netX 90 communication controller mounted on a circuit board.
empowering communication

Technology

Thanks to our products, machines around the world are able to communicate with each other. Always included: our know-how and our netX communication controllers. The flexibility of netX technology is unique on the market, enabling reliable communication in countless production plants.
But it's our firmware that makes our chips what they are: a multi-protocol communication solution that takes your equipment's connectivity to the next level.
Our IoT ecosystem netFIELD is a direct application of these two technologies. With netFIELD, we make Industry 4.0 possible and bring your solutions to the cloud with our expertise.

Our technology at a glance

netX 90 communication controller mounted on a circuit board.

Overview of our netX communication controllers. As a highly integrated solution, they allow you to flexibly integrate your machines and production systems into your network regardless of the network standard. We provide hardware, software, certification and support from a single source.

Hilscher offers hardware and software for industrial communication tasks from a single source. Our protocol stacks make your netX the most flexible communication solution on the market. Find out more in our overview.

Hilscher netPI Edge Gateway in use.

An overview of our Managed Industrial IoT platform: netFIELD is your IIoT edge infrastructure for implementing Industry 4.0 solutions. It enables you to make your machine data accessible and the necessary software and hardware centrally manageable.

Hilscher technology in action – our latest success stories

A picture of the inside of a Hanwha factory with a large AGV. On the left side is the Hanwha logo on white background.

The Korean robot and AGV specialist Hanwha Robotics controls AGV drives in CANopen networks for semiconductor production with Hilscher's netHOST controller gateway. Read more in our Success Story!

A picture of a factory control room with several workstations and large displays hanging from above. The Yokogawa logo is displayed on the right side.

Yokogawa Electric, a leading company in integrated plant production control systems, has implemented S2 redundancy for their PROFINET IO controller by adopting Hilscher's comX embedded module, thereby improving the operation rate of the plant.

A white Kawasaki robot in a procution facility. The More Robots logo on a white background on the left side.

What needs to be done if a robot is to be integrated into an existing automation environment, but they speak different languages? Then a gateway is used to ensure secure data transmission - in this application implemented by robotics specialist More Robots from Austria from POWERLINK to Ethernet/IP with Hilscher's netTAP gateway.

Numerous empy vials lined up in a production machine. The first vial is illuminated by a small glimmer of light.



An Indian technology company, specializing in the design, development and manufacture of tailor-made automation solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, connects optical inspections systems for medicinal vials using Hilscher's cifX 50E-RE PC card for PROFINET. Read more!

Three black and silver devices on a white background. CODA is written on the devices in large red letters.

Orange Precision Measurement implements PROFINET, EtherCAT, and EtherNet/IP as well as DeviceNet using Hilscher's netX 90 multiprotocol communication controller, enabling the American manufacturer of precision measurement tools to supply its products to various customers.