PROFINEWS UK Masthead
Issue 26 - January 2011
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Upcoming Certified training opportunities

The next opportunity to get fully PROFIBUS trained and Certified to Engineer level is not until 14th March when MMU's will present their next Certified PROFIBUS Training week.

In the meantime however, it will still be possible to get prepared by taking the Certified Installer Course on the 19th of January, followed by the Commissioning and Maintenance course on the 20th.

The PROFIBUS Training week in March follows 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, the newly-introduced System Design 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 for any of these events, please download the Registration Form and return to [email protected] or call Ann on +44 207 193 8018 to check availability.

New! PROFINET Video

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A video introducing the technology has been uploaded to the PROFIblogger channel.

View it now at http://www.us.profibus.com/profiblog/


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Happy New Year!

 

Welcome to the first 2011 edition of 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

2011 Free Seminar Series

Following seven successful years of annual conferences, PROFIBUS UK is delighted to announce a new event format starting in 2011.
 
Recognising that in this new era of austerity it will be difficult for our customers to get to every event they need, we have decided to ramp up and spread out our popular Free Seminar series - including aspects of the Conference that everyone appreciated most: the practical demonstrations, professional "how to" presentations and real-world case studies.
 
We're planning on presenting 7 events during 2011. Two will be in the south of England, one in Manchester and 4 in Scotland. Three of the events will cover Factory Automation, 3 will cover the Process Industries while the Manchester event will focus on Safety and Security across the broad industrial spectrum.

What delegates thought of our free seminars

Here are just a few of the comments we received from delegates that attended these events:

"Very informative event ... with excellent demonstrations and presentations."
"Excellent organisation, venue etc. Presenters all very knowledgable and enthusiastic. "
"Good positioning of Profibus, Profinet, Profienergy and Profisafe."
"Very informative, great way to introduce the new functions."
"Very useful few hours that helped my understanding. Thank you."
"Very informative with lots of valued information which was of a level understandable by new experts."
"Very good for my time"
"Very good overview of all aspects that must be considered. Very well structured."
"Thanks again for an excellent 2 days in Manchester. I found the "networking" opportunities to be at least as valuable as the presentations  and demos ( and they were pretty useful!)."

Watch this space for further details.
New PROFINET Documents available

The following PROFINET documents have been published and can be found on the Profibus website:

Test Specification for PROFINET IO Devices

2.372; V2.2.4; December 2010
PI members can download the document here


Test Specification and Test Cases for PROFIenergy

2.472; V1.0; August 2010
PI members can download the document here


GSDML Specification for PROFINET IO

2.352; V2.2.5; September 2010
PI members can download the document here


PROFINET XML Viewer

With the new GSDML Specification, a new version of the PROFINET XML viewer is available: V2.2.5; November 2010.

PI members can download the software here

Members of Regular Grade and higher can download these documents free of charge using their logon and password. Members of Regular Grade and higher can download these documents free of charge using their logon and password. Non members can purchase the documents using the downloadable pricelist.


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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 Membership Application with complete list of benefits and costs.
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Help us understand what PROFINET means to you and your markets through our on-line survey. It'll only take ten minutes and you could influence PROFINET's direction in the future! You could also win an iPod Nano, an iPod Shuffle or a free copy of Manfred Popp's excellent book 'Industrial Communication with PROFINET'!

To do the survey: www.profinet.com/survey