NEWS & EVENTS
MARKET LEADERS
PROFIBUS & PROFINET INTERNATIONAL
Practical Aspects of PROFINET, PROFIBUS and IO-Link
Long before the advent of the Industrial
Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and
“Smart Manufacturing” a group of leading
equipment manufacturers and technical
universities came together with the goal
of helping German industry automate and
standardise as many production processes
as possible and link them effectively to
IT management systems. This was the
beginning of PROFIBUS, closely followed
by PROFINET and IO-Link.
Now with nearly 80 million nodes installed
worldwide, PROFINET, PROFIBUS and
IO-Link are truly market leaders, providing
state of the art digital communications
addressing all the needs of manufacturing
and process industries, significantly
lowering capital expenditure on installation,
commissioning and maintenance.
LEARN MORE ABOUT PROFINET,
PROFIBUS AND IO-LINK
PI UK is organising a number of free-toattend
training opportunities in Birmingham
(April 28), Scotland (May 27) and Belfast
(June 23). These events are designed
to address the opportunities and key
practical issues arising from the use of
PROFINET, PROFIBUS and IO-Link digital
communications technologies in automated
manufacturing and process industry
applications, paying particular attention to
Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT).
Supported by an exhibition with
demonstrations of actual tools used in
configuration and maintenance, these
events will cover key application areas
such as control systems and energy
management, pulp & paper, chemical,
utilities, pharmaceutical, mechanical
handling and logistics, robotics, automotive
engineering, electrical and electronics
assembly, packaging and printing, from
system design and safety & security
considerations through to fault-finding and
maintenance.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The seminar and exhibition will be of
great value to Designers, Production/
System Engineers, Instrument Technicians/
Engineers and C&I Engineers involved in
the design, operation and maintenance of
modern automated factories and process
plant.
ABSTRACTS FROM THE
SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
INTRODUCTION TO PI GROUP –
INCLUDING HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW
SUPPORTED TECHNOLOGIES
An overview of the Group’s structure and
global representation, taking a look at
the protocol basics and their differences,
plus showing the progress of the number
of installed devices from the group’s
supported technologies and relating these
figures to their market share.
NETWORK GATEWAY TECHNOLOGY
A vendor-independent overview of
how to connect PROFINET networks to
existing fieldbuses and expose the data
to IoT technologies using OPC-UA. This
presentation, including live demonstrations,
will take a “how it’s done” approach
using products from several well-known
manufacturers and will include:
• Profinet - Profibus DP
• Profinet - Profibus PA
• Profinet - CANOpen
• Profinet - IO-Link
• Profinet - OPC UA
PROFINET NETWORK DESIGN
It is widely accepted that the most important
decisions are made at the design stage of
a project. This presentation examines the
fundamental principles of good network
design for PROFINET systems, although
many of the ideas are applicable to
PROFIBUS and other networking systems.
The presentation will discuss the main
factors that must be considered at the
design stage of an automation system.
Practical examples will show how facilities
for health checking, fault-finding and
maintenance can have a crucial impact on
plant availability. The presentation will also
examine how properly thought out network
monitoring and redundancy can drastically
affect plant up-time and thus profitability.
INDUSTRIAL NETWORK
COMMISSIONING & TESTING
Take a walk through the process of
certifying a new PROFINET (or any other
industrial Ethernet) product against the
standards and see how easy it can be, then
look at a few gotchas that can easily be
avoided by careful planning. Learn how to
simplify the process of testing both cabling
and networks in Industrial Ethernet networks
that utilise the PROFINET protocol, how to
prevent network failures and resolve cable
and network issues faster.
PROFIBUS AND PROFINET DEVICE
CONFIGURATION TOOLS.
A look at the available device configuration
tools and their development including the
move to unify the different types into one
format – FDI.
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