PROFIBUS International has released a test specification for PROFInet Certification. This guideline will help machine and plant builders, integrators and manufacturers ensure that their products and systems comply with the PROFInet specification, the organisation's object-based standard for multi-vendor, plant-wide integration of distributed automation systems. By taking advantage of a number of established IT standards such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, COM/DCOM, XML and defining a standard interface between the automation objects, PROFInet reduces the engineering overhead in design and installation of distributed automation systems.

Published in Embedded Systems (Europe) April 2002