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Abstract

An industrial or manufacturing communication system and devices typically used in an industrial environment including several industrial devices such as work stations wherein a work station power distribution line runs along side the work flow or conveyor line, with individual data units connected between the individual work stations and the power distribution line, and further includes a similar connection by a data unit between a process controller and the power distribution line, wherein a selective flow of data is provided between and/or among the individual work stations and/or a workstation and the process controller. Further embodiments include the powering of the data units from power derived from the power distribution line(s), and integration and/or embedding some or all of the communications elements of the present invention into the structure, e.g. circuit boards, of the workstations and other devices connected to primary and/or secondary power lines.

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First Claim