PROFINET of Things: Uptime
Continuing our examination of PROFINET as THE provider of data to the Industrial Internet of Things, we look at additional features of PROFINET – compared to characteristics needed in the IIoT. Uptime is the answer to the mission critical and professional services characteristics of IIoT. Diagnostics Diagnostics provide a means of preventing downtime and recovering…
Read MorePROFINET of Things: Data Access
In the last post, IoT AND IIoT, I positioned PROFINET as foundational to the Industrial Internet of Things which lies in the overlap of IoT and Industrie 4.0. In the post before that, IoT vs. IIoT, Michael explored the differences between IoT and IIoT. This post will start to extend that into the PROFINET of…
Read MoreIoT AND IIoT
I once tried to make the case that “IIoT is not IoT.” And there certainly are differences as Michael pointed out in “IoT vs. IIoT.” But I have finally accepted that IIoT is a subset of IoT even though our Things are used to make the other Things – the Things in the consumer and…
Read MoreIoT vs. IIoT
IIot is not IoT. That much is clear. What isn’t clear is where the similarities and differences arise. Because while one is a Revolution, the other is an Evolution. The rest follows from there. The technologies behind the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have existed for many years. Features like remote access, machine-to-machine, cloud aren’t…
Read MorePI North America 10 Years Ago
As we prepare for our 21st PI North America General Assembly Meeting, I decided it was time to take a look back – 10 years back. The interval was not chosen randomly; I started with PI North America in February 2005. So I stepped into the Wayback Machine; not Mr. Peabody’s, archive.org which has saved…
Read MorePROFINET Connector Installation
PROFINET can be really exciting. Field installing Ethernet connectors – not so much. But you have to do it because you have to plug it in. Here’s how: –Carl Henning
Read MoreIt Works Better If You Plug It In
This is a guest post from Volker Goller, European Manager, Real-Time Ethernet Solutions for PI North America member Innovasic. Many years ago I had the pleasure to work with a British engineer. He loved to add some sentence of wisdom to the credentials of the programs he wrote. One phrase, and to me the best…
Read MoreCatching the Process Fieldbus 2nd edition
The second edition of this classic work adds valuable information about PROFINET’s role in process automation, supplementing the widely-used PROFIBUS protocol. With some theory and a lot of practical experience presented, this book is THE place to start learning about PROFIBUS and PROFINET for process. …so it says on the back cover of Catching the…
Read More5 Lessons about PROFINET You Can Learn from Superheroes
Sometimes I just have to try to make PROFINET even more fun than usual. So this is a (DC) comic-relief post. (Bad pun intended.) Speed. Faster than Flash. PROFINET can achieve update times of 31.25 microseconds. Even on busy Ethernet backbones PROFINET can hit 250 microseconds with no special hardware. Wireless. Invisible in…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Name?
What’s the MAC address of the device you are viewing this from? The IP Address? What’s your name? (My device is called “Carl” since I’m the only Carl in the office.) Wouldn’t it be great if your automation devices had names that included what they were and where they were located? And you didn’t have…
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