FoundryNet / Protocols / PROFINET / S7
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PROFINET / S7 → one canonical schema

Forge reads PROFINET / S7 from 6 OEM families and emits the same canonical JSON for every one of them. No per-vendor parser, no per-vendor schema.

6OEM families
366canonical fields
16,908curated mappings
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Add PROFINET / S7 to your agent

One MCP endpoint serves every protocol adapter — there is no per-protocol URL to configure.

# add Forge to your agent — one endpoint for all 14 protocols, PROFINET / S7 included
claude mcp add --transport http forge https://mcp.foundrynet.io/mcp \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_FORGE_KEY'
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Coverage

6 OEM families speaking PROFINET / S7

Each links to its own mapping reference with vendor-specific tag shapes.

OEMVerticalProtocolsCoverageMapped
ABB Roboticsindustrial robotOPC UA EtherNet/IP PROFINET / S7 ROS 2 (DDS)99%11 fields
KUKAindustrial robotOPC UA ROS 2 (DDS) PROFINET / S7 EtherNet/IP99%11 fields
Siemens SinumerikCNC / machine toolOPC UA PROFINET / S7 MTConnect99%17 fields
Fanuc Roboticsindustrial robotEtherNet/IP PROFINET / S7 ROS 2 (DDS)95%11 fields
Kawasaki Roboticsindustrial robotEtherNet/IP ROS 2 (DDS) PROFINET / S791%11 fields
Stäubliindustrial robotOPC UA ROS 2 (DDS) PROFINET / S791%11 fields

Mappings

Real PROFINET / S7 tags, normalized

Sampled from the live corpus — one example per vendor, so you can see the same canonical field arriving from different raw tag shapes.

Raw tag inCanonical field outSource
CJointT.rax_1: 42.7robot.joint.position: 42.7ABB Robotics
$AXIS_ACT.A1: 88.2robot.joint.position: 88.2KUKA
/Channel/Spindle/actSpeed: 6000spindle_speed_rpm: 6000Siemens Sinumerik
J1_pos: 30.5robot.joint.position: 30.5Fanuc Robotics
joint_1_deg: 37.4robot.joint.position: 37.4Kawasaki Robotics
joint_1_deg: 37.4robot.joint.position: 37.4Stäubli

Canonical fields

What PROFINET / S7 sources map into

The fields most commonly emitted by these 6 OEMs. The full schema is open source: FoundryNet/canonical-schema (MIT).

robot.joint.currentrobot.joint.effortrobot.joint.positionrobot.joint.temperaturerobot.joint.velocityrobot.moderobot.payloadrobot.safety.status_bitsrobot.tcp.forcerobot.tcp.poserobot.tcp.speedalarm_code


Related

Verticals using PROFINET / S7

industrial robot CNC / machine tool

Other protocols: BACnet/IP EtherNet/IP HTTP / REST J1939 (CAN) MQTT Sparkplug B MTConnect Modbus TCP OPC UA ROS 2 (DDS)

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