PROFIBUS Book Review
I once blogged with tongue in cheek that not only did we have more installed nodes of PROFIBUS than any of the other fieldbuses, but that we had more books, too. Now we have one more and it’s a doozey. The principal author is James Powell. You may recall James from earlier posts. [I always…
Read MoreMore SUE
Since this blogging software doesn’t do a good job of sending out comments via RSS, I’m promoting a comment from Gary Mintchell and my response to this post: Hi Carl, I’ve talked with their technical people about apples to apples comparisons. Evidently the message has not reached corporate communications people. It’s not so bad that…
Read MoreThe Big Lie: SUE
The Big Lie is a propaganda technique. It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf as a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. [So begins the Wikipedia article Big Lie.] The Big Lie has been widely practiced…
Read MoreAsset Management Convergence
Two diverse newsletters recently converged in my email inbox to make me think about asset management. The first one was an e-newsletter from Chemical Processing magazine. (I’m not sure how I got on their mailing list, but once in a while I see something germane to PROFIBUS and PROFINET.) “The Asset Management Benchmark Report: Moving…
Read MoreHype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
I love graphs. Clicking on an article in a recent email newsletter brought me to “The Wireless Hype in Process Automation” by Dieter Schaudel at ControlGlobal.com. The wireless part hooked me, but the graph of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies really grabbed me. It takes us from the Technology Trigger over the Peak…
Read MoreSPS Drives 2008 Report: IO-Link
I’ve previously described IO-Link as HART for discrete. IO-Link was widely displayed at this year’s show. For more explanation, how it fits with PROFIBUS and PROFINET, reports, photos, and video, click here.
Read MoreHanover Fair 2008: Discoveries and surprises
Monday morning and I’m about to leave for the airport en route to Houston for the ABB Automation World. I’ll be speaking about PROFIBUS and PROFINET on Thursday. But before I go let me share some of the discoveries I made at Hanover Fair. Phoenix Contact showed managed Ethernet switches that have their configuration saved…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2008: Hooked on a Feeling
The final numbers for Hanover Fair are just in – in time for this, my final Hanover Fair post: 5,100 exhibitors from 60 countries 200,000 visitors 3,200,000 leads generated (a 15% – 20% increase) This blogging software won’t let me post videos, so click here to get the sights, sounds, and feelings…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2008: Even more news
The final new press release from the PI press conference covered new white papers. [From O’Hare airport in Chicago, between flights.] The news: PI publishes two new strategy documents The gist, part 2: The second one is “Enhancing the High Performance of PROFINET.” It builds on the paper presented at the 12th IEEE Conference on…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2008: More news
The big news related to PROFIBUS and PROFINET (and maybe for the show over all) was the continuing growth of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET fieldbuses. What the numbers were and meant were in an earlier post. The other topics from the PI press conference included: The news: IO-Link Integration into PROFIBUS and PROFINET The gist:…
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