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.
Hopefully our presenters will guide the delegates through the design process, component selection and methods of interconnection used, whilst the network is being built – in front of your own eyes! This challenge has been taken up by three presenters who are also involved in other lectures at the conference, as they are renowned experts in the field: Mark Cargill of MWH Consulting, Scott Davis of Tycon Automation Ltd, and Dennis van Booma of Procentec in Holland. Hopefully their reputations will still be intact, when the network they construct springs into life!
For more information on the PROFIBUS and PROFINET User Conference, the suppliers and the exhibition, please consult www.profi-bus.co.uk or contact PROFIBUS UK on 020 8144 9597, or admin@uk.profibus.com.
Information about the presenters:
Mark Cargill is well known to delegates at earlier PROFIBUS conferences: previously Principal Electrical Engineer at Enpure, a contracting company in the water and wastewater industry, Mark has now taken a role in the in the Field Comms and PROFIBUS Knowledge Support Team at MWH Consulting, to further help develop and share best practice. In the main conference Mark will present a paper discussing how to “Design your PROFIBUS network for future expansion”, a problem faced many times in his water industry career.
Scott Davis has been heavily involved in the design of standard software function blocks for PROFIBUS and other intelligent systems that have been adopted by the leading Utility companies in the UK. As an associate lecturer working in partnership with Andy Verwer and Mark Cargill at the Manchester Metropolitan University PROFIBUS Competency Centre, Scott has been assisting with the delivery of the Certified PROFIBUS Installer and the PROFIBUS Maintenance and Commissioning courses at the university and on sites across the UK. Scott will also lead another workshop in this event, on the installation of PROFIBUS networks.
Dennis van Booma is the general manager and main contact at PROCENTEC Netherlands, the PROFIBUS competence centre and test laboratory for that region. Dennis has been involved in many large PROFIBUS projects and has developed the PROFIBUS and PROFINET education system. His inspiring PROFIBUS workshops have been presented to major companies involved in automation projects across the world. In Stratford, Dennis will also present a hands-on workshop with a PROFINET handheld tester and software tools In this session the participants will gain experience with the tools that are available for PROFINET installation and engineering.
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PI UK was founded as The PROFIBUS Group in 1993 to promote the use of PROFIBUS in the UK. More recently it has added PROFINET and IO-Link to the range of technologies supported by the group and is now known as PROFIBUS and PROFINET International UK, or PI UK for short. Registered in the UK as a Trade Association, PI UK is run by a Steering Committee elected by its members. It is not a limited company and hence has no company registration number, but it is fully accountable within the UK and is VAT registered, number GB 643240662.
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