Archive for November 2008

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 the…

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 spectacular…

If you did not make it to the PROFINET one-day training class in Oak Brook, IL you can see a report from Mark Hoske of Control Engineering in his article, “Industrial Ethernet advantages using Profinet protocol.” During the portion that Mark reports on, there was a really excellent observation.  One of the device manufacturers reported…

Seems like I just blogged about the Louisville PROFINET one-day training class, but since then I’ve been to Tampa (PROFINET), Denver (PROFIBUS), and Long Beach (AS-i).  And now I’m writing this on the plane to the final PROFINET one-day training event of the year (Chicago for PROFINET and a PROFINET Developer Workshop).  My colleagues are…

Here is the first of 5 or 6 reports from the SPS/Drives Show in Germany.  The blog software does not make it easy to embed photos or video so check out the report here.