Summary of News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
loading… The SPS/IPC/Drives Show is very important for industrial automation professionals. I’ve been going long enough to see it grow in size and visitors (with many more international visitors lately). Given that importance, here’s a summary of news from the show from me and many others: My posts: PROFIBUS News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011 covers PROFIBUS…
Next Year in Nuremberg for SPS/IPC/Drives 2012?
loading… Since next year’s SPS/IPC/Drives Show is the week after Thanksgiving, you should plan to go. It is THE show for industrial automation. The show runs for three days: November 27 through 29, 2012. Monitor the show website for updates and news: http://www.mesago.de/en/SPS/home.htm Tickets for the show are not expensive, but you can probably get…
Miscellaneous News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
loading… The worst part of the SPS/IPC/Drives show is getting there. I was delayed for 4 hours on the way over since we had to land in Halifax, NS, Canada for a medical emergency on board. On the way back I was happy to be delayed only an hour since I still made my connecting…
PROFIenergy News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
loading… There were a few more PROFIenergy products on the PROFIenergy wall. So while other Industrial Ethernets make plans we have members making products. We used an automotive theme to help demonstrate PROFIenergy at the show. We even have a video of PI Chairman Jörg Freitag explaining the analogy. I also used a car analogy…
PROFINET Chip News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
loading… You might think this blog post is mostly for device makers… well, actually it is, but for current and prospective users of PROFINET there’s a message, too. The folks who make the devices you need have a lot of choices in how to implement PROFINET – from software stacks on standard Ethernet Controllers to…
PROFINET News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
loading… The PROFINET news that jumped out at me included controllers and chips. The PROFINET wall featured more controllers than ever. Of course there were controllers from Siemens and Phoenix Contact. And we’ve seen Omron with PROFINET… and ABB. But this is the first year I’ve seen controllers from PI North America members Mitsubishi and…
PROFIBUS News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
loading… PROFIBUS keeps on keeping on. We are expecting to exceed 40 million installed nodes through 2011. This is quite a contrast to the ads hanging on the wall in the office where we brag about exceeding 250,000! PROFIBUS is far and away the most successful fieldbus and still energetic in its maturity. The PROFIBUS…
PROFIBUS & PROFINET Classes: Looking backward, looking forward
loading… We have two more free classes left for 2011: PROFINET in Chicago on November 29 and PROFIBUS in San Diego on December 13. We just completed our next-to-last PROFIBUS class of the year in Raleigh. Raleigh was typical of recent classes – SRO (Standing Room Only). Fortunately we were able to bring in extra…
I Am PROFINET
loading… At the PI North America General Assembly Meeting we shot a video called I Am PROFINET. The production crew gave us a few lines to say including one fill-in-the-blank line. The creative folks then took those clips to the editing room and this is the result: What do you think? –Carl Henning
Automotive Instigates PROFIBUS, then PROFINET
loading… At the PI North America General Assembly Meeting last month we had an automotive theme. This put me in a reflective mood, thinking about the roots of PROFI. In 1989 the German automotive industry asked the government to help them by creating a fieldbus. Thirteen companies and 5 universities responded to the call and…