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Four kinds of wireless
PROFIBUS and PROFINET are involved in three of the four kinds of wireless. (Yes, wireless is not one monolithic thing: Wireless or Wireless.) My take on the four kinds: Long-distance like to RTUs Process instrument networks like WirelessHART (PI cooperated with HART Communication Foundation and Fieldbus Foundation to standardize this: Simplified Wireless Communication) Discrete sensor…
Read MoreHappy New Year
I know January 1st is a ways off, but we’re looking forward to the 2013 free one-day training class schedule now. We’ve selected the cities we’d like to teach in next year and are working diligently on finding venues. We haven’t announced these anywhere else yet, so here is your “sneak peak” at where were…
Read MorePROFINET Project Webinar
If you’ve attended a PROFIBUS one-day training class, you’ve watched as we walked you through a PROFIBUS DP project and then a PROFIBUS PA project. Now we have scheduled a webinar to walk you through PROFINET in the same way. Drawing on my old OEM and System Integrator experience, I’ve created a PROFINET project step-by-step.…
Read MoreIT and Automation Synergies
“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language,” George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have said. I said something similar in my first year of blogging: IT and engineering – two organizations separated by common technology. One of my pet peeves then, as it is now, is the notion…
Read MoreThe future of PROFINET
To finish up comments from the Minneapolis PROFINET one-day training class, in addition: “Future of PROFINET. What are they working on now?” Good question. PROFINET is stable; the specification has been at version 2.3 for a couple years now. But that does not mean there is not more to do – just not at the…
Read MoreA chip off the old PROFINET
I’m just back from Minneapolis and a very full PROFINET one-day training class there. I really enjoy reviewing the Course Evaluations – not because they’re always positive (although there’s a lot of that), but because there is always food for thought. The comment that caught my eye from Minneapolis: “Talk about the PROFINET chips, specifically,…
Read MorePROFINET infrastructure by design
Over on the Belden blog Brian Oulton was accused of being snarky. (Actually, I’m a fan of snarky.) Anyway, in Infrastructure – More than a Big Word he said, “You’ll see a lot of discussion from Belden about industrial Ethernet infrastructure. That’s code for ‘a network you designed’ and the opposite of ‘a bunch of…
Read MoreStrength. Scope. Power.
“Strength. Scope. Power.” That’s the tagline for one of our landing pages on www.allthingsprofinet.com Each word summarizes unique benefits of using PROFINET and the differentiating features that support them. Allow me to explain. First, STRENGTH When we say “strength” we are talking about the strength of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET technologies and the international PI…
Read MorePROFINET Applications in Cars and Planes
The automotive industry has long been a user of PROFIBUS and PROFINET. Now amusement park cars are using PROFINET, too. The last time I was at Disneyland, the new “Cars” area was under construction. Now it’s done and it uses PROFINET and PROFIsafe. The cars in the Radiator Springs Racers report their position wirelessly using…
Read MoreThe EtherNet/IP FUD-sicle – Melted Again
The EtherNet/IP folks just can’t stop talking about PROFINET… and just can’t stop getting it wrong. It’s almost like they’re deliberately misrepresenting PROFINET. The latest example is in the Industrial Ethernet Book article “Working successful motion control via standard Ethernet.” The article has no new FUD*; I’ve been calling them out on this same thing…
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