Posts Tagged ‘profinet’
PROFINET Introduction Video
A PROFINET video introducing the technology has been uploaded to the PROFIblogger channel: –Carl Henning
Read MoreUse of Hard Wiring Is Down
The use of hard wiring is down according to Control Design’s recent survey of their readers, primarily machine builders it seems. Video: Market Intelligence Report: Sensors & Vision Part 1. From 2008 to 2010 the respondents saying they used hard wiring went from 78% to 57%. This is certainly a step in the right direction,…
Read MoreSharing PROFINET Data
One of the clever (if esoteric) features of PROFINET is the Tool Calling Interface (TCI). Challenge: you are using PROFINET, but you also have a separate software package to configure your drive functions. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could share data between PROFINET and the drive configuration tool? With TCI you can. During our…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Recap
I planned a comprehensive roundup of news from SPS/IPC/Drives with links to all the show news from around the web, but Eoin Ó Riain beat me to it. So just go there: http://instrumentsignpost.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/largest-automation-event-in-2010/ For PROFIBUS and PROFINET news you can revisit my posts: SPS Show Report 2010, Welcome to the PI Booth SPS Show Report…
Read MoreGet on the Bus
“Get on the Bus” was the working title I used for an article that became “Fieldbus in the Field,” the recent Applied Automation cover story. Jim Cahill’s recent post “Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results” made me realize that I had not linked to the article. The point of the article (as was the…
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 MoreiPar Server
The iPar Server is not an Internet tool for scoring your golf game; it’s a parameter repository to help in device replacement. One of the topics we don’t have time to cover in our PROFIBUS and PROFINET one-day training classes is the iPar Server. iPar is short for iParameter. It’s another example of the depth…
Read MoreNot Enough Detail in Toronto
Outside Toronto for the PROFINET one-day training class, I was in one of my old neighborhoods (I’ve lived a lot of places). On the downside, I was so wrapped up with the class that I did not have time to visit my old Avantis colleagues. On the upside, the class went very well. When the…
Read MorePROFINET or Ethernet in Montreal?
I’m just back from a week in Canada where we held PROFINET one-day training classes in Toronto and Montreal. I was really pleased by the engagement of the attendees in both cities. They asked really good questions. Here are a couple questions from Montreal: “Where should we use PROFINET instead of Ethernet?” “Tell me about…
Read MoreDenver PROFINET Bandwidth
Rocky Mountain High… er, highlights, from the PROFINET one-day training class in Denver on September 2: It seems bandwidth was on the minds of some attendees, especially the few IT folks there. We are always glad to see IT folks attend, of course – anything we can do to help foster IT’s understanding of automation…
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