Thomas Mauer is a system engineer in the factory automation and control team, with a focus on industrial communication and industrial PCs, at Texas Instruments in Freising, Germany. He’s responsible for developing reference-design solutions for the industrial segment. He has extensive experience in industrial communications like Industrial Ethernet and fieldbuses and industrial applications, including synchronization and clocking over industrial Ethernet. Mauer earned an electrical engineering degree (Dipl. Ing. (FH)) at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany.