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SPS 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 MoreSPS Show Report 2010, PROFIBUS and PROFINET News
PI schedules a press conference at every SPS/IPC/Drives Show to highlight the news. The news this time included PROFINET in Process Automation, PROFIenergy Certification, and IO-Link standardization. PROFINET in Process Automation. PROFIBUS DP has long been a backbone for PROFIBUS PA. PROFIBUS DP and PROFIBUS PA use the same protocol but have different physical layers. …
Read MoreSPS Show Report 2010, Technologies in the PI Booth
Here is a pictorial tour of the PI booth, featuring the technologies presented. You can click any of the images below for a larger version. PROFINET. There were two PROFINET walls with many products. Here’s one of them: PROFIBUS. PROFIBUS still plays an important role, especially in Process Automation. Here are the two walls highlighting…
Read MoreSPS Show Report 2010, Welcome to the PI Booth
The SPS/IPC/Drives Show gets bigger every year. It is eclipsing the Hanover Fair as the premier global automation trade show. It would be nice to not have to travel to Germany over Thanksgiving week for it, but the North American shows are gone as I lamented before. The show itself is huge with 90,000 square…
Read MoreHanover Fair 2010 Report
Darn volcano! Kept me from experiencing Hanover Fair in person this year. But at least let me share my second-hand Hanover experience with you. The PI Booth was rather lonely early in the week: So that presented a good time to get photos of the PROFINET walls and the PROFIenergy wall: Activity picked up later…
Read MoreSPS Report 6: Walking the Show Floor
Although I spent most of my time at the SPS Show in the PI booth, I did get to visit the booths of some PTO members. I already mentioned Stahl, WAGO, Siemens, and Phoenix Contact. Here are some others: HMS was showing the PROFINET relatives in their Anybus family. These included boards for PROFINET RT…
Read MoreSPS Report 5: PROFIenergy
At the show PROFINET was ubiquitous, but I think the biggest news of the fair was PROFIenergy. First, PROFINET. Here is a ten-second pan of the PROFINET wall in the PI booth. And this is the PROFINET display at the Phoenix Contact stand: Now to PROFIenergy: PROFIenergy is an application profile for PROFINET that makes…
Read MoreSPS Report 4: PROFIsafe
I do not understand the slow acceptance of functional safety over the bus in North America. PROFIsafe has been around for more than 10 years. It covers functional safety for discrete, process, and motion control applications in the same system. It works on PROFIBUS and PROFINET. It works via wire or wireless. It accepts AS-I…
Read MoreSPS Report 3: IO-Link
IO-Link is a fieldbus-neutral, point-to-point connection and communication method for intelligent IO. I think of it as HART for discrete because it superimposes a digital signal over the regular wiring. More information on IO-Link is at www.IO-Link.com. And for my past posts on the topic, use the IO-Link tag. IO-Link was big again this year:…
Read MoreSPS Report 2: PI Booth Tour
Here is the reception area of the booth: (click for larger view) An video introduction to the booth by PI’s Tina-Maren Weith: A video walk through the booth (it’s called a “stand” here instead of a “booth”): –Carl Henning
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