Posts Tagged ‘profinet’
23-minute Intro to PROFINET
I was one of four presenters at GlobalSpec’s virtual conference and exhibit. If you need a really brief introduction to PROFINET, the presentation is archived in the “Conference Center” there. I wasn’t able to answer all the questions, but look for a document with all the questions answered on the site as well.
Read MorePROFINET Certified Network Engineer Training
How do you gauge the growth of your favorite technology without an expensive market company study? (PROFINET being the technology; it’s my favorite.) One way is the number of people coming to the free one-day training classes. (An ever-increasing number.) A second is those taking the next step and clamoring for the next class –…
Read MoreWireless Ethernet Safety
One of the other questions that came up in Grand Rapids came up during the PROFINET section and related to safety. I thought it worth expanding on the answer to that. The question: “Can I use PROFINET over wireless in a PROFIBUS PA environment?” First, let’s be clear that we are talking about two different…
Read MoreProblem Solving in PROFINET Class
I started this on the plane back from Jacksonville and I’m finishing it on the plane to Newark for the Process one-day training class. (It’s tomorrow, May 14, at the Newark airport. We have arranged for free parking at the hotel.) In between I had to put the finishing touches on PROFInews North American Edition…
Read MorePROFINET Developer Tools (Hanover Fair 2009 Report 5)
The section of the booth devoted to the PI Competence Centers featured an outline of the PROFINET Design Process. A number of Development Tool providers were represented in the booth and at the fair: Hilscher, Siemens, HMS, NEC, KW-Software, IXXAT, and Molex among them. Here is Molex’s panel in the PI booth (next to PTO…
Read MoreProduct Updates (Hanover Fair 2009 Report 4)
In addition to the new PROFIsafe products I mentioned several posts ago, there were other new products as well. First up, a Phoenix Contact PROFIBUS Proxy with built-in 4-port switch, highlighted in green here. Shown among many other PROFINET devices from Phoenix Contact. Siemens also introduced its new PLC, the S7-1200. Karsten Schneider (former manager…
Read MoreTechnology Updates (Hanover Fair 2009 Report 3)
There was news of progress in a number of technology areas: IO-Link, wireless, PROFIBUS, and PROFINET. IO-Link products are appearing more rapidly. IO-Link is not a fieldbus, but allows digital communications over the device’s cable. This led me to characterize it as “HART for discrete.” Conventional devices can be interchanged with IO-Link devices easing the…
Read MorePROFINET in Austin
There were 45 of us in Austin for the PROFINET one-day training class. Not many compared to the previous day’s PROFIBUS class in Pittsburgh with 102, but still a very engaged group posing lots of questions for us. So many questions that we did not finish until 5:00 pm! Despite the late finish, most thought…
Read MoreIndustrial Ethernet Comparisons
EtherCAT held a seminar in our backyard (Scottsdale) this week and I could not pass up the opportunity to find out more about this technology. (I had already been to an Ethernet/IP seminar a couple years ago.) I did learn some new things about EtherCAT. And since we are reciprocating with a PROFINET one-day training…
Read MoreWebcast: Ethernet-Based Industrial Communication Protocols
I took part in a webcast sponsored by PTO member National Instruments that covered IEEE1588, PROFINET, and two other Industrial Ethernet protocols. If you want the 10-minute overview of PROFINET (and some others) you can view the archived version on the Automation World website at http://www.automationworld.com/webcast-5345.
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