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Mar 19 2009

PROFIBUS Book Review

loading… I once blogged with tongue in cheek that not only did we have more installed nodes of PROFIBUS than any of the other fieldbuses, but that we had more books, too.  Now we have one more and it’s a doozey.  The principal author is James Powell.  You may recall James from earlier posts.  [I…

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Mar 17 2009

Excellent Workshop

loading… The day after our PROFINET one-day training class, we had an additional half day for PROFINET developers.  This was also well-attended showing the increasing penetration of PROFINET in the Industrial Ethernet market.  We offered the attending developers the chance to interview six suppliers of development tools to determine who is best positioned to help…

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Mar 16 2009

Inside the Detroit PROFINET Class

loading… Not everyone knows what to expect at one of our one-day training classes.  For you, here’s a look in pictures and video at the Detroit PROFINET class. After you get your badge at the registration desk (on the right), and grab coffee and a Danish or fruit (on the left), you enter the classroom….

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Mar 14 2009

Excellent Crowd

loading… The Detroit PROFINET one-day training class has now concluded.  We concluded with 160 registrations and 135 in attendance.  Sometimes with a class this big it’s hard to handle their questions as the class proceeds, but we managed with this group.  There were a lot of good questions (most of them fielded deftly by Hunter). …

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Feb 24 2009

Ramping Up to over 100

loading… We are frantically getting ready for the 2009 one-day training class season which starts March 11.  The presentations and demonstrations are nearly ready to go.  We have new equipment for the multi-vendor PROFIBUS demo.  And the PROFIBUS course material has been rearranged to reflect real-world plant projects.  These will be seen for the first…

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Jan 25 2009

Web 3.0

loading… Sparked by a blog post and an article in Computer magazine, I had to think about Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.  There’s an easy comparison or two between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 at the Vovici blog.  The Web 3.0 article was in Computer magazine, “Web 3.0 Emerging.”  (The article has to be purchased…

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Jan 5 2009

2009 Free Class Schedule in Color

loading… During the holiday hiatus, we posted our schedule for 2009 one-day training classes. This joined our previously announced Certified Network Engineer class schedule for 2009. It’s going to be a full schedule in 2009 with 12 Certified Network Engineer classes and 25 one-day training classes. Both types of classes have been very well received…

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Dec 23 2008

Merry Christmas and Happy Downtime

loading… Happy Downtime! Downtime meaning personal time off to relax and recuperate as opposed to having your plant shut down unintentionally. I’ll be taking some time to enjoy family and friends, watch little ones open presents, eat too much (especially buckeyes – the candy, not the nut), and make some resolutions for 2009. Now I’m…

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Dec 19 2008

More SUE

loading… Since this blogging software doesn’t do a good job of sending out comments via RSS, I’m promoting a comment from Gary Mintchell and my response to this post: Hi Carl, I’ve talked with their technical people about apples to apples comparisons. Evidently the message has not reached corporate communications people. It’s not so bad…

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Dec 17 2008

The Big Lie: SUE

loading… The Big Lie is a propaganda technique. It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf as a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. [So begins the Wikipedia article Big Lie.] The Big Lie has been widely…

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