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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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
While preparing a training for a customer, I made a thorough research of the current status of Fieldbus/Profibus device coupler’s technology and availability and spent some time working out a clear way to present the Ex ic fieldbus concept which is not as conceptually clear as the older Ex i a/b concepts. Nowadays everybody involved […]
When we used to buy something in the old days we took for granted the functions and characteristics that this thing had. If I bought a TV, it was supposed to be a device that, when connected to the corresponding power supply and with the proper antenna or later cable connection, allowed me to watch […]