June 4, 2013
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 to be sure; the role of enabler. But there is more to functional safety than just PROFIsafe. Starting at the beginning, how do you determine what actions your safety system should take? For that answer and many others, watch the movie:
[Thinking of PROFIsafe as an enabling technology: Much of what PROFIBUS and PROFINET do stays in the background. This led me to call our technologies the “Fifth Beatle of Automation” in PROFINET is not a Star.]
–Carl Henning