PROFIBUS UK is delighted to announce that the 7th annual PROFIBUS and PROFINET User Conference will be held from 29-30 June 2010 at Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire. Following the successful theme established as a result of six years of positive delegate feedback, this user focused event will feature a comprehensive, multi-stream educational programme that will lead new users through both PROFIBUS and PROFINET, from the basic technology through to its use and application experience in real world industrial and process applications.
After less than one year of development time, PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) is now introducing PROFIenergy – a trendsetting PROFINET-based solution for energy management of production equipment.
In order to achieve a harmonized and standardized procedure for energy management, representatives of AIDA (the Automation Initiative of German Automobile Manufacturers) requested PI about a year ago to develop a solution. As part of this solution, equipment is to be switched off not only during idle times, such as weekends and holidays. Rather, it must also be possible to switch off individual equipment components or entire systems during brief as well as unscheduled pauses.
Following significant increase in demand for PROFIBUS products due to its overwhelming success with over 30 million nodes now installed worldwide, the The PROFIBUS Competence Centre at MMU has introduced a one-day course for product manufacturers and engineering companies that want to jump on the bandwagon and develop PROFIBUS products. This one-day course provides an overview of the technology plus details of the communication protocol, tools and methods to get you started correctly on development of your own PROFIBUS products. It covers in detail:
Karlsruhe, July 13, 2009: PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International) supports the activities of PROLIST® INTERNATIONAL e.V to standardize features for data exchange between manufacturers of process control devices and device users in feature lists. PROLIST INETRNATIONAL is an emerging, independent organization of users and manufacturers of automation devices, systems, and tools with the objective of providing feature lists to manufacturers and users to enable efficient planning, design, service, and procurement of electrical and process-control devices and systems. As part of an agreement, PI is providing PROLIST INETRNATIONAL with agreed-upon elements of the PROFIBUS specifications for use in the PROLIST feature lists, which will be published in the NAMUR recommendation NE 100, as well as for IEC standardization activities to harmonize with the eCl@ss System.
The PROFIBUS and PROFINET User conference, scheduled for June 16/17 in Stratford-on Avon this year, is proud to bring together some of the most experienced PROFIBUS engineers and lecturers from around the world. One workshop session, run by three PROFIBUS experts and lecturers not linked to any supplier, is entitled “Bringing it All Together”: here equipment from several different vendors will be built into a working network, during the workshop hands-on session. The objective is to demonstrate the open structure and interconnectivity of PROFIBUS by integrating a number of different devices into a small network. The network will be operated using a simple PROFIBUS master, giving basic control. Three communication technologies will be demonstrated: PROFIBUS DP, PA and also fibre optics. Just to make matters more like an existing site, an AS-i network will also be integrated into the system.
