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Fieldbus systems, Fibre-optic systems
News Release from: The Profibus Group | Subject: June Conference
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 April 2008
Practical hands-on workshops for
Fieldbus users
Practical demonstrations of fieldbus-based system health monitoring and diagnostics will be presented in the workshop sessions organised for the annual UK PROFIBUS and PROFINET User Conference in June
This conference will use a multi-stream presentation approach, to allow delegates to choose attendance at either the main Conference, the Workshops or the Exhibition In parallel with the main two-day conference, which presents the latest technology developments in fieldbuses, and examples of PROFIBUS and PROFINET applications, there will be a set of workshop presentations providing a hands-on practical approach
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 4 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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These Workshop sessions will demonstrate the application of diagnostics and health checking tools, in four sessions covering both PROFIBUS PA and DP installations, and PROFINET installations.
These are the procedures that would be used during commissioning or troubleshooting on fieldbus installations, and involve health monitoring of both the sensors and the system wiring.
The PROFINET diagnostics will be presented by Vladimir Kulla of Siemens, where he is responsible for PROFINET software development, and also for the Certification Laboratory and PI Competence Centre in Prague.
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The session describing health checking on a PROFIBUS PA segment will be run by Thomas Klatt of Pepperl + Fuchs, who has been mainly responsible for the technical training and documentation at P+F.
Thomas will also provide one of the presentations at the main conference, discussing the use of PROFIBUS PA in hazardous area applications, which will cover the advantages and disadvantages of FISCO and FNICO based systems, and compare them with the high power trunk concept.
Andy Verwer will be responsible for the Workshop that discusses PROFIBUS DP Health Checking: Andy will be well known to UK PROFIBUS users as the lead consultant in the UK PROFIBUS Competence Centre, and a Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering.
MMU have provided support and training in instrumentation and control for the local and national industry for over 30 years, in the form of short courses, consultancy, feasibility studies and software development for control system training, and PI were delighted to have appointed them as the UK's certified PROFIBUS Competence Centre in 1997.
As one of the 30 International PROFIBUS Competence Centres, MMU offers an extensive range of PROFIBUS consultancy and training services, including courses for Certified PROFIBUS Engineer and Certified PROFIBUS Installer, the latter designed at the University: MMU will shortly reach the milestone of 100 PROFIBUS Installer courses presented.
Andy has now trained over 1000 technicians and engineers as certified installers, and over 150 certified PROFIBUS engineers, at MMU and on-site in locations as far afield as Southern Africa, Singapore and Australia.
Some of this experience will be passed on in a presentation to the first day of the main conference session, discussing the most common errors that should be avoided in PROFIBUS installations.
In the fourth Workshop there will be a combined practical hands-on session run by Andy Smith of Endress + Hauser and Mark McCormick of Siemens Process Control, showing how to use PROFIBUS PA engineering tools with their products and systems.
The same four sessions will be repeated on both days of the conference.
The UK PROFIBUS and PROFINET User Conference is scheduled for Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June at the Stratford Manor Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon near Birmingham, UK.
Other equipment will be demonstrated in the simulated plant installations on the stands at the associated exhibition of PROFIBUS and PROFINET equipment suppliers.
For the full conference agenda and delegate registration forms please visit the website.
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