payloads up to 64 byte, is the base for
CANopen FD lling the gap between
Classical CAN and Industrial Ethernet.Mike Freund, managing director at
Rittal North America (www.rittal.us),
Automation is driving
industrial and IT industries toward
greater ef ciency in production, energy
usage and operations. In addition to
automating our own manufacturing
processes, Rittal is partnering with
OEMs, integrators, distributors and end
users to drive more ef ciency through
the entire value chain. The overall
end-user automation strategy to
improve plant ef ciency is really
driving our customers to look from the
design stage all the way through
manufacturing on the factory- oor
level. Rittal is uniquely positioned to
help return their focus to their business
and their bottom line.How does the Industrial
Internet of Things gure in
your business strategy?
Robert S. Grzib, marketing manager at
CDM Electronics (www.cdmelectron-
ics.com), As a supplier of
component-level interconnects and
value-added solutions, CDM needs to
address requirements demanded by our
customers’ most recent developments
— namely, the equipment and devices
themselves. Relative to our business
strategy, this affects our product mix
and inventory patterns on a number of
levels, not the least of which being the
management of ever-increasing lead
times for some types of circular
interconnects vital to IoT. As such, we’ve
needed to shift some of our conventional
product management protocols to
successfully adapt.Mike Freund, managing director at
Rittal North America (www.rittal.us),
One of the great things aboutbeing with a company like Rittal is that
Internet of Things and Industrial
Internet of Things isn’t new to us. RittalCD1905_16_25_MachineInput.indd 21 4/30/19 9:38 AM