New Videos

Two new videos help the understanding of PROFINET and PROFIsafe. From Indu-Sol comes a video that shows how PROFINET works by using a street traffic analogy. From PI we have a live demo of PROFIsafe working. PI maintains three YouTube channels to which viewers can subscribe.

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Giving Meaning to Data

The topic of Industrie 4.0 can be examined from many aspects that differ, above all, in their degree of complexity. At the core, however, it boils down to a simple formula: Data plus connectivity lead to increased productivity.

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Your Article Here?

One of the many benefits of PI membership is the invitation to have your product news or application story published in PROFINEWS. PROFINEWS has a subscriber base of 225,000 so publication here is a major benefit.

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FDI – Ready to Use

By accomplishing the development of FDI (Field Device Integration) technology PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) and its partner organizations have passed an extraordinary milestone. Not only because the technology will greatly facilitate the device integration in the future. But - and especially - because FDI is the joint result of a trusting and intensive network of manufacturers and organizations for industrial communication.

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Join Thousands of Mobile App Users!

To those of you reading this on the PROFINEWS App on your mobile device: Thanks! To the rest of you: Download the PROFINEWS App Today! After releasing Version 2 of our mobile App last month, users have been downloading it at a steady clip. The PROFINEWS App is the easiest way to stay up-to-date with all of the activities going on around the globe in the world of PI.

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Asset Management to the Last Device

The cutting edge thought process in manufacturing today is to use the automation network for more than just automation. That could mean using it for safety, energy management, embedded web servers or asset management. Asset management may be considered “old hat” in the manufacturing space, but under the influence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), new life is being breathed into the topic.

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