A new and improved PROFIdrive profile tester is now available. Manufacturers building drives or encoders according to the PROFIdrive Application Profile now have an easy path to ensure conformity.

How does open, integrated safety enable a competitive advantage versus traditional practices? And with the focus on safety increasing in recent years, is there a way to make safety easier to manage and deploy? Here follows a look at PROFIsafe -past, present, and future.

Not sure what PROFIsafe is or how it works? Need to get up to speed quickly on the world's most installed functional safety network? Here are some resources to gain more knowledge –from very short to in-depth.

An FDI Plugfest was held in Berlin on July 13-14. Plugfests are a popular opportunity for members to test their FDI Devices and FDI Hosts together in an organized but informal environment. This was the 3rd such FDI Plugfest, with more in the works.

Resident PROFI-expert Carl Henning offers up some historical perspective on automation -50 years worth! Included are links to some of his more popular articles over the years... and a farewell.

Rigorous testing and certification ensures PROFINET devices 'just work' on the plant floor. Why then hold Plugfests? Because they allow device manufacturers to test PROFINET 'systems' as a whole.