PROFINET, the future backbone network for production networks
The PROFIBUS Group is pleased to announce that Manfred Popp, author of three influential books on industrial communications - The Rapid Way to PROFIBUS, The Rapid Way to PROFINET and Industrial Communication with PROFINET - will be presenting a PROFINET Product Development course in Manchester on 5th May.
The training course is for both PROFINET product developers and for a wide range of audience who want to know PROFINET and industrial Ethernet. The course content is carefully selected to fit into a one-day schedule and contains the most important aspects of PROFINET. The course has been delivered in Germany for a number of years and will be a unique experience for the UK audience.
PROFINET uses Industrial Ethernet as communication medium and has many advantages if you want to bring Ethernet and Internet to the factory floor. However, the office world where Ethernet has been so successful is very different from the industrial world where electrical shocks, humidity, high temperature, moving parts, and EMR are constantly present. Not only the cables, connectors, and switches have to be industrialised (e.g. using rugged and metal housing) but also the multiple protocols worked so well for the Internet have to be selected and extended to meet the requirements for determinism and speed. With both TCP/IP and real-time protocols, PROFINET will be the future backbone network linking lower level fieldbus instruments and upper level enterprise functions making information technology an increasingly integral part of the automation industry.
Manfred will show developers how PROFINET works and how PROFINET solves real-time communication utilising and enhancing the existing Ethernet protocols. The one-day course, to be presented at the PROFIBUS International Competence Centre at MMU covers: Ethernet basics PROFINET basics
Device model and addressing
From engineering to start-up
PROFINET: unsynchronised communication
PROFINET IO, RT classes, and UDP/IP communication
Data exchange, diagnosis and alarms
PROFINET: synchronised communication
Isochronous real-time
Static device description
Parameterisation via GSD
Dynamic device description
Tool Calling Interface (TCI)
PROFINET features and service
Redundancy, topology display
PROFIsafe, iPar-Server, device replacement without engineering stations
Development kits
The course costs just £195. To register, contact Ann Squirrell on 020 7193 8018
