Safety Road Report
loading… We interrupt this series on the General Assembly Meeting, to talk about the one-day training classes. Seems I haven’t had a chance to talk about recent PROFINET classes in San Jose and Kansas City and I’m headed out to Cleveland now for another one. We continually tweak the classes based on attendee feedback. Few…
Don’t Know Much about History
loading… In honor of PI’s 20th birthday last year, we published a history book, Milestones, PROFIBUS – 20 years of standards for industrial communications. At the General Assembly Meeting, Geoff Hodgkinson expanded on some of that history in a light-hearted presentation. During his presentation we discovered he has the world’s largest collection of PTO General…
PROFINET in Process Industries
loading… Continuing news from the General Assembly Meeting, PROFINET in the process industries was introduced by Jörg Freitag on Wednesday and expanded upon by Martin Raab on Thursday. First, let me make clear that PROFINET in process does not supplant PROFIBUS PA, it supplements it. PROFIBUS PA is suitable for hazardous environments; no Industrial Ethernet…
Certification
loading… Continuing with news from the PI North America General Assembly Meeting, Martin Raab of the PROFI Interface Center updated us on engineers and installers certified and products certified. Certification plays an important role in the PROFIBUS and PROFINET community. PI certifies PI Competence Centers (PICCs), PI Test Labs (PITLs), and PI Training Centers (PITCs). …
All Things PROFINET
loading… We noticed that there was no one, single place to go for information about PROFINET. Hence, our new website: www.AllThingsPROFINET.com. The site is designed to provide a guided tour for visitors depending on their role in the organization. So a control engineer can step through a complete PROFINET project from start to finish. We…
What’s in a Name?
loading… In the beginning (1994), the PROFIBUS Trade Organization was founded in Scottsdale, AZ by Mike Bryant, its Executive Director. As a non-profit trade organization it was dedicated to promoting PROFIBUS in North America. Mike recruited major automation companies to join the fledgling organization. Siemens took the first Board of Directors seat. At the 1994…
PROFIBUS Planning Guide Available
loading… The release of PROFIBUS Installation Guideline for Planning completes a three-part installation set. It’s now available for download online. Already available were PROFIBUS Installation Guideline for Cabling and Assembly and PROFIBUS Installation Guideline for Commissioning. For tips and techniques in planning, installing, and commissioning PROFIBUS attend one of our one-day training classes or Certified…
Go Green for Money, not Image
loading… I don’t do well with the whole politically correct thing. In the one-day training classes we even talk about <gasp> multi-point grounding. And we talk about the reasons to use PROFIenergy, including AGW (Anthropomorphic Global Warning*). I guess I’m a bit of a skeptic, but it doesn’t matter – it’s still a reason to…
New Webinars
loading… We just completed two webinars in two days. (Note to self: don’t schedule that way again!) Today’s webinar was a condensed version of our Industrial Ethernet Basics series. We originally did that series so students coming to our PROFINET one-day training class would be prepared without our spending 3 hours on the basics that…
PTO General Assembly Meeting Coming Up
loading… After last year’s web meeting, we’re back to normal in 2010 with an in-person meeting. Since we couldn’t celebrate our 15th anniversary with all our members last year, we decided to celebrate our Sweet Sixteen this year. So, PTO members, click over to the General Assembly Meeting 2010 page for details and a link…