IDX Breakfast 2011

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IDX hosted a breakfast at Blandford Manor, Johannesburg, on Wednesday 7th September. The presenter was Dennis Van Booma, General Manager of PROCENTEC and Chairman Working Group “Training” at PROFIBUS International. The company PROCENTEC, based in The Netherlands, concentrates all products and services on the PROFIBUS and PROFINET technology. The first presentation gave insight into COMbricks from PROCENTEC, the first PROFIBUS and PROFINET based automation system that unites network components, permanent monitoring with ProfiTrace and remote I/O. The second presentation was about PROFINET. IDX is a PROFIBUS Competence Centre in South Africa and is a gold distributor for PROCENTEC.

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