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loading… “PROFIBUS, PROFINET, and Fieldbuses in the news” in which Carl refers you to news of interest and makes a few comments. Let’s start with the generic networking article from Control magazine: “Networking that floats all boats” which starts out by disparaging all fieldbuses before moving on to cover EDDL, OPC UA, Ethernet, and wireless. …

loading… Technically I suppose this is a post about comments.  The point is that anonymous comments have been enabled for the PROFIblog and I hope you will participate by adding your comments.  You don’t have to agree with me – responsible opposing viewpoints are welcome… encouraged even.  Dialog is good.  You’ll find some of that…

loading… In his blog, Emerson’s Jim Cahill picked up some of my posts about the joint press release in which Emerson and Siemens announced some mutual cooperation.  Jim rightly pointed out that Emerson has long supported PROFIBUS DP and other open standards.  You’ll find his post and my comments at Emerson Process Experts.  I’ve added…

loading… Thursday morning was our PROFINET morning.  We began with an Industrial Ethernet market overview by ARC Advisory Group Senior Analyst Harry Forbes.  Actually, I think Harry followed our PROFINET “commercial.”  (Seems like everyone used videos this year.  All the user presenters did.  So did Michelle Palmer in her keynote.)  Harry provided some interesting insights…

loading… I expected to blog daily about the PTO General Assembly Meeting, but when I realized each night that my choice was blog or sleep, sleep always won.  So now it’s Saturday morning, the week’s email is processed (mostly), the emergencies are handled, sleep has been caught up, and with feet comfortably elevated, here’s the…

loading… General Assembly Meeting week is off to a roaring start.  The PROFIsafe Developer Class has concluded and we’re now into the PROFIsafe User Overview Class.  We took most of the developer class to downtown Cave Creek for dinner at The Satisfied Frog.  It’s always fun to get together in an informal setting and talk…

loading… Here in the Scottsdale offices of the PTO, we are frantically completing the last minute stuff that must be done for next week’s General Assembly Meeting.  Everyone is in the office this week which is an uncommon occurrence these days.  The final agenda is set.  We have four half-day themes: reports, marketing, PROFINET, and…

loading… Well, another Friday, another airport (O’Hare this time, returning from the PROFINET one-day training event in Bur Ridge).  And with some time to catch up on comments about the article at ControlGlobal.com: “Fieldbus Wars continue.”  Tim Sweet of Honeywell is quoted saying that use of Foundation fieldbus, HART and Profibus DP has soared in…

loading… We just concluded our PROFINET one-day training event in suburban Chicago.  I’m amazed by the large number of control device manufacturers that attended today.  (We had quite a few in Boston a month ago, too.)  Many are drawn to the event because they are hearing a demand from their customers for PROFINET.  A few…

loading… I see a joint press release today from Siemens and Emerson announcing their support for global standards.  As I see it, EDDL brought them together, but the real benefit for users is that they’ll support “each other’s” standards.   Emerson is known for supporting Foundation Fieldbus (FF) and Siemens will add support for FF…