Industrial Ethernet Survey
The PTO encourages you to take the Industrial Ethernet Survey being sponsored by PTO member Network Vision. The short survey will help all of us in the automation networking world understand users
PROFItech PROFINET Certified Network Engineering Class
The May PROFINET Certified Network Engineering class has reached capacity. Add your name to the wait list by registering here.
Blogging about PROFIBUS and PROFINET
For up-to-the-minute news from events that effect PROFIBUS and PROFINET, visit the new PROFIblog. Reports from National Manufacturing Week and from various PTO one-day training events are already blogged. And we will have some observations of the usage of fieldbuses, specific insights into PROFIBUS and PROFINET, and more. You will also find links to other…
PTO Hosts Key International Meeting
The PTO will host the annual international meeting of PROFIBUS International (PI). The meeting will be held in Sonoma, California in June. This annual gathering brings together the 25 Regional PROFIBUS Associations (RPAs) from around the globe, to discuss items of mutual interest and exchange information.
PROFInews North American Edition Issue 7 has been released
You can read the current issue here. Sign up for the newsletter here or use the RSS feed here to be notified of the publication of a new issue.
PROFI Interface Center Presents PROFINET Training
The Profi Interface Center (PIC) is presenting a series of special hands-on training events in Toronto and Montreal. The PIC is the certified North American PROFINET Competence Center and the certified North American PROFINET Test Lab. Each full-day of training includes a morning of instructor presentation followed by an afternoon of hands-on experience. Topics covered:…
New PROFItech Classes Announced
The Profi Interface Center and the PTO announce additions to the PROFItech program for 2006. Two additional classes have been added: PROFIBUS Installer
Karsten Schneider leads the PIC
Karsten Schneider recently took the helm as leader of the Profi Interface Center (PIC). Karsten
PTO people
Filomena Wardzel, Automation Solutions Manager, Siemens Energy & Automation, has been appointed to the board of directors of the PROFIBUS Trade Organization (PTO). Wardzel joined Siemens Energy & Automation in 2000 and oversees the company
A new fieldbus name in North America
A Board of Directors Meeting held during the PTO General Assembly meeting saw the PROFIBUS Trade Organization change its name to better reflect the confluence of PROFIBUS and PROFINET. After briefly considering re-naming it to the ProfiBusNetDriveSafe Trade Organization, calmer heads prevailed. Having long been called just PTO anyway, just PTO it is now ……