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Dec 10 2008

Asset Management Convergence

loading… Two diverse newsletters recently converged in my email inbox to make me think about asset management. The first one was an e-newsletter from Chemical Processing magazine.  (I’m not sure how I got on their mailing list, but once in a while I see something germane to PROFIBUS and PROFINET.) “The Asset Management Benchmark Report:…

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Dec 9 2008

More Long Beach Process Q & A

loading… Belatedly here are more of the questions and comments from the Long Beach PROFIBUS in the Process Industry one-day training class.  I started this three weeks ago promising I would get to these in a day or so.  Turned out to be “or so.”  Here’s a question, some praise, and some criticism… Need exceptional…

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Dec 9 2008

Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

loading… I love graphs.   Clicking on an article in a recent email newsletter brought me to “The Wireless Hype in Process Automation” by Dieter Schaudel at ControlGlobal.com.  The wireless part hooked me, but the graph of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies really grabbed me.  It takes us from the Technology Trigger over the…

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Dec 5 2008

SPS Drives 2008 Report: Wrap-up

loading… As usual many organizations, including PI, used the show for press conferences and press releases.  There were some interesting product releases, some news from us (although little from competing fieldbuses), much networking, and a little weirdness (more on that later). I’ve already referred you to all our press releases but one.  Next year the…

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Dec 4 2008

SPS Drives 2008 Report: Visiting Other Booths

loading… The further adventures in SPS/Drives land wherein our intrepid blogger ventures out of the comfortable region of PROFIthis and PROFIthat to the far frontiers of SPS/Drives land.  (Said intrepid blogger returned home to develop a monster cold – annoying when daytime temperatures are in the mid-70s.  His writing skills may have been adversely affected…

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Dec 3 2008

SPS Drives 2008 Report: IO-Link

loading… I’ve previously described IO-Link as HART for discrete.  IO-Link was widely displayed at this year’s show.  For more explanation, how it fits with PROFIBUS and PROFINET, reports, photos, and video, click here.

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Dec 2 2008

SPS Drives 2008 Report: PROFINET News

loading… There were three topics that stood out regarding PROFINET at the SPS/Drives Show: 1. Fast startup 2. Automatic addressing 3. Performance improvements

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Dec 1 2008

SPS Drives 2008 Report: 10 Years of PROFIsafe

loading… While competing fieldbuses struggle to add functional safety, PROFIsafe celebrated its 10th anniversary at SPS/Drives.  PROFIsafe is also the only functional safety fieldbus technology that spans discrete, process, and motion control applications.

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Nov 26 2008

SPS/Drives 2008 First Impressions

loading… Day 1.  The show is crowded like always.  The PROFIBUS and PROFINET booth is crowded as well.  Lots of visitors, lots of vendors, lots of users, lots of displays.  The PROFINET wall has 117 devices on it – many more than the 80 some from the last show. I have not walked much of…

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Nov 22 2008

One-day Training Classes Conclude for 2008

loading… Saturday morning, flying east out of Phoenix on the first leg of my trip to the SPS/Drives show in Germany and from my window seat I have a great view of the dams and lakes on the Salt River.  And they’re full.  After our drought, this is a wonderful sight.  The Arizona scenery is…

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