PROFIsafe
PROFIsafe at ISA
loading… UPDATED (scroll to bottom for additions) In Houston this year I was on the functional safety panel with colleagues from HART Communication Foundation and Fieldbus Foundation plus one user. The 45 or so attendees were mostly interested in hearing from the user and mostly about Foundation Fieldbus. To make up for that, I promised…
Read MoreSafety Road Report
loading… We interrupt this series on the General Assembly Meeting, to talk about the one-day training classes. Seems I haven’t had a chance to talk about recent PROFINET classes in San Jose and Kansas City and I’m headed out to Cleveland now for another one. We continually tweak the classes based on attendee feedback. Few…
Read MoreFunctional Safety over the Network Webinar
loading… We’ve shortened the PROFIsafe section of the PROFINET and PROFIBUS one-day training classes this year. So naturally we’re getting some requests to beef that up. Instead, we’ve decided to do a webinar on the topic. It’s scheduled for 2:00pm Eastern Time on April 1. You will find a little more information and a link…
Read MoreWireless Ethernet Safety
loading… One of the other questions that came up in Grand Rapids came up during the PROFINET section and related to safety. I thought it worth expanding on the answer to that. The question: “Can I use PROFINET over wireless in a PROFIBUS PA environment?” First, let’s be clear that we are talking about two…
Read MoreImprove Safety, Improve Production
loading… “One in-depth study conducted by a group … with a combined exposure of over 50 billion hours, concluded that production increased as safety increased,” reports Charles M. Fialkowski in “Safety Instrumented System design is all about the process.” Although this is somehow counterintuitive, better safety equals better production. We’ve been preaching this for years. …
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