PROFINET is Coffee
loading… As part of our PROFINET one-day training classes, we wanted to provide an easy way to remember some of the benefits of PROFINET. We created a mnemonic device so you can remember the benefits. A mnemonic provides an easy way to remember something; I used one in a previous post, PROFINET for Network Geeks…
Drive it Safe with PROFINET
loading… PI has released a new animated video showing PROFIsafe in action over PROFINET. (PROFIsafe works over PROFIBUS, too.) It presents the iPar Server for storing safety (and other) parameters. And it presents it more succinctly than I did in a blog post a couple years ago: iPar Server. It also shows a brief look…
Hanover Fair, News on Condition Monitoring
loading… With the PROFINET specification complete and stable, work continues on application profiles. An application profile standardizes the way data is sent and received to simplify user interaction; the underlying communications protocol is not impacted. As one example, PI is the only organization that has created standards for taking information from the plant floor to…
Green, Green, It’s Green, They Say…
loading… Green, green, it’s green, they say… on the far side of the hill AND in Hanover and Stuttgart: On Wednesday, Winfried Kretschmann (center) visited the PI booth. He is Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the first Minister-President in German history from the Green Party. He was introduced to PROFINET and PROFIenergy, the…
Hanover Fair, News
loading… 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…
Hanover Fair 2014, PROFIpeople
loading… 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…
Hanover Fair 2014
loading… 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…
PROFINET Fuddy-Duddy
loading… 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…
Contracted Security
loading… 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…
Attend the PROFINET Session at ARC (Virtually, in the Past) Part 2
loading… 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…