PROFINET – Why Choose it?
loading… Last March I posted details from the PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum that we held in Miami the month before: PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum and PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum Day 2 I recently rediscovered the video that was made of GE Intelligent Platforms’ Bernie Anger at the forum. He talked about influences he expected to…
Catching the Process Fieldbus
loading… This is an updated, edited version of the book review post from March of 2009. 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…
Train up an engineer in the way he should go…
loading… Train up an engineer in the way he should go… to fracture Proverbs 22:6 KJV. Fieldbuses and Industrial Ethernets are not your father’s connectivity means. There are many benefits to using them, but you need to understand them. Training is the answer… as I was reminded by my colleague from down under, Rafael Koenig…
SPS 2012: Summary
loading… My posts: The Show The PI Booth Member Booths PROFINET Faster PROFINET Chips PROFIdrive PROFIBUS and PROFINET in Process PROFIenergy IO-Link In the news: Automation World Industrial Ethernet Book The Instrumentation Signpost Blog And finally, this video from the PI Support Center: –Carl Henning
SPS 2012: IO-Link
loading… IO-Link also featured prominently in the PI Booth. Our relationship with IO-Link is a bit peculiar. The consortium responsible for IO-Link relies on the PI infrastructure. If you have not encountered IO-Link before, I call it HART for discrete because it superimposes the digital communications over the three-wire DI/DO cable. IO-link is therefore not…
SPS 2012: PROFIenergy
loading… PROFIenergy is a big deal. It’s one of the really big benefits of using PROFINET. Products have been available for some years now and they are starting to appear in very large projects in the automotive industry. At the PI press conference Michael Lebrecht of Daimler presented their ongoing project using PROFIenergy. During the…
SPS 2012: PROFIBUS and PROFINET in Process
loading… Did you notice in the post about the PI Booth that there were two process walls in the booth? One was for PROFIBUS and the other for PROFINET! If you look closely you may also notice Foundation Fieldbus, HART, and WirelessHART. All of these can have a potential role in a PROFINET/PROFIBUS architected system….
SPS 2012: PROFIdrive
loading… PROFIdrive is an application profile that sits above the PROFIBUS and PROFINET communications protocols. It arranges the data in a consistent fashion to simplify the interchange of information. Drive vendors can choose not to use PROFIdrive, but then the drive parameters are not so easily exchanged. To make it easier for drive vendors to…
SPS 2012: PROFINET Chips
loading… I continue to be amazed at the number of chip-based solutions available for PROFINET. I’ve lost count of the actual number. But Innovasic, KW-Software, and Hilscher were in the PI booth with their solutions. Molex was in the booth, too, and they announced a partnership with profichip for a PROFINET solution. I walked over…
SPS 2012: PROFINET Faster
loading… PROFINET was, of course, all over the show, including in the booths of companies that own or sponsor competing Industrial Ethernets! PROFINET’s theme in the PI booth was that PROFINET does more. It is faster now with 31.25 microsecond update times, but there’s a lot more to PROFINET. Like the only Industrial Ethernet with…