Competence Centers
Competence Center IDX Industrial Data Xchange
Bruce Bean
1 Weaver Street, Fourways
2055 Johannesburg
South Africa
Phone: +27 11 548 9960
Fax: +27 11 465 8890
Email: bruceb(at)idx.co(dot)za
Web: www.idx.co.za
Competence Areas
- PROFIBUS
- PROFIBUS PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
- PROFINET
- PROFINET PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
Profile
Demo-systems:
All demonstration/training units are designed for mobility. The initial configurations are:
- 9 PROFIBUS DP/PA rigs used for certified installer and engineer training
- 3 PA Rigs used for PA Engineers Course
- Vertical demo rig used for shows and demos
Special experience:
Supplier of PROFIBUS testers and analysers, PROFIBUS interfaces and gateway, OPC servers, clients and customer development solutions.
Training, workshops, seminars:
- OPC and PROFIBUS courses since 2001
- PROFINET courses since 2011
- SAIMC Technical Evening Presentations
- Breakfast events
- Certified courses
- Workshops on PA and PROFINET, PROFIBUS to PROFINET Migration, PROFINET and PROFIBUS fault-finding - methodology and tools, FDT/DTM, Connecting between Fieldbuses and Industrial Ethernet Systems
- Training schedule available here: http://idx.co.za/Default.aspx?tabid=396
Special services:
- Audit of PROFIBUS and PROFINET installations
- Development of PROFIBUS software drivers, including OPC servers
- Development of gateways from legacy systems (eg StarNet HDLC) to PROFIBUS
- Design assistance and testing of PROFIBUS interfaces
- Design and testing of gateways between PROFIBUS and other field-buses and Ethernet protocols
Available experts
-
Kyle Roos (kyler(at)idx.co(dot)za):
- PROFIBUS
- PROFIBUS PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
- PROFINET
- PROFINET PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
-
Alex Thalmann (alext(at)idx.co(dot)za):
- PROFIBUS
- PROFIBUS PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
- PROFINET
- PROFINET PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
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Jehrene Phillip (jehrenep(at)idx.co(dot)za):
- PROFIBUS
- PROFIBUS PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
- PROFINET
- PROFINET PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
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Thavendren Naicker (thavenn(at)idx.co(dot)za):
- PROFIBUS
- PROFIBUS PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe
- PROFINET
- PROFINET PA
- PROFIdrive
- PROFIsafe