Posts Tagged ‘PROFIenergy’
SPS 2012: PROFIenergy
PROFIenergy is a big deal. It’s one of the really big benefits of using PROFINET. Products have been available for some years now and they are starting to appear in very large projects in the automotive industry. At the PI press conference Michael Lebrecht of Daimler presented their ongoing project using PROFIenergy. During the Q&A…
Read MorePROFIenergy News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
There were a few more PROFIenergy products on the PROFIenergy wall. So while other Industrial Ethernets make plans we have members making products. We used an automotive theme to help demonstrate PROFIenergy at the show. We even have a video of PI Chairman Jörg Freitag explaining the analogy. I also used a car analogy in…
Read MoreAutomotive Instigates PROFIBUS, then PROFINET
At the PI North America General Assembly Meeting last month we had an automotive theme. This put me in a reflective mood, thinking about the roots of PROFI. In 1989 the German automotive industry asked the government to help them by creating a fieldbus. Thirteen companies and 5 universities responded to the call and created…
Read MoreQuantitative PROFIenergy Energy Savings
In my last blog post, I mentioned that we were in Lucerne, Switzerland for the PI International annual organization meeting. One of the presentations we were given was about a recent study conducted by Prof. Dr. Fritjof Klasen on PROFIenergy. He is from the Institute for Automation & Industrial IT (AIT) at the University of…
Read MorePROFItelevision
I love to talk about PROFINET. I’ve discovered that I’m even happy to talk about PROFINET if there’s a camera running. We now have two YouTube channels that you might want to subscribe to: PROFItelevision and PROFIblogger. Here’s a five-minute introduction to PROFIenergy from PROFItelevision: Here’s a slightly longer video, a summary of PROFINET benefits:…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2011 Part 3: PROFIenergy
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 vendors;…
Read MoreSPS Show Report 2010, Around the Show
Before I had time to leave the PI booth, at the Phoenix Contact station I was handed a Tiger chip. Except they’re not calling it “Tiger” anymore; it’s just called TPS-1. This ASIC is intended for simple PROFINET IO devices. Right next to their station was the Innovasic station. Keith Prettyjohns introduces their solution in…
Read MoreGo Green for Money, not Image
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 use…
Read MorePROFINET Wins, Organization Expands, PROFIenergy Products
Lots of news from PI today: PROFIBUS and PROFINET by the numbers I hate to get too wrapped up in node counts, but here are the installed nodes through 2009: PROFIBUS 31,400,000 (5,400,000 in the process industries) PROFINET 2,100,000 PROFIsafe 850,000 Press Release: Healthy growth for PROFIBUS and PROFINET The only thing these numbers really…
Read MoreSPS Report 5: PROFIenergy
At the show PROFINET was ubiquitous, but I think the biggest news of the fair was PROFIenergy. First, PROFINET. Here is a ten-second pan of the PROFINET wall in the PI booth. And this is the PROFINET display at the Phoenix Contact stand: Now to PROFIenergy: PROFIenergy is an application profile for PROFINET that makes…
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