Having various field equipment connected via Profinet—all tied back to one common platform—provides for effective facilitywide monitoring and maintenance on an ongoing basis. “The diagnostic capabilities of Profinet make it a very good tool for information and analysis,” adds Rob Remeika, lead automation manager and safety system expert at Blackrock. “You can get more information faster, and you can plug in anywhere.” Wilton says operators at the plant also like Profinet’s trending and alarming system. “It is quite simple and yet effective. We hardly had to do any training. They were able to run tasks and reorder them while the software was using the analysis tool, which enabled instant changes with quick results.”