by James Powell | Jun 27, 2020 | Troubleshooting
My PROFIBUS troubleshooting tool of choice is ProfiTrace by PROCENTEC – an excellent tool. In my toolbox, I also have a cable tester called the HP-25 by HI-PORT CONTROLS in the UK. If I am working on a new segment, I will take it out and use it. However, up until now,...
by James Powell | Jan 12, 2020 | Troubleshooting
Life as a maintenance person can be very difficult at times. They are presented with mysteries on a daily bases. One of my favorites is when there is a temporary PROFIBUS issue – you are called down to the machine but by the time you get there, everything is working...
by James Powell | Jun 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Recently, PROCENTEC released an aggregated TAP (Test Access Point) called EtherTAP for use with either Wireshark or Osiris running on Atlas or Mercury. I loved the device! It gave me the sense that I could finally see what was going on. Why did I feel this way? Before...
by James Powell | Jun 17, 2019 | General
Being a PROFIBUS PROFINET International (PI) Competence Center (PICC) and PI Training Center (PITC) for both PROFIBUS and PROFINET means that we need to stay current on what is happening. To do this, PI has a meeting of PICC and PITC once a year, and this year it was...
by James Powell | Mar 18, 2019 | How things work
Have you ever laid up at night wondering how Ethernet/IP prioritizes their messages or even if they ever did? Well maybe I was working too hard on writing my Ethernet/IP training course, or maybe I am a bit of a geek. Probably both. At this time, I was reading a...
