Trade Show and GAM Reports
Hanover Fair 2014
loading… PI has a booth at Hanover Fair in Hall 9, Stand D68. Stop by and say “Hello.” (Not hello to me though. I did not make the trip this year.) So I am experiencing the Fair vicariously through my colleagues who are there. So say hello to them or experience the show vicariously with…
Read MoreAttend the PROFINET Session at ARC (Virtually, in the Past) Part 2
loading… Picking up from yesterday’s video journey through the PROFINET session at the ARC Forum… Michael Rothwell, Director of Control and Industry Solutions at Phoenix Contact continues the Internet of Things (IoT) story: Chris Muench, the CEO of C-Labs, continues the IoT theme: David Greenfield moderated a panel discussion on PROFINET. Panelists included David Loveridge…
Read MoreAttend the PROFINET Session at ARC (Virtually, in the Past)
loading… Even though you may not have been one of the hundred in-person attendees at the PROFINET session at the ARC Forum, you can see all the presentations and the panel discussion right here. (The short version appeared in PROFInews North American Edition 62: PROFINET at the ARC Forum.) Michael Bryant hosted the session which…
Read MorePROFINET at the ARC Forum
loading… One hundred attendees of the ARC Forum in Orlando stayed for the last morning’s sessions on PROFINET (despite weather-inflicted travel woes). The session expanded on ARC’s theme of the information driven enterprise by showing how PROFINET enables the information driven enterprise. Three PI North America Board members described their focus on PROFINET. They were…
Read MorePROFINET Classes, Quantitatively Speaking
loading… We finished our second free PROFINET one-day training class on February 18 in Birmingham. The first one was earlier in February in San Diego (see PROFINET – Not Pregnant Enough in San Diego). I posted some results from the course evaluations in San Diego, but those were qualitative. With two classes done, I decided…
Read MorePROFINET Executive Leadership Forum at ARC Forum
loading… PI North America will be sponsoring a track at the ARC Forum in Orlando in February. This follows our successful PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum in 2012. (See news and blog posts.) In 2012, we corralled an impressive array of speakers on topics of general interest to manufacturers. We followed this with PROFINET-specific user stories.…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: News Roundup
loading… A look at news from SPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013 around the Internet. PROFIblog posts News Press Conference PI Booth PI Booth 2 Around the Show PI Booth (Behind the Scenes) Sightseeing From PI, a video look around the PI Booth: PROFInews North American Edition From the Industrial Ethernet Book: “sps ipc drives 2013 Show Report:…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: Sightseeing
loading… Off topic: to get a great price on roundtrip airfare to Germany, I had to stay a Saturday night. So after the show I had time to kill. Carl’s sightseeing photo album: –Carl Henning
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: PI Booth (Behind the scenes)
loading… You should watch for Monday’s PROFInews North American Edition to see “official” stories from the PI Booth and the show, but only here on the PROFIblog will you find the story behind the story! So here is a peek behind the scenes: First, to answer the question you’ve been wondering about since my last…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: Around the Show
loading… PROFINET and PROFIBUS were not confined to the PI Booth at SPS of course. But first, a little about the show and the PI booth, by the numbers: 32 Company kiosks in PI Booth 36 Length of PROFINET Wall in feet 100 Vendors in PI Booth 529 Pounds of “Gummi” logos at PI Booth…
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