PROFINET Training – Certified PROFINET Network Engineering Course with Certified PROFINET Network Engineer Process Automation Module (CPNE-PA)

Learn the skills to design, install, commission, and troubleshoot PROFINET networks.

This course meets all the requirements of the Certified PROFINET Network Engineering course and the Certified PROFINET Installers course. The course ends with a written and practical test. Successful students of this PROFINET training will be certified by PROFIBUS and PROFINET International as a Certified PROFINET Network Engineer and a Certified PROFINET Installer.

This course illustrates practical installation issues, goes right down to the protocol/packet level, and includes detailed information on the bus parameters. You will also learn how to minimize the impact of EMC on the network and get hands-on experience with the latest PROFINET troubleshooting tools including; Wireshark, Netilities, and the permanent network monitor Atlas.

Upon completion of this PROFINET training, the student shall be able to:

• Design a PROFINET network
• Install and setup a PROFINET network
• Understand concepts for hazardous area including 2WISE-approach
• Decode a PROFINET packet and understand how the protocol works
• Understand the basic bus parameters

Course Outline:

• Introduction to industrial Ethernet
• Introduction to other Industrial Ethernet protocols
• Introduction to industrial Ethernet
• OSI 7-layer model
• Ethernet protocols
• Hubs, switches, routers, and firewalls
• Redundancy
• Network design
• Security
• Physical layer and installation
• Device model and profiles
• Setting up a PROFINET project
• Device integration via FDI
• Hazardous areas
• OPC UA
• IO-Link
• PROFINET theory
• Acyclic communications
• Diagnostic model
• Fault-finding strategies

Hands on Exercises

• Wiring lab
• Design lab
• Setting up a switch
• Configuring a PROFINET network
• Setting up APL devices
• Device integration using both PACTware and SIMATIC PDM
• Diagnostics lab
• Using Wireshark and other troubleshooting tools

Training Equipment

• IO-Controller (Codesys software running on a Raspberry Pi)
• IO-Devices include;
  • Helmholz TB-20 IO rack
  • Wago IO rack
  • Turck TBEN IO rack
  • Helmholz 8 port managed switch
  • Pepperl+Fuschs APL switch with PA Proxy
  • E&H Temperature transmitters (APL, PA, HART)
  • Thorsis isNet PROFINET to HART Proxy
• Anybus Diagnostic’s Atlas permanent monitoring system
• Anybus Diagnostic’s EtherTap
• Wireshark Protocol Analyzer

Demo Equipment:

• IO-Controller (Codesys software running on a Raspberry Pi)
• Indu-sol PROmash B8 switch for MPR ring
• Indu-sol PROFNET-Inspektor network monitor
• Turck TBEN IO-Link master

Class Day Information:

• Students will receive a certificate of attendance and 37.5 verifiable professional development hours
• Certificates as a Certified PROFINET Network Engineer and Certified PROFINET Installer. The certificates are given only if the student passes the in-class written and practical test.
• Attendees will receive a copy of ‘Catching the process Fieldbus – An introduction to PROFIBUS and PROFINET’ co-written by the instructor James Powell
• Attendees will receive a copy of ‘Industrial communication with PROFINET’ by Manfred Popp
• Class size is limited to a maximum of 8 students (2 students per training rack).

Course Duration

This course is five days long. Each day includes 7.5 hours of instruction which includes two 15-minute breaks and one 30-minute lunch break.

Class Dates:

• February 5-9, 2024. Location: Peterborough, ON (reserve a spot for February 5-6)
• On-site classes are available upon request

Course Cost:

• $4,042 per person, plus applicable taxes.

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