2017

PITC/PICC Argentina: An account of our first five months

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The first PITC/PICC (PROFIBUS & PROFINET INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND COMPETENCE CENTER) located in Argentina started its operations in May 2017, with a Certified PROFIBUS DP PA Engineer course. Since that first time experience we have hosted two Certified PROFINET Engineer courses, a Certified PROFIBUS DP PA Installer course, a Certified PROFINET Installer course and finally, …

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PROFIBUS and PROFINET Regional News – July 2017: Help and support in Argentina

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News from around the world includes a new PI Competence Center and PI Training Center in Argentina, events in Brazil, and a Profibus & Profinet Day in Italy. Argentina The first PI Training Center (PITC) and PI Competence Center (PICC) was accredited by PI in Argentina at Autex S.A., a Siemens Premier Partner located in …

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Siemens approach to the Smart IO concept: the Simatic Compact Field Unit (Simatic CFU)

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(Snapshots from the near future: Part 4) Introduction: The Next Generation Control System Initiative A couple of years ago, while reading an online magazine or a web page, I found out the initial details of the so-called Exxon Mobil’s Next Generation Control System initiative (let’s call it the NGCS).f This initiative originated in the following …

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Innovations in I/O systems: Rockwell updates the Flex I/O Ex (Snapshots from the near future: Part 3)

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Highlights of the Hannover Messe The bumpy road towards the digital process plant The current trend towards digitization that is taking over the Industrial Automation world has been somewhat slower in the conservative Process Automation market. The digital fieldbus protocols that seemed to be destined to conquer the process plants (Foundation Fieldbus and PROFIBUS PA), …

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Certifícate en PROFINET en Julio

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Recientemente certificada por PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) como Centro de Entrenamiento y de Competencia (PITC/PICC) para las tecnologías de buses de campo PROFIBUS® y PROFINET®, la empresa AUTEX S.A. acerca al mercado latinoamericano un espacio destinado a brindar soporte técnico, capacitación, certificación, asesoramiento y servicios de diagnóstico preventivo y predictivo para redes basadas en …

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New approaches in Profibus DP and PA components (Snapshots from the near future: Part 2)

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An undergoing migration Wandering around at the Hannover Messe, I visited the Phoenix Contact booth. The vast product portfolio of this company is somewhat overwhelming and covers a lot more fields of application than humanly possible. Being my focus on Process Automation, I checked out their new offerings on PROFIBUS networking. The current trend in …

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This isn’t funny anymore….

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Until a few days ago, the majority of the current Trump administration actions and policies affected mostly US citizens. Last week’s Middle East and Europe trip was troubling for other reasons, such as the “tremendous” arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a country really as far away from the democratic ideals of the USA Founding Fathers …

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