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- 1987 – the German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology requests a collaboration project called “Field Bus”. 13 companies and 5 universities jointly develop an open field bus under the name PROFIBUS, for PROcess-FIeld-BUS
- 1989 – the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation (PNO) is established in Germany as the first user organization
- 1992 – Switzerland establishes the second (counting PNO) Regional PROFIBUS Association (RPA), with the motto “develop globally, support locally”
- 1993 – PROFIBUS DP (Decentralized Periphery) is released and its use for discrete I/O begins
- 1994 – here in the USA, the PROFIBUS Trade Organization (PTO) is formed
- 1995 – All RPAs are pooled under the newly formed international umbrella organization PROFIBUS International (PI)
- 1996 – PROFIBUS PA (Process Automation) is created for process instruments and all related scope of applications
- 1997 – 1 million PROFIBUS devices installed
- 1999 – PROFIBUS DP is adopted as an international standard under IEC 61158
- 2000 – the first PI Competence Center (PICC) is established
- 2001 – the PROFIsafe common application profile is specified to allow for safety over logic, leveraging the establishment of PROFIBUS
- 2003 – 10 million PROFIBUS devices installed
- 2006 – the PI name is updated to include PROFINET: PI – PROFIBUS and PROFINET International
- 2009 – 30 million PROFIBUS devices installed
- 2013- over 50 million PROFIBUS devices installed
- 2014- the PNO celebrates 25 years since its foundation
- 2017- 11.5 million PROFIBUS devices in process automation systems