{"id":131497,"date":"2025-07-15T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/?post_type=products&#038;p=131497"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:02:44","slug":"lean-managed-ethernet-switches-economical-design","status":"publish","type":"products","link":"https:\/\/www.controleng.com\/products\/lean-managed-ethernet-switches-economical-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean managed Ethernet switches, economical design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AutomationDirect offers Wago lean managed industrial Ethernet switches that provide a cost-effective managed network solution. These switches integrate principles of lean manufacturing into their design and functionality, offering advantages such as waste reduction, improved efficiency and other features. A web-based interface and easy-to-use diagnostic tools reduce configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting time. Diverse communication protocol choices eliminate the need for specialized switches, useful for IIoT applications. VLAN support allows logical network segmentation, which improves traffic management and performance with efficient bandwidth use. Select models add MAC Security, which limits unauthorized network access, helps isolate traffic and improves overall network security without the need for expensive complex hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AutomationDirect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.automationdirect.com\/lean-managed-switches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.automationdirect.com\/lean-managed-switches<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edited by Mark T. 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