by James Powell | Jul 6, 2025 | Installation
In a previous post we discussed the retiring Siemens products and gave a few options for future replacements. This post goes into more detail about the replacement product options and includes the order numbers. Recently, Siemens announced the retirement of three key...
by James Powell | Jun 16, 2025 | Installation
Of course it does. Right? This sounds like a simple question. I would estimate that most Certified PROFIBUS Network Engineers and even most Certified PROFIBUS trainers would say, ‘Yes, of course it does.’ We all know that PROFIBUS using PROFIsafe was the first open...
by James Powell | May 28, 2025 | Installation
First, the bad news On October 1, 2024 Siemens posted this announcement about their PROFIBUS repeaters. “Milestone PM400 (announcement of product phase-out) was set on October 01, 2024 for the PROFIBUS standard and diagnostic repeaters, as well as the...
by James Powell | Oct 16, 2018 | Installation
Industry, at least, has figured out that using office grade switches in industrial settings is a really bad idea. Those who decided to try office grade switches soon figure out it is not a great idea after they have replaced 2 or 3 in a year. Cabling is not that...
