Posts Tagged ‘profinet’
Hanover Fair: The News – New Competence Center
There was news of PROFIBUS and PROFINET at Hanover Fair: “50th PI Competence Center (PICC) Established” and it’s in the US! KW Software has become the fourth PICC in North America, joining the PROFI Interface Center (PIC), Molex, and HMS Networks. The PIC is a PICC for both PROFIBUS and PROFINET, the others for PROFINET. …
Read MoreHanover Fair First Impressions
In the hotel bar after the first day of the show, a guy two stools away observed that we had obviously not been impressed by the show. For us it was just another show. The guy two stools down was from Indiana and it was his first show. He was more impressed than we were. …
Read MorePROFINET and IT Protocols
At ControlDesign.com Jim Montague writes that P Is for Protocol. He points out four IT protocols that help diagnose Ethernet performance and manage traffic: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Jim defines each of those. To his list, I would add…
Read MorePROFIpeople
It’s not always about the technology – as solid at the PROFIBUS and PROFINET technologies are. Sometimes it’s about the people who are the public face of the technologies. When you call the PI North America office during business hours, a person answers. We don’t have “press star for a company directory.” We don’t have…
Read MoreNews Roundup
“I’m headed for the last roundup” – so sings Gene Autry in an MP3 track I listen to occasionally. And today we’re headed for the last roundup… for now anyway. We’ve had a video roundup and a white paper roundup and we’ll finish off the roundups with this news roundup: At Control Engineering Automaker changes…
Read MoreOn the PROFI Road
Perhaps you’ve noticed – I like talking about PROFINET and PROFIBUS. Sometimes here, sometimes on the road. I’m just back from on the road in Seattle and the first PROFINET one-day training class of 2013 (with 10 more PROFINET and 7 more PROFIBUS to go). The material is new, revised, re-ordered, and more detailed, so…
Read MoreDueling Views of PROFINET’s Place in System Architecture
I was amused by these dueling viewpoints in recent Control Engineering articles: Ethernet for sensor networks? Why it makes sense today Consider a sensor network to ease connections The first one argues for network-connected, machine-mounted IO that can be close to the sensors and actuators. That’s a good argument and I fully agree with it. …
Read MorePROFINET Video Roundup
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth? Rather than answer that and waste words, here are some PROFINET videos (with referrals to more): Some application stories: GE Intelligent Platforms: Also see a recent blog post for the GE Intelligent Platforms answer to PROFINET – Why Choose…
Read MorePROFINET – Why Choose it?
Last March I posted details from the PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum that we held in Miami the month before: PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum and PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum Day 2 I recently rediscovered the video that was made of GE Intelligent Platforms’ Bernie Anger at the forum. He talked about influences he expected to impact…
Read MoreTrain up an engineer in the way he should go…
Train up an engineer in the way he should go… to fracture Proverbs 22:6 KJV. Fieldbuses and Industrial Ethernets are not your father’s connectivity means. There are many benefits to using them, but you need to understand them. Training is the answer… as I was reminded by my colleague from down under, Rafael Koenig in…
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