Still a few free places available ...
Practical Aspects of PROFIBUS in Process - Frimley, Surrey, March 17th
This seminar addresses the key practical issues arising from the use of
digital fieldbus communications technologies in process and hybrid
industries. Covering the use of PROFIBUS PA in key application areas
such as Pulp & Paper, Chemical, Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Oil
& Gas today, it focuses on the practical aspects of using PROFIBUS
in process industry applications from system design and hazardous area
considerations through to maintenance and fault-finding.
More information and event registration
or call Ann in Registration on 020 7193 8018 for last minute help.
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PROFIBUS Group supports Smart Instrumentation
We are supporting the IET's Smart
Instrumentation event on 27 April. Smart Instrumentation 2010 provides a forum for
safety critical industries to discuss how to overcome technical and security
hurdles associated with employing smart instrumentation in equipment.
Find out more and register
your place online at www.theiet.org/smart-instrumentation
Special pricing for PROFIBUS UK Members ...
Members of The PROFIBUS Group get the reduced IET member rate. To claim this, members should
register using the fax-back registration form, and write "Profibus
member" in the space for IET membership number.
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Contact The PROFIBUS Group or tel:
:: 00 44 208 144 9597
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Greetings!
Welcome once more to PROFINEWS UK, bringing you all the news of events and opportunities surrounding the PROFIBUS and PROFINET community in the UK.
This issue is something of a Special, bringing news about some excellent opportunities to update your knowledge of PROFIenergy and PROFINET.
Bob Squirrell,
PROFIBUS Group Chairman
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 PROFINET, the future backbone network for
production networks
Product Development Course - May 5
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.
Manfred
Popp is the author of three influential books in the area, "The Rapid Way to
PROFIBUS", "The Rapid Way to PROFINET" and "Industrial Communication with
PROFINET".
 Meet Manfred Popp on 5 May at MMU if you want to find
out how PROFINET works and how PROFINET solves real-time communication
utilising and enhancing the existing Ethernet protocols.
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. Does your workforce have the
knowledge and skill to develop, design and maintain industrial networks?
This training course is for both PROFINET product developers
and for a wide range of audience who wants 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.
Full details of the Course and MMU facilities
Download Registration Form
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 PROFIenergy - How to
save industry energy
PROFIenergy to be featured at the Conference
Starting from
an initiative proposed by AIDA, the group of automotive manufacturing companies
in Germany, that sought to improve the energy efficiency of their automated
manufacturing plants, PROFIBUS International (PI) has developed and introduced
PROFIenergy. This is a solution for the energy management of production
equipment, which uses existing factory PROFINET communications to switch off
selected equipment components or even entire systems during normal idle times,
such as weekends and holidays, and also during other brief intervals and
unscheduled pauses.
PROFIenergy is an energy
savings profile that has been developed in co-operation with a working group
comprising many of the major equipment suppliers to the automobile automation
and production industries. PROFIenergy
allows the power consumption of automation equipment in manufacturing (such as robot
assembly cells, laser cutters and sub-systems such as paint lines) to be
managed over a PROFINET network. It offers an open and standardized means of
controlling energy usage during planned and unplanned breaks in production. No
external hard-wired systems are required, the profile can be integrated into
individual components by means of a firmware update, and implementation into the
first products is expected in 2010.
PROFIenergy technology will be
described and explained further at the annual PROFIBUS and PROFINET User
Conference, scheduled for 29-30 June 2010 at Stratford-on-Avon, alongside
several other papers that discuss how PROFIBUS and PROFINET systems can be
integrated into energy management programmes, particularly in relation to
energy efficient drives. This major convention for users and potential
users of modern automation systems offers the choice of three parallel
styles of presentation, for each delegate to create the most effective and
relevant learning experience in relation to his plant and experience. These
three streams offer technical and user experience presentations; hands-on
practical training and demonstrations of the hardware, fault finding techniques
and remote diagnostics; and thirdly an exhibition of equipment from relevant
suppliers, where experts and presenters will be on hand to explain how to apply
their solutions on your plant application.
The Conference is an ideal venue
for plant managers, engineers, instrument technicians and automation
professionals to meet PROFIBUS and PROFINET users from different companies or
industries, to discuss the benefits and techniques that have been applied in
different situations: it is also an ideal way to introduce colleagues to the
technology, and for them to learn about the practical aspects of applying and
using PROFIBUS on a typical plant, in advance of their own automation or energy
saving projects.
More about the PROFIBUS and
PROFINET User Conference can be found on the conference website where a a
registration form is available.
More about PROFIenergy
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Come and Join Us!
PI is the largest automation organization of its
type in the world, with a network of regional offices and
over 1400 globally-based member companies. PI also has a network of competence
centers, training and test organizations that contribute to and support
developers, integrators and end users. No other fieldbus organization has a 'community'
better able to support the automation market and its end users with
solutions designed to help manufacturing enterprises maximize profits.
So why not join us? It's relatively inexpensive
and brings many attractive and cost-saving benefits.
Download
complete Up to Date
list of benefits and costs
Download
Membership Application
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