Chances are that you are using either an IOS based mobile phone or and Android based phone. If you are using a IOS phone you are most likely using it running the latest OS version (9.x.x….) but if you are using an Android phone you may be running anything from 4.2 to 6.0 OS version. […]
Day: March 26, 2016
“Space Oddity” was the first Bowie song that I heard, it was haunting, beautiful and otherwordly. I heard it while looking for new stuff for the “radio” that was my responsibility in high school in the early eighties. The’”white thin duke” trend and fad still had to come. In those years I was a weird, […]
A few weeks ago, in order to get my family updated regarding Star Wars background details, we went through the original trilogy via Netflix. And after watching all the classic sequences, I started to think about the lessons in Process Automation that can be extracted from the original trilogy. No, really, I’m not under the influence […]
A common belief among the industry is that if you use fiber optics in a Hazardous Area, you are basically playing safe. The problem is that if you follow that belief, you could be potentially introducing an ignition source into your classified area. As most of the standards and regulations on explosion protection, the investigation […]
It was a decision taken by impulse. I was looking for a PITC (Profibus Certified Training Center) in order to get myself a certified Profibus trained professional certification and suddenly I had found one that was not too far away. At least I didn’t have to fly across an ocean. I have been doing Fieldbus […]
When I do trainings on Explosion Protection methods, there is usually a moment when some people in the audience seems to enter into the twilight zone: This usually happens when the presentation reaches the definition of the Ex “e” protection method. I usually start describing basic principles like the Explosion Triangle, the LEL and UEL concepts, the Flashpoint and MIE […]