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Controls Product Brief
| January 31, 2003

Open safety network

Sick (Minneapolis&#44 MN)&#44 Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee&#44 WI)&#44 and Omron Corp. (Schaumburg&#44 IL) are collaborating on the development of an open protocol for safety communications.
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The protocol will be an extension of the existing common standard protocol found in DeviceNet and Ethernet/IP. Will allow both standard and safety devices to operate on the same network. It will also allow safety devices to seamlessly communicate across standard DeviceNet and Ethernet/IP networks to other safety devices without additional programming.

SOURCE: http://www.packworld.com/controls/benefit/open-safety-network