How do I find a Certified Installer or Engineer when I need one?
We're often asked this! Just go to the PROFITECH pages of the PI website and click on either Certified Installers or Certified Engineers.
And in case you need the services of an Accredited Company (Member companies of The
PROFIBUS Group that
are committed to using only
Certified PROFIBUS
Installers supervised by certified PROFIBUS Engineers in their PROFIBUS
projects, go to the Accredited Companies page on the UK's own website.
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New membership category - Student Member
In response to increased demand from engineering students wishing to jump start their careers around the World's Leading Fieldbus, we are pleased to announce the introduction of a new level of membership specifically for registered university students.
The membership benefits are intended to help students gain free access to all the documentation that they might need for their studies, plus generous discounts on additional training courses at our Competence Centre at MMU. Benefits include:
* Discount
on training and
consultancy services
* Free
download of specifications and
software - worth �1000s
* Access
to the Members' Forum
* Discount on PROFIBUS
publications
* Participate in specification
development
* Admission to Members' meetings
* Regular
updates on technology and events
Student Member costs just �99
+ VAT - with no joining fee! To apply, please download and return the Membership Application form.
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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.
Bob Squirrell,
PROFIBUS Group Chairman
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Upcoming Training Courses
There are still places available at MMU's next Certified PROFIBUS Training week from 19 - 23rd April. Following a new format designed to help candidates reach their fullest potential in just a week, the schedule covers the Certified PROFIBUS Installer course - which is pre-requisite, the Commissioning & Maintenance module and finally the Certified PROFIBUS Engineer Course.
Each course can be taken individually or as part of the full set, depending on the candidates' existing qualifications and ability.
To register, please download the Registration Form and return to admin@uk.profibus.com or call Ann on +44 207 193 8018 to check availability.
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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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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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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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