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loading… If you did not make it to the PROFINET one-day training class in Oak Brook, IL you can see a report from Mark Hoske of Control Engineering in his article, “Industrial Ethernet advantages using Profinet protocol.” During the portion that Mark reports on, there was a really excellent observation.  One of the device manufacturers…

loading… Seems like I just blogged about the Louisville PROFINET one-day training class, but since then I’ve been to Tampa (PROFINET), Denver (PROFIBUS), and Long Beach (AS-i).  And now I’m writing this on the plane to the final PROFINET one-day training event of the year (Chicago for PROFINET and a PROFINET Developer Workshop).  My colleagues…

loading… Here is the first of 5 or 6 reports from the SPS/Drives Show in Germany.  The blog software does not make it easy to embed photos or video so check out the report here.

loading… Our course evaluation form asks some specific questions with check box choice answers, but I think the most interesting are the open-ended questions.  Two of those are topics you would like to see covered in greater detail and topics in less detail.  In Louisville there were a few responses for topics attendees thought we…

loading… Disney’s Toy Story Midway Mania uses PROFINET for ride control.  I refered to it briefly in an earlier post, “So an engineer walks into a theme park…”.  Now Control Engineering has a very comprehensive article on it, complete with video: “Automation and Ethernet Combine for 3D Disney Attraction”. I spoke with Dave Greenfield, Control…

loading… This is my last post on the topic of social media.  Past posts were “Blogs, Twitter, Podcasts, and Animation” and “More on Social Media.” How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?  (The question from the blog post of the same title and highlighted on Twitter by JHenning.)  My answer: “More time…

loading… From the plane bound for Louisville, here is one of the comments from the PROFIBUS in the Process Industries one-day training class in Long Beach: “I think PROFIBUS is more complicated than Foundation Fieldbus as far as device connections go.” At the physical layer there is no difference between FF and PROFIBUS PA so…

loading… This is a continuation of “Blogs, Twitter, Podcasts, and Animation” from last night.  Start there and read the comments, check out Jim Cahill’s “Web 2.0 for Automation Marketers”, then read on… Wonder out loud how many engineers use social media one day and the next day the RSS feed delivers an answer.  GlobalSpec’s Marketing…

loading… This post is not about PROFIBUS or PROFINET; it’s about using social media for “marketing.”  Engineers are warned to continue reading only at their own risk. Walt Boyes, Gary Mintchell, and Jim Cahill are twittering (or is it tweeting) from ISA’s 3rd Annual Marketing & Sales Summit.  (Visit www.twitter.com and search on their names. …

loading… After each of our one-day training events we send a “Thank You” email that includes additional resources for more detailed information.  No one usually replies to those, but someone form San Antonio’s PROFIBUS class did.  Here was his reply: Thank you for organizing the class.  It was very informative.  I learned a lot.  You…