The first rounds of Certified PROFINET Engineer trainings have occurred in the last few months, notably training participants on PROFINET PA. The PROFINET PA portion focuses on bringing PROFINET into hazardous areas via Ethernet-APL.
In the wake of the success of its first edition, Consorzio PI Italia's event dedicated to IO-Link technology is back. On October 1, at Palazzo de' Rossi, near Bologna, the event "IO-Link: From the Field to the Cloud. Second Edition" will occur.
PI had a 300 square meter booth in Hall 9 –this year with a refreshed exhibit concept. While we continued to provide an overview of our PI technologies and offered our member companies the opportunity to showcase their products at our booth (355 devices from 79 vendors) via company kiosks, this year we also took the opportunity to attract “future OT experts”.
HMS Networks Dubai, UAE was audited for PROFIBUS-Basic, -Installer and -PA module. The company was successful in their application to become a PITC for PROFIBUS.
PI North America, in cooperation with the PROFI Interface Center, organized the third successful North American PROFINET Plugfest. It was hosted by Phoenix Contact in Houston, TX on September 19-20. Twenty engineers from nine companies brought six controllers and more than a dozen I/O devices to the Plugfest.
On Thursday October 5, 2023, PI North America hosted its third and final IO-Link User Workshop of the year in the United States. The event was held in Minneapolis, MN and was a huge success, attended by well over 100 people.
The company Adeptor, in Norway recently passed the accreditation process to become a PI Competence Center for PROFINET. Separately, ifak e.V., in Germany celebrated its 25th anniversary as a PI Test Lab, with particular focus on process control.
With the rapid growth and now more than 80 members in China, the IO-Link Community has accredited a new IO-Link Test Lab: Hefei Onsoon - first test lab outside Germany. Find out more about this successful accomplishment.
