July 2023
Digital Technology
Safe digitization down to the field level
Ethernet-APL (advanced physical layer) brings the benefits of digital communication to harsh environments of the process industry at the field level.
The Author
Stefan Ditting is a Product Manager at HIMA with more than 4 yr of practical experience as an Application Engineer and 2 yr as a trainer before moving into product management. His responsibilities include the compact SIL3 controllers HIMatrix and industrial communication. In this context, he actively began his work in the field of automation security in 2006. Besides several publications in in professional journals and congress papers, he actively works on different security committees like DKE/UK931.1 and VDMA. Ditting graduated with a degree in electrical engineering (specializing in automation) at the BA Stuttgart.
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