Technical Committees & Working Groups
PI is the umbrella organization for all Regional PI Associations (RPA) world-wide. PI has engaged PNO (PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e. V.), Germany to establish Technical Committees (TC) and Working Groups (WG) in order to define and maintain the open and vendor independent PROFIBUS and PROFINET technology.
PNO is a non-profit organization with its headquarter in Karlsruhe, Germany. All members of any RPA have the right to join the Technical Committees (TC) and Working Groups (WG) of PNO. Every member may take an active part in maintenance and further development of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET technology. This guarantees openness and vendor independence of these technologies.
The organizational structure of PNO is shown in the following diagram:
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Principles for Maintenance and Further Development
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PROFIBUS is an open and vendor independent technology internationally standardized in the IEC (e.g. IEC 61158 and IEC 61784) and are supplemented by guidelines and profiles. Control technology is evolving rapidly and the embedded intelligence of the field devices is increasing rapidly.
New trends such as Ethernet and TCP/IP and the use of PCs as automation platforms increasingly impact industrial networking. The PI communitie’s answer to these requirements is PROFINET. Therefore all principles of this Guideline are valid as well for PROFINET.
The established practice of learning by field experience in partnership with end users will be rigidly maintained, ensuring PROFIBUS remains proven technology meeting real market needs on time and without risks.
Therefore, PNO has established a qualified procedure for the maintenance and further development of the PROFIBUS/PROFINET technology. Every member has access to information about the ongoing developments and may use this information as a competitive advantage in the market. By joining the Technical Committees (TC) and Working Groups (WG), every member has the possibility to take an active part in the further development and maintenance of PROFIBUS and PROFINET.
All PROFIBUS and PROFINET specifications, guidelines, profiles, test and certification specifications (further referred to as Documents) are defined according to the following procedure:
- A WG is set up to give all interested parties the chance to participate in the technical work and to ensure a high level of expertise.
- It is the task of the TCs to co-ordinate the activities of the related WGs.
- When the WG has completely covered all related technical items including test and certification procedures (if required) it is requested to agree on a first committee draft of the new Document.
- The committee draft will be presented to the Board of Directors (BoD) which is in charge to decide upon the official ratification of the Document as a draft Document according to the established business model for that particular project
- The business model of the project defines when the draft will be published for comments to all RPA’s by the Business Office (BO). The review period usually lasts a reasonable period of time but no more than three months. The BO will establish a correspondent project on the PROFIBUS-Projects-Server https://www.profibus-projects.com to collect the comments Change Requests (CR).
- The business offices of all RPAs will inform all members that a new draft has been published and will ask the members for review.
- Comments from the members should be sent to the relevant project established on the PROFIBUS-Projects-Server https://www.profibus-projects.com. The responsible TC or WG leader will collect the CRs to be evaluated in the TC or WG.
- The TC or WG must take all comments into account and must decide upon which of the comments should be included into a revised committee draft.
- The TC or WG will work out a revised draft and will agree on a new committee draft of the Document.
- The revised committee draft will be presented to the Advisory Board (AB) which is in charge to decide upon the official ratification of the Document as a final Document.
- If the revised committee draft is accepted as a final Document, it will be published and the members are informed that a new final Document has been ratified.
- Drafts which are not accepted by the AB are redirected to the responsible TC or WG for further consideration.
The document 'Guidelines for the Technical Committees and Working Groups of the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO)' (TC/WG Guidelines) describes the rules for TC and WG.
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The PNO has drawn up the following 'Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy of the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO)' (IPR Policy) as a basis for dealing with copyrights and industrial property rights within the context of TC and WG. The work undertaken by the TC and WG is aimed at producing results (documents, software) that can be used by PI members and integrated into products. However, the work they do can sometimes involve issues of copyright or industrial property rights (patents and utility models respectively their applications).
The PNO aims to ensure that the results of the aforementioned work are made available to PNO members without license fees being charged. This IPR policy applies to all technologies specified by the PNO.
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Technical Committees
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TC1 - Test and Certification
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- definition and maintenance of the quality management system for the PROFIBUS test laboratories and the certification authority
- co-ordination of development of test procedures and test tools
- arbitration of conflicts
Chairman:
Dr. Manfred Patz
Softing AG
Richard-Reitzner-Allee 6
85540 Haar
GERMANY
Phone: +49 89 45656 0
Fax: +49 89 45656 399
Email: manfred.patz@softing.com
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TC2 - Communication Profiles
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Purpose:
Definition and Maintenance of the PROFIBUS Protocol stack.
Chairman:
Prof. Dr. Christian Diedrich
ifak Institut für Automation und Kommunikation e.V.
Steinfeldstr. (IGZ)
39179 Barleben
GERMANY
Phone: +49 39203 81 024
Fax: +49 39203 81 100
Email: christian.diedrich@ifak.eu
Purpose:
Definition and Maintenance of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET Application Profiles.
Chairman:
Dr. Raimund Sommer
Endress + Hauser Process Solutions AG
Christian-Merian-Ring 23
4153 Reinach
SWITZERLAND
Phone: +41 61 715 73 33
Fax: +41 61 715 73 01
Email:
raimund.sommer@solutions.endress.com
Purpose:
Definition and Maintenance of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET Application Profiles.
Chairman:
TC3 FA - Factory Automation Profiles
(WG2, WG4, WG6, WG7, WG8, WG9, WG12, WG15, WG16 + Safety/Security Relevant WGs)
Mr. Harald Hammon
SIEMENS AG
Automatisch and Drives IIA AS RD DH N
Gleiwitzer Str. 555
90475 Nürnberg
GERMANY
Phone: +49 911 895 4913
Fax: +49 911 895 15 4913
Email:
harald.hammon@siemens.com
Safety/Security Relevant
(WG1, WG5, WG18, WG19)
Dr. Wolfgang Stripf
SIEMENS AG
A&D AS FA TC
Östliche Rheinbrückenstr. 50
76187 Karlsruhe
GERMANY
Phone: +49 721 595 6577
Fax: +49 721 595 4176
Mobil: +49 172 736 6809
Email:
wolfgang.stripf@siemens.com
Purpose:
The TC 4 focuses mainly on the requirements and need of the process industry.
Chairman:
Achim Laubenstein
ABB Automation Products GmbH
Schillerstr. 72
32425 Minden
GERMANY
Phone: +49 571 830 1847
Fax: +49 571 830 1871
Email: achim.laubenstein@de.abb.com
Purpose:
Worldwide Marketing and Public Relations for PROFIBUS and PROFINET Technology.
Chairman:
Thomas Schott
SIEMENS AG, I IA AS FA
Gleiwitzer Str. 555
90475 Nürnberg
GERMANY
Phone: +49 911 895 2958
Fax: +49 911 895 4025
Email: t.schott@siemens.com
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Board of Directors/Advisory Board
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Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Freitag
Chairman
SIEMENS AG
A&D PT 2 BD
Gleiwitzer Str. 555
D-90475 Nuernberg
Phone: +49 911 895 4321
Fax: +49 911 895 154321
email:
freitag.joerg@siemens.com
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Bender
Technische Universität München
itm - Institut für Informationstechnik
Boltzmannstr. 1
D-85748 Garching bei München
Phone: +49 89 289 16400
Fax: +49 89 289 16410
email: bender@itm.tum.de
Dipl.-Ing. Klaus-Peter Lindner
Endress + Hauser Process Solutions AG
Christoph-Merian-Ring 23
CH-4153 Reinach
Phone: +41 61 715 7348
Fax: +41 61 715 7301
email:
klaus-peter.lindner@solutions.endress.com
The Advisory Board consists of the chairmen of the Technical Committees and the following Elected Representatives:
Dr. Thomas Albers
WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH
Hansastr. 27
D-32423 Minden
Phone: +49 571 887 0
Fax: +49 571 887 169
email: thomas.albers@wago.com
Christoph Behler
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
Niederlassung Deutschland
Gothaer Str. 8
D-40880 Ratingen
Tel.: +49 2102 486 2360
Fax: +49 2102 486 7170
email: christoph.behler@meg.mee.com
Jürgen George
Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH
Königsberger Allee 87
D-68307 Mannheim
Phone: +49 621 776 1542
Fax: +49 621 776 1108
email:
jgeorge@de.pepperl-fuchs.com
Gerhard Mutter
SICK AG
Sebastian-Kneipp-Str. 1
D-79183 Waldkirch
Phone: +49 7681 202 3381
Fax: +49 7681 202 3815
email:
gerhard.mutter@sick.de
Martin Müller
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
Produktbereich Automatisierung
Herrn Martin Müller
Flachsmarktstr. 8
D-32825 Blomberg
Phone: +49 52 35 300
email:
mmueller@phoenixcontact.com
Dieter Staniczek
FESTO AG & Co. KG
Ruiter Str. 82
D-73734 Esslingen
Phone: +49 711 347 4181
Fax: +49 711 347 54 4181
email: stc@festo.com
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