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PROFINET and PROFIBUS Guru Manfred Popp to present PROFINET Product Development Course in the UK

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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

E-mail: admin@uk.profibus.com.
More details are available on the web at http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/ascent/training_courses/profinet_product_development/

 

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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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