Posts Tagged ‘profinet’
The Big Lie: SUE
The Big Lie is a propaganda technique. It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf as a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. [So begins the Wikipedia article Big Lie.] The Big Lie has been widely practiced…
Read MoreAsset Management Convergence
Two diverse newsletters recently converged in my email inbox to make me think about asset management. The first one was an e-newsletter from Chemical Processing magazine. (I’m not sure how I got on their mailing list, but once in a while I see something germane to PROFIBUS and PROFINET.) “The Asset Management Benchmark Report: Moving…
Read MoreHype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
I love graphs. Clicking on an article in a recent email newsletter brought me to “The Wireless Hype in Process Automation” by Dieter Schaudel at ControlGlobal.com. The wireless part hooked me, but the graph of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies really grabbed me. It takes us from the Technology Trigger over the Peak…
Read MoreFUD Dissection Part 2
When I was a new manager (way back when) I had a troublesome employee – Derris was a bit curmudgeonly [Encarta definition: curmudgeonly: somebody who is irritable or stubborn: somebody considered to be bad-tempered, disagreeable, or stubborn]. I consulted with the president of the company trying to figure out how to deal with him. The…
Read MoreFUD Dissection Part 1
You may recall that I recently received a document comparing Ethernet/IP and PROFINET that was passed out at a Rockwell Automation Ethernet/IP “Lunch and Learn” according to the person who passed it on to me. (I initially blogged about the piece here, prompting a response from Gary Mintchell which prompted a few comments to Gary’s…
Read MoreThe Fickle Finger of FUD*
Someone sent me a handout from a Rockwell lunch and learn session that compared Ethernet/IP and PROFINET. It is so wrong that it will take me some time to compose the corrections. But in the meantime, I was amused by the last line of this FUD piece, under “Notes (Other Competitors)”: “Modbus TCP: Primary pusher…
Read MoreRecommended Reading
Wireless segue into today’s recommended reading list: There is an excellent case study in The Industrial Wireless Book showing how wireless is being used in a giant frozen food storage center. Adding to the typical reasons for wireless (moving equipment) is the temperature, a constant -25 degrees C. For a real world example of the…
Read MoreNews from Nuremberg
There were plenty of press releases pronounced in press conferences at the SPS Drives Show, but the real news was what was waiting to be discovered in conversation in the aisles and booths. We’ll see how long I stay awake here on the flight home to set down what I learned. PROFINET chips. Siemens says…
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