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  So an engineer walks into a theme park… So an engineer walks into a theme park and while the kids are waiting in line for the kids’ coaster he carefully analyzes the mechanical construction details and postulates how the controls work.  Mechanically, it’s round tubular steel tracks, supported... 06-30-2008, 3:02 PM by Carl to PTO PROFIblog

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  Automation Resources Continuing to answer questions from an Anaheim training class attendee:  There are lots of great Internet resources; finding them is the challenge.  Of course I’m a little biased towards our site, www.us.profibus.com and the PROFIblog. ... 06-20-2008, 10:42 AM by Carl to PTO PROFIblog

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  “And the winner is…” An attendee from our Anaheim PROFINET one-day training event made a comment to my blogged report which I’m promoting to this post to answer:   “As a former automation engineering in the process industries, and a DeltaV user, I have been pre-programmed... 06-19-2008, 4:40 PM by Carl to PTO PROFIblog

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  Offhand Noise Comment Funny coincidence: yesterday I mentioned using fiber optics for noise immunity (and thinking I probably should have expanded that thought) and today’s email brings reference to an article at Control Design, “More Than a Backbone.”  The article meets... 06-17-2008, 11:09 AM by Carl to PTO PROFIblog

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  Anaheim PROFINET Training Report It was old-home week for me last week in Anaheim.  I lived in Orange County from 1994 until 2000 while working at Wonderware.  So after catching up with some other Wonderware alumni on Tuesday, it was off to the training class on Wednesday.... 06-16-2008, 2:58 PM by Carl to PTO PROFIblog