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PROFINET at the ARC Forum
One hundred attendees of the ARC Forum in Orlando stayed for the last morning’s sessions on PROFINET (despite weather-inflicted travel woes). The session expanded on ARC’s theme of the information driven enterprise by showing how PROFINET enables the information driven enterprise. Three PI North America Board members described their focus on PROFINET. They were introduced…
Read MorePROFINET Classes, Quantitatively Speaking
We finished our second free PROFINET one-day training class on February 18 in Birmingham. The first one was earlier in February in San Diego (see PROFINET – Not Pregnant Enough in San Diego). I posted some results from the course evaluations in San Diego, but those were qualitative. With two classes done, I decided to…
Read MorePROFINET – Not Pregnant Enough in San Diego
Last week marked the kickoff of our 2014 one-day training classes with the San Diego class. Everything went pretty smoothly considering we have a new approach this year. We jump right into the “How do I” sections after a short introduction. Some of those sections include a behind the scenes look at how PROFINET does…
Read MorePROFINET for Network Geeks (and Those Who Want to Be)
Networks are usually represented by a seven-layer model, the ISO/OSI Reference Model. In the Ethernet world, the seven layers collapse to four. PROFINET uses all four, but not all the time. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves; let’s start at the beginning: the seven layer model. Here’s the seven-layer model with the layers labeled and…
Read MorePROFINET Executive Leadership Forum at ARC Forum
PI North America will be sponsoring a track at the ARC Forum in Orlando in February. This follows our successful PROFINET Executive Leadership Forum in 2012. (See news and blog posts.) In 2012, we corralled an impressive array of speakers on topics of general interest to manufacturers. We followed this with PROFINET-specific user stories. This…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: PI Booth 2
PROFINET and PROFIBUS at every turn… in the vendor kiosks and PI features around the PI Booth at SPS. Here’s a photo gallery “look around” (click to enlarge and start slide show): And finally, a shortened, but still boring, robot video: –Carl Henning
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: PI Booth
There were familiar PROFINET and PROFIBUS features of the PI Booth: PROFINET Wall, PROFIBUS Wall, Forum, Lounge, and member kiosks. Here’s the overview: Let’s take a look around, starting with the PROFINET Wall: The PROFIBUS wall features a little PROFINET in process applications, too: Also on the PROFIBUS wall was an example of the ability…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: Press Conference
The second morning, before the show started, was the PI Press Conference. Even though it is conducted mostly in German, the PI North America staff was in attendance. (Maybe you followed my Tweets live from the press conference: @AllThingsPROFI.) Karsten Schneider, PI Chairman, introduced the event with a reminder of the global strength of the…
Read MoreSPS/IPC/Drives Show 2013: News
Thanksgiving is past; Black Friday is just a memory. So, it’s time for the SPS/IPC/Drives Show wrap-up from a PROFINET and PROFIBUS perspective. This will definitely take a bunch of posts! There were several big news stories. Emerson was showing their redundant PROFINET module for DeltaV. This joins their redundant PROFIBUS module. This was their…
Read MoreNext Year in …
Next year in… not Jerusalem, but in 16 cities around North America for free PROFINET one-day training classes. This will be the first place you see our plans for 2014: City Month San Diego February Birmingham February Houston March Greenville March Dayton April Las Vegas April Kansas City April Boston May Milwaukee June Cleveland June…
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