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loading… Unbelievably, my first business trip of the year starts Wednesday as I head for Kansas City.  If you are near there, I hope to see you at the PROFINET one-day training event there.  (Please register so we get an accurate count for lunch.) Now, jumping into the Wayback Machine… when I found out I…

loading… Digital February issues of Control Engineering and InTech hit the streets Friday.  Better make that “hit the inboxes Friday.” In “More power over Ethernet” in Control Engineering, this well-said summary of the impact of Power over Ethernet (PoE) in our field: Despite the research, “Fieldbus leaders shouldn’t lose any sleep over PoE for now,”…

loading… InTech magazine is conducting a survey on fieldbus usage. Please take their very short survey here.

loading… Peter Welander writing in a Control Engineering article, “Opinion: Living in a legacy world, or where is “real-life” technology?” really captured my attention, saying, “Those two users reinforced something we see in many different ways—that companies may not be as concerned with the latest technologies as providers and those of us in the press…

loading… The one-day training event season is off and running with the first class completed today in Augusta – a PROFIBUS in the Process Industry class.  Over 60 attendees were there for the kick off.*  Next week it’s PROFINET in Kansas City (3/15).  It’s not too late to register.  In fact register by Thursday and…

loading… Whew!  My blogging fell behind as I was forced to do my actual job for a while.  Our first PROFINET one-day training event is March 15 in Kansas City.  I was frantically getting the material ready for the printer.  With that done and the webinar infrastructure in place and the PROFINET Developer Workshop preliminaries…

loading… We’ve just announced our schedule for PROFINET Developer Workshops for 2007.  Yes, it’s workshops, plural, this year.  As the demand for PROFINET products increases, we have planned three workshops this year.  As with last year’s successful workshop, these are targeted at control device developers and product marketers.  We are covering both coasts and the…

loading… I discovered from Jim Cahill at Emerson Process Experts that MYNAH had started a blog.  Upon visiting I discovered they were also debating Ethernet and OPC.  I was compelled to post a comment.  Hmm, “debate” sounds too political; perhaps the Ethernet Dialogue Continues…

loading… I finally had a chance to chat with PTO Executive Director Mike Bryant about his participation in the Field Communications Panel at the ARC Forum last week.  (Of course, I chatted on the phone with the perpetually-mobile Mr. B; he won’t be in the office for a while.)  The panel was moderated by ARC’s…

loading… One of the challenges we faced in our PROFINET one-day training events last year was trying to balance how much to cover on Ethernet Basics.  Many control engineers were comfortable with conventional fieldbuses, but knew nothing about Industrial Ethernet.  Others were already familiar; some even had IT in their backgrounds.  And the time we…