The PROFIBUS/PROFINET Association South East Asia successfully conducted its next
Seminar in Singapore. The Event took place at the Petrofac Training Center on Jurong Island, in Singapore. A total of 60 participants joined to hear the latest news and updates on PROFIBUS and PROFINET technologies.
Jurong Island is the home of many companies which are mostly involved in Petrochemical Industries. For this reason, one of the Association main topics was Process Safety using Fieldbus technology, a critical component for all these Applications.
The Seminar was supported by Siemens, Pepperl + Fuchs, Endress+Hauser, Phoenix Contact, Leoni, Vipa and VEGA. These companies provided live demonstrations to showcase innovative Products and Solutions at the Micro fair.
The Seminar was spread in three parts: news and market updates with the latest number on installed nodes with PROFIBUS/PROFINET Technology; a PROFIBUS Block with presentations on Installations and Best Practices as well as Process Safety; and a PROFINET Block with presentations on innovative Industrial Ethernet Solutions as well as the new features available in the Automation Market such as Redundancy, Shared Device and many more.
More locations will follow, such as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 31st 2011, The Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. The President of the PROFIBUS/PROFINET International is also expected on one of these seminars.