The PROFIBUS Group’s UK June conference was a great success with a wide range of presentations covering PROFIBUS and PROFINET in depth. PROFINET was very much to the forefront with presentations covering PROFINET for machine builders, PROFINET and PROFIcloud for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and PROFIBUS and PROFINET a Perfect Match made in Karlsruhe presented by James Powell, author of “Catching the Process Fieldbus”. The PROFINET and Process Industry theme was also very much to the fore in the hands-on workshops that ran alongside the main conference, where workshop W04 addressed the practical issues of how to use PROFINET in the Process Industries.
Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things was, unsurprisingly, the theme of Simon Keogh’s enlightening keynote address showing what an important part PROFINET had to play in the 4th Industrial Revolution and the Factory of the Future. It truly is a technology whose time has come.
Other important topics covered were Safety & Security, with an informative presentation from Mark Carter of BAE Systems, where system and cyber security are of major importance hence their choice of PROFIBUS and PROFINET for mission-critical applications. Peter Brown of Siemens also addressed the subject, with a presentation showing how PROFIsafe is optimised for functional safety and security in industrial systems.
There was also a presentation from Roger Marlow of the Water Industry Mechanical Engineering Standards group (WIMES), who revealed the why and how of the UK’s water industry’s decision to standardise on PROFIBUS.
All of the presentations can be viewed and downloaded from the Conference website at www.profibusgroup.com/programme
The next opportunity to attend a live PROFIBUS and PROFINET event will be in Sheffield on October 14th . The event is free to attend. Click here for more information.
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