Trade Show and GAM Reports

loading… I always enjoy visiting PI North America members’ booths to see what’s new and talk to folks from the US and from headquarters.  There is always news about PROFINET and PROFIBUS. At the Phoenix Contact booth, PI North America Board of Directors member Mike Rothwell ensured that I got a look at new PROFINET…

loading… I was able to get around the fair two ways this year.  One, I took two guided tours offered by the Fair (Industry 4.0 and Industrial Automation and IT).  Second, I always make it a point to visit PI North America members’ booths. I took the tours to force visits to booths I would…

loading… “Good News Is No News.”  The PROFINET and PROFIBUS news from Hanover Fair was slim… and that’s a good thing.  This means the technologies are stable and complete.  Although work continues “around the edges,” the core communications protocols are where they need to be for wide adoption. With 50,900,000 PROFIBUS nodes installed through 2014…

loading… I wish you could have been there to see and hear all about PROFINET, PROFIBUS, and IO-Link.  Since you weren’t, here’s the photo gallery (click to enlarge and start slide show): The PI Booth provided a great meeting point for North American trade press, PI North America members, and PI colleagues from around the…

loading… The official theme of this year’s Fair was “Integrated Industry – Join the Network” but the real theme was “Industry 4.0.” Industry 4.0 was noted in every booth in some way.  The best explanation of Industry 4.0 that I heard was in the ABB booth as part of the official Industry 4.0 tour that…

loading… Hanover Fair (Hannover Messe) took up all 5 weekdays last week.  (Many of us remember when it was longer with family days on the weekend.)  “Integrated Industry – Join the Network” was its keynote theme.  Phrases I heard during the week included: Shop floor to top floor. Lot size of one. Personalization. Industry 4.0…

loading… Here’s a directory to PROFINET, PROFIBUS, and IO-Link news from the SPS/IPC/Drive Fair: Blog series PROFINEWS (There is some overlap between the blog and PROFINEWS, but the blog posts provide more behind the scenes, first-person “reporting.”? New video from PI exploring the PI Stand: From Phoenix Contact on their stand: From Siemens on their…

loading… The SPS Fair is huge (22 American football field’s worth), so it is very difficult to walk it all. Instead I targeted a few members’ stands. I missed photo ops at the Balluff and Turck stands, but here are some others (click to enlarge and start slideshow): HARTING HARTING was looping this clever one-minute…