The transformation from technology to engineering to product requires cooperation: WAGO has been a member of the Single Pair Ethernet System Alliance (SPESA) since September 2022 to bundle strengths. This platform is one on which a wide variety of manufacturers want to implement and advance the technology together with their respective market access points.

The focus of the cross-company collaboration is on the user and their use cases: “For users, it is important that the benefits of the technology are worked out and made known. We want to be in the front row,” says Henkel. WAGO’s task now is taking this exact step with SPESA to create an interoperable, manufacturer-independent overall system for customers and jointly advance Industry 4.0.

The same applies to industry as well as to building automation. The SPESA members Belimo, Thermokon and WAGO therefore discussed the success factors of SPE in building automation and jointly listed these in a position paper.