content Strategist
