SPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: Around the Show
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 1,622…
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PROFINET and PROFIBUS at every turn… in the vendor kiosks and PI features around the PI Booth at SPS. Here’s a photo gallery “look around” (click to enlarge and start slide show): And finally, a shortened, but still boring, robot video: –Carl Henning
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: PI Booth
There were familiar PROFINET and PROFIBUS features of the PI Booth: PROFINET Wall, PROFIBUS Wall, Forum, Lounge, and member kiosks. Here’s the overview: Let’s take a look around, starting with the PROFINET Wall: The PROFIBUS wall features a little PROFINET in process applications, too: Also on the PROFIBUS wall was an example of the ability…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: Press Conference
The second morning, before the show started, was the PI Press Conference. Even though it is conducted mostly in German, the PI North America staff was in attendance. (Maybe you followed my Tweets live from the press conference: @AllThingsPROFI.) Karsten Schneider, PI Chairman, introduced the event with a reminder of the global strength of the…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: News
Thanksgiving is past; Black Friday is just a memory. So, it’s time for the SPS/IPC/Drives Show wrap-up from a PROFINET and PROFIBUS perspective. This will definitely take a bunch of posts! There were several big news stories. Emerson was showing their redundant PROFINET module for DeltaV. This joins their redundant PROFIBUS module. This was their…
Read MorePROFINET Does That: An Engineering Thought Process – Part 2
This is Part 2 in a two part series helping to convey what we really mean by “PROFINET Does That”. The engineering thought process of our fictional Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineer is our guide. In Part 1 we left off with him realizing that: the multi-vendor approach of PROFINET means he has a choice in…
Read MorePROFINET Does That: An Engineering Thought Process – Part 1
The theme for our General Assembly Meeting this year was “PROFINET Does That”. It has actually been a theme the entire year. If we had to read between the lines however and find the subtext of the meeting it would be that there are many manufacturers out there looking to upgrade their aging automation systems.…
Read MorePROFINET and PROFIBUS Rock Summary
For news of the PI North America General Assembly Meeting see: Automation World: Industry Suppliers Explain Support for Profinet & Profibus The Manufacturing Connection Control Engineering (with video) PROFIblog series Some final thoughts: I enjoy collecting the survey responses from the meeting. This year everyone said the meeting met their expectations and most said they…
Read MoreUsers and Updates Rock
Two kinds of presentations rounded out the PI North America General Assembly Meeting: information updates and user stories. Kyle McMillan showed device makers new testing that will be added to the certification test process. This covers “netload testing.” It will assure that devices withstand traffic and gracefully recover from Denial of Service attacks. Steffen Ochsenreither…
Read MorePROFINET Diagnostics Rock
Day one of the PI North America General Assembly Meeting sessions concluded with PROFINET presentations: one on diagnostics and one on the net load test tool. To open his session with a “wow,” Hunter Harrington of the PROFI Interface Center (PIC) reminded us of the importance of diagnostics… on a starship, with an edited version…
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