Posts Tagged ‘show report’

PROFINET was, of course, all over the show, including in the booths of companies that own or sponsor competing Industrial Ethernets! PROFINET’s theme in the PI booth was that PROFINET does more. It is faster now with 31.25 microsecond update times, but there’s a lot more to PROFINET. Like the only Industrial Ethernet with released…

I was able to visit the booths of many of our members, but also found many of them right in the PI booth: Tomorrow’s post: PROFINET! –Carl Henning

As usual the PI booth was well done and well attended.  In addition to the reception stand, the presentation theater, and the lounge, the booth sported functional areas for PROFINET PROFIenergy PROFIdrive PROFIsafe Process including PROFIBUS and PROFINET (and others!) IO-Link I’ll cover each of those in individual, subsequent posts, but here is an overview…

This year I am thankful that I got to spend Thanksgiving in the States and have turkey instead of turkey schnitzel.   Usually for Thanksgiving I’m in Nuremberg, but this year the SPS/IPC/Drives Show was the week after Turkey Day. This is the first in a series of posts on the show.  There is lots of…

The SPS/IPC/Drives Show is very important for industrial automation professionals.  I’ve been going long enough to see it grow in size and visitors (with many more international visitors lately).  Given that importance, here’s a summary of news from the show from me and many others: My posts: PROFIBUS News from SPS/IPC/Drives 2011 covers PROFIBUS in…

Since next year’s SPS/IPC/Drives Show is the week after Thanksgiving, you should plan to go.  It is THE show for industrial automation. The show runs for three days: November 27 through 29, 2012. Monitor the show website for updates and news: http://www.mesago.de/en/SPS/home.htm Tickets for the show are not expensive, but you can probably get them…

The worst part of the SPS/IPC/Drives show is getting there.  I was delayed for 4 hours on the way over since we had to land in Halifax, NS, Canada for a medical emergency on board.  On the way back I was happy to be delayed only an hour since I still made my connecting flight…