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.
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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
PIC helps with PROFINET
The PROFIBUS Interface Center (PIC) is now becoming fully involved in promoting and supporting PROFINET technology in North America. Since four of the leading automotive manufacturers in Europe, members of AIDA – the Automation Initiative of Domestic German Automobile Manufacturers – have publicly announced the adoption of PROFINET, we are beginning to see a great…
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 ……
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
General Assembly in August a success
The PROFIBUS Trade Organization held its annual General Assembly meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, in August 2005. Attended by more than 60 delegates from vendor companies, users, distributors, integrators and the PROFIBUS Interface Center (PIC) in Johnson City. The meeting was hailed as a great success. The PROFIBUS Trade Organization is shortly to be renamed PTO…
Free seminars
Our free seminar series is helping users across North America gain a deeper understanding of not only PROFIBUS but also PROFIBUS in the Process Industry, and PROFINET too. ARC Advisory Group Senior Analyst Harry Forbes is providing an objective overview of the Industrial Ethernet market. His insight into the market and the various competing…