It takes a village to raise a… standard, at least, an open standard.  In the case of PROFINET, that village consists of like-minded companies that recognize the benefits of working together towards a common, open standard.  What’s in it for… Read more »

In February of 2007, Safety the Movie debuted in Phoenix (post: Safety the Movie debuts in Phoenix).  In the PROFIBUS and PROFINET world when we think functional safety, we think PROFIsafe.  Yet PROFIsafe only ensures message delivery.  An important role… Read more »

This is a continuation from a recent post Go with the Network that Works with additional background to an article by Dan Hebert: Industrial Ethernet Cruises Powerfully Along in Industrial Networking. I like the subtitle in the print version: “Industrial… Read more »

I enjoy working with editors from the trade press – contributing to whatever topic they’re writing about.  Of course, they have limited space in which to present their topic and they have to include viewpoints from multiple sources.  Having neither… Read more »

The Infrastructure Conference?  No, it was The Automation Conference, but the Industrial Ethernet panel I was on spent a lot of time talking about infrastructure.  I was there representing PROFINET (and Industrial Ethernet protocols in general to some extent), but… Read more »

Fieldbuses are down and Industrial Ethernets are up?  Is that what a new IMS Research study shows (How Sustainable is an Industrial Fieldbus Infrastructure?)?  Or, as Larry O’Brien put it in his blog post (What’s in a Node? Putting Market… Read more »

I’m sure you’ve been wondering what a PROFINET one-day training class is like.  (Unless you’re one of the thousands of folks who have already attended one.)  Here’s what happens: Badge pickup and onsite registration begin early on class day, like… Read more »

After ranting just a little about PROFIpeople, I was called upon to introduce the international version of PROFInews.  I’ll repeat the introduction in the next PROFInews North American Edition.  And that introduction is about Hanover Fair so make that your… Read more »

PI was once again part of the Field Communication Lounge at Hanover Fair.  The Lounge covered almost 5,400 square feet and was shared with competing technologies, complementary technologies, and some that are both.  But let’s ignore them and look around… Read more »

PROFINET diagnostics are a huge differentiator for PROFINET.  Building on the concepts pioneered by PROFIBUS (at the device, module, and channel level), PROFINET adds diagnostics for the Industrial Ethernet network.  Because PROFINET is just Ethernet, it leverages IT protocols to… Read more »