News

April 4, 2004

Highly Dynamic Motion Control Solutions Now Also Available Under PROFINET

PROFIBUS International (PI) began work on the development of a high-performance realtime solution for highly dynamic motion control applications under PROFINET. This solution completes the existing Realtime Solution SRT (Soft Realtime).   By using SRT, PROFINET V2.0 took the first step towards a powerful realtime solution that can achieve cycle times of 5 to 10…

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March 3, 2004

PROFIBUS Bets on Open Engineering Solutions

The large variety of device types and device vendors, and the optimized adoption of complex devices in the plant continue to result in difficult and expensive device configurations that trouble contractors and end-users alike. In 1988, the ZVEI (Central Association of Electrical Industry) initiated a working group with the objective to specify a vendor-independent Field…

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February 2, 2004

PI, HCF and FF Pulling Together for EDD

EDD Technology will be well-rounded by the organizations HART Communication Foundation (HCF), Fieldbus Foundation (FF) and PROFIBUS International (PI) together. For the operation of instruments with different communication systems, a cooperation with the three major organizations was agreed beginning of February this year. The agreement includes the objective, to complete EDD Technology. A version of…

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January 1, 2004

New AnyBus – PCI PROFIBUS Master & Slave PCI Cards

 HMS has now applied its vast experience from over 200.000 sold embedded Fieldbus interfaces, to produce a new family of PCI cards. The new AnyBus-PCI cards give users a cost-effective solution for connecting Field Devices to Industrial PCs.   The PCI cards are optimized for PC-based industrial control and visualization applications and support Profibus-DP &…

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