Posts Tagged ‘profinet’
PROFINET News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011
The PROFINET news that jumped out at me included controllers and chips. The PROFINET wall featured more controllers than ever. Of course there were controllers from Siemens and Phoenix Contact. And we’ve seen Omron with PROFINET… and ABB. But this is the first year I’ve seen controllers from PI North America members Mitsubishi and GE…
Read MoreI Am PROFINET
At the PI North America General Assembly Meeting we shot a video called I Am PROFINET. The production crew gave us a few lines to say including one fill-in-the-blank line. The creative folks then took those clips to the editing room and this is the result: What do you think? –Carl Henning
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 MorePROFINET Development Tools
How did it get to be three weeks since the PI North America General Assembly Meeting ended?! It was an exciting time and probably featured the best presentations in memory. (And my memory goes back to the very first one in 1995!) Over the next couple posts, I’ll fill you in on what you missed.…
Read MoreDouble Your Pleasure, Double Your PROFINET
North American users say they expect to double their use of PROFINET within three years according to a recent IMS Research study. When I received an announcement about the study from its author, John Morse, I knew that as a non-profit we could not afford to actually buy the study. So I asked John if…
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 MoreIt’s about Community
I’m on my way back from a meeting of organizations within the PI community (PI = PROFIBUS and PROFINET International) in Lucerne, Switzerland. Almost all parts of the world were represented by their Regional PI Associations, PI Competence Centers, PI Test Labs, and PI Training Centers. The current numbers of those organizations is 27, 40,…
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 MoreSlap! I could have had a …
Slap! I could have had a … no, not a V-8, a PROFINET backbone. That was the reaction of a student at the Greenville PROFINET one-day training class who recently installed a PROFIBUS DP backbone. Well, actually, what he wrote on the Course Evaluation form under the “In greater detail” section was: “PROFIBUS vs. PROFINET. …
Read MorePROFINET and PROFIBUS
I always come into the transition from one year to the next thinking “I’m off the road; I can get caught up on blogging.” Good theory. Instead I’ve been scrambling to get ready for our PROFINET and PROFIBUS one-day training classes for 2011. The PROFINET Training Manuals are at the printers; the CDs are pressed. …
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