Hanover Fair 2011 Part 4: PI North America Member Products
loading… Quite a few PI North America members had products in the PI booth. Some were on the PROFINET walls, like the Innovasic development kit: Some had larger displays in the PI booth like Harting and Molex. Here’s the Molex stack running on an iPad: Some had PROFINET products in their own booths like Phoenix…
Hanover Fair 2011 Part 3: PROFIenergy
loading… Energy savings was ubiquitous at Hanover Fair this year. In keeping with this theme, PI presented PROFIenergy. We presented a PROFIenergy wall with background information about PROFIenergy and an interactive product display: For a video introduction to PROFIenergy, see this video that Automation World shot in the booth. PROFIenergy products are available from multiple…
Hanover Fair 2011 Part 2: PI Booth
loading… PI invited some friends over to share the booth, forum, and catering area. In addition to PI’s large area, FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, and HART Communication Foundation were also in our “Fieldbus Communication Lounge.” PI has instigated cooperative efforts with all three groups to ease user interaction in wireless and in asset management infrastructure…
Hanover Fair 2011 Part 1: First Impressions
loading… Busy. Hanover Fair seemed busier than earlier years and probably much busier than last year (which I missed due to the volcano… as did many others). The aisles were more crowded, the booths busier, the forum presentations better attended, the booth parties busier, and the conversations more frequent than in the past. Here is…
Gratuitous, self-serving praise for PI North America training
loading… With two PROFINET one-day training classes and one PROFIBUS class behind us (and 15 to go) I thought it time to share some of the nice things students have said about the classes. And the, ah, “constructive criticism” as well. I’m off today for the PROFINET one-day training class in Mt. Laurel, NJ tomorrow. …
Slap! I could have had a …
loading… Slap! I could have had a … no, not a V-8, a PROFINET backbone. That was the reaction of a student at the Greenville PROFINET one-day training class who recently installed a PROFIBUS DP backbone. Well, actually, what he wrote on the Course Evaluation form under the “In greater detail” section was: “PROFIBUS vs….
What do you get when you…
loading… …fall in love? No, what do you get when you join PI North America? All this stuff: That’s right, you get 4 books and a booklet, mouse pad, pens, and lots of documents. You also get a username and password to download even more documentation from the website and to place your products in…
Fieldbuses Are No Good
loading… Fieldbuses are no good? (I can’t believe I said that.*) But you might think that if you’ve read some recent articles on ControlGlobal. The two-part series titled “The Fieldbus Jungle” reminds us that fieldbuses are not all unicorns and rainbows, but the articles come across as too cautionary. (Reference: The Fieldbus Jungle Part 1….
PROFINET and PROFIBUS
loading… I always come into the transition from one year to the next thinking “I’m off the road; I can get caught up on blogging.” Good theory. Instead I’ve been scrambling to get ready for our PROFINET and PROFIBUS one-day training classes for 2011. The PROFINET Training Manuals are at the printers; the CDs are…
PROFINET Introduction Video
loading… A PROFINET video introducing the technology has been uploaded to the PROFIblogger channel: –Carl Henning