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.
PROFIenergy, the vendor-neutral energy savings profile now available, allows operators to achieve effective energy management. The profile can be integrated into individual components (for example, robots, lasers, controllers, or drives) by means of a firmware update. PI is meeting the requests of users who called for a standardized operator input for parameterization, runtime, and diagnostics.
The working group, which includes device manufacturers and various institutes and users, placed special emphasis on the suitability of the profile for real-world application from the outset. This is an important requirement for rapid implementation of PROFIenergy in products and solutions. Based on the high level of customer interest, implementation into products is expected in 2010.
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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.
Where we supply to
Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, North America
Industries we supply to
Automation, Chemicals, Consultants, Components Electronics, Energy and Power, Food and Beverage, Glass Ceramics Cement, Metals and Minerals, OEM, Paper and Pulp, Pharmaceutical Cosmetics Toiletries, Plastics and Rubber, Recycling, Textiles, Tobacco, Water and Wastewater
