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News Release from: The Profibus Group | Subject: Test Specification for PROFInet Certification
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial Team on 28 March 2002

Profibus Test specification checks
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A Test Specification will help machine and plant builders, integrators and manufacturers ensure that their products and systems comply with the PROFInet specification.

PROFIBUS International has announced the availability of a Test Specification for PROFInet Certification This new Guideline will help machine and plant builders, integrators and manufacturers ensure that their products and systems comply with the PROFInet specification, the organisation's new object-based standard for multi-vendor, plant-wide integration of distributed automation systems

By taking advantage of a number of firmly established IT standards such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, COM/DCOM, XML and defining a standard interface between the automation objects, PROFInet reduces substantially the engineering overhead in design and installation of distributed automation systems.

Available now in English, the new guideline may be ordered from PROFIBUS UK on tel/fax 01489 589574 email profibus@btinternet.com as reference 2.222, price GBP72 (GBP36 for members of PROFIBUS UK) + PandP and VAT.

Other items covering PROFInet are also available including the Architecture Description and Specification, ref 2.202 and the actual software, which full Members of PROFIBUS International can download free of charge from the web at www.profibus.com.

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