Hanover Fair, News
Here are a couple news items from PI at Hanover Fair. PROFINET in Process PROFIBUS PA and PROFINET play well together, we are reminded. Our addition of functions such as CiR (Configuration in Run), Redundancy, Time synchronization, and Time stamping (Sequence of Events) and the proven standardized proxy solution for integrating fieldbus systems of any…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2014, PROFIpeople
Some PI North America members have exhibits or will be stopping by the booth (Hall 9, Stand D68). Be sure to look them up. Many of our colleagues from the PI Support Center are there: here is Dr. Peter Wenzel: At the booth reception desk, Wolfgang Quint and Iris Ketterer of the PI Support Center:…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2014
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 me.…
Read MorePROFINET Fuddy-Duddy
A fuddy-duddy is someone who is old-fashioned and conservative almost to the point of eccentricity or geekiness. I fail to see how old-fashioned and geekiness can be used in the same definition. But I just used “fuddy-duddy” because it sounds interesting and it contains “FUD.” FUD, you may recall, stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.…
Read MoreContracted Security
Should securing your network follow the model of securing your plant? Most factory security guards that I’ve encountered don’t work for the company that owns the factory; they’re contracted. Should you contract securing your network? You probably contract at least some of your automation engineering to a System Integrator. Is this any different? This line…
Read MoreAttend the PROFINET Session at ARC (Virtually, in the Past) Part 2
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 of…
Read MoreAttend the PROFINET Session at ARC (Virtually, in the Past)
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 dug…
Read MoreAround the World in 50 Competence Centers
PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International) has created a unique institution: the PI Competence Center (PICC). There are 50 of these around the world. And their existence and availability are reasons that PROFINET is a truly global phenomenon. The PICCs are there to provide support for the PROFINET and PROFIBUS networks. A user facing network questions…
Read MorePROFINET at the ARC Forum
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 introduced…
Read MorePROFINET Classes, Quantitatively Speaking
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 to…
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