MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – June 13, 2019 – Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and Pepperl+Fuchs’ official North American IO-Link competence center, is announcing a new product family within its DeviceMaster® industrial gateway lineup. DeviceMaster EIP-MOD gateways allow communication between EtherNet/IP controllers and Modbus master controllers.
Read MoreMannheim / Minneapolis - January 30, 2019 - Pepperl+Fuchs, a leading developer of industrial automation technology, has acquired the business of Comtrol Corporation. To ensure that Comtrol customers will be able to source products and conduct business as usual, a new company, Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol Inc., has been established. Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol Inc. remains located in Minneapolis.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – November 27, 2018 — Comtrol Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, today announces continued embedded support for the OPC-UA protocol and now supports MQTT integration into its IO-Link family of products.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – April 21, 2017 — Comtrol Corporation, a manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, today announced the availability of OPC-UA support with its MultiLink™ technology on its IO-Link Master family of products.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – April 24, 2017 — Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, announces today at Hannover Messe that they implemented Microsoft Azure’s IoT Gateway SDK on all Comtrol’s IO-Link Masters.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – November 22, 2016 -- Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, today announced support for Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) across its full line of PROFINET IO-Link Master products.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – April 11, 2016 -- Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, today announced it has released three new IO-Link Masters for PROFINET at Hannover Messe. The newest additions to the Comtrol line of IO-Link Master products, the4-PNIO (4-Port IP67), 8-PNIO (8-Port IP67) and DR-8-PNIO (8-Port IP20 DIN rail) support the IO-Link 1.1 standard for full IO-Link device compatibility. The IO-Link Master PROFINET (PNIO) series combines the benefits of the IO-Link standard with PROFINET. You can easily integrate the IO-Link Master into an industrial network with existing and new PROFINET IO installations using Comtrol’s powerful web interface and Siemens TIA Portal. In addition, these new products are PROFINET certified by Profinet International (PI) ensuring PROFINET compatibility.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – February 18th, 2016 – Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device communication products, will be attending the Axis AE Technology Summit. The event will be held in Coronado, California at the Coronado Island Marriot Resort and Spa from Wednesday February 24th at 6:00 PM to Saturday the 27th at 8:00 PM PT.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – January 21st, 2016 – Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products will be attending the Mobotrex Minnesota User’s Group Meeting. Comtrol’s Traffic Sales Representative, Katya Lee will be leading a classroom session to discuss our innovative technology for the traffic community. Highlighted in the session will be Comtrol’s RocketLinx Industrial Ethernet and Power over Ethernet switches.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – February 26, 2015 – Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, today announced the release of the IO-Link Master DR-8-EIP for industrial IO-Link sensor and actuator connectivity. The newest addition to the Comtrol line of IO-Link Master products, the DR-8-EIP, enables plug and play communication of up to eight intelligent IO-Link devices to EtherNet/IP™ and Modbus TCP networks deployed across factory and industrial environments.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – December 18, 2014 – Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, today announced the release of new editions to its family of RocketLinx industrial grade switches. In addition to the rugged design and enhanced reliability characterized by the Comtrol RocketLinx brand, the new RocketLinx ES8105-XT and ES8108-XT industrial Ethernet switch lines feature UL-certified compliance with the NEC Class I Division 2 (CID2) classification. The stringent CID2 rating certifies these RocketLinx switch models for operation in environments such as oil and gas refineries and tank storage facilities where explosive gases may be present under abnormal circumstances.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - October 23, 2014 - Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products and the official North American IO-Link Competency Center, today announced the release of the IO-Link Master 4-EIP for industrial sensor connectivity. Comtrol’s IO-Link Master combines the benefits of IO-Link sensor communication with EtherNet/IP™ and Modbus TCP industrial Ethernet protocols. The IO-Link Master connects intelligent IO-Link sensors and actuators to the factory network while effectively shielding PLC programmers from IO-Link complexities. This results in simplified EtherNet/IP™ and Modbus TCP interfaces, which decrease system development time and installation efforts.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – September 11, 2014 – Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, today officially released the DeviceMaster UP 16 Modbus, the newest member of the DeviceMaster UP family of industrial gateways and the industry’s first 16-port high-density Modbus gateway. Featuring Comtrol’s highly advanced Modbus Router firmware, this gateway provides robust connectivity options for environments including, factory, warehouse, energy, oil and gas, and transportation where the Modbus protocol is widely used for device and industrial network communications.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – March 20, 2014 – Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, today released the DeviceMaster LT16, a highly secure, compact device server for easy integration of serial communication devices into LAN, Internet, or cloud-based systems.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — February 4, 2014 — Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, announced the release of the RocketLinx ES7206-XT Power over Ethernet switch. Comtrol’s unmanaged ES7206-XT contains four Gigabit IEEE 802.3af/at PoE ports, one Gigabit copper uplink port, and one Gigabit SFP uplink port supporting multi-mode or single-mode fiber connections. Featuring Voltage Boost technology, the ES7206-XT enables direct 12-36 VDC input supporting vehicle, building, and factory power systems while delivering reliable power to PoE devices.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — January 14, 2014 — Comtrol Corporation today announced that its RocketLinx ES8509-XT industrial Gigabit Ethernet switch passed IPv6 conformance testing and now carries the IPv6 Ready Logo indicating full compliance with IPv6 networking standards. As of January 2014, Comtrol’s complete line of managed RocketLinx switches includes support for IPv6, the replacement for the current IPv4 Internet protocol. IPv6 improves both security and performance while responding to the immediate shortage of IPv4 addresses. The ES8509-XT is the first in Comtrol’s RocketLinx series to be tested and awarded the IPv6 Ready Logo for compliance with the IPv6 core protocols.
Read MoreDecember 2013- Turn to page seven of the December edition of the Process Engineering Control and Maintenance magazine to view the product spotlight on our IO-Link EIP-4 master gateway.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — November 21, 2013 — Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device connectivity products, today announced the release of the RocketLinx® ES8508-XT series of industrial managed Ethernet switches. The introduction of this new 8-port switch series extends Comtrol’s popular RocketLinx line of industrial Ethernet switches by providing the convenience of both copper and integrated fiber Ethernet ports in a compact, extended temperature range switch ideally suited for deployment in factory, traffic and railway applications.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - July 23, 2013 - Comtrol Corporation today announced the release of the RocketLinx ACS7106, the first UL294B listed PoE switch designed for the access control market.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - May 22, 2013 - Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device communication products, today announced the release of PortVision DX management software for its DeviceMaster and RocketLinx lines of industrial communication products.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — April 09, 2013 — Comtrol Corporation, a leading manufacturer of industrial device communication products, today announces the official partnership with Axis Communications.
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