by Michael Garnham | Dec 2, 2013 | Anybus Gateway, Anybus ProfiTrace, Case Studies, Products, PROFIBUS
In a call-out to a smelter in South Africa last week, the IDX Product Technical Support Team assisted in the configuration of an Anybus X gateway. This Gateway from the Anybus range converts PROFIBUS to ControlNet. More specifically, it is a PROFIBUS controller and a...
by Michael Garnham | Nov 25, 2013 | Anybus ComBricks, Products, PROFINET, Technologies, Training
The popularity of PROFINET is growing in South Africa and so too is the requirement for training. One interesting topic is the migration from PROFIBUS to PROFINET. It is not realistic to expect a site to one day stop its production (on PROFIBUS), buy new PROFINET...
by Michael Garnham | Nov 5, 2013 | Anybus Serial Server, Ethernet/IP, Products, Serial (RS232/RS422/RS485), Technical Guides, Technologies
What happened to the serial port on my laptop? Indeed it seems that our PCs are upgrading faster than the industrial devices we still use. Being an Industrial IT company, daily we still have to use HyperTerminal and other serial-based software to configure devices and...
by IDX Team | Nov 5, 2013 | Anybus ProfiTrace, Diagnostics, Product News, Products, PROFIBUS, Solutions
We at IDX run the only PROFIBUS competence and training centre in Africa and also develop solutions that get legacy and other non-PROFIBUS systems to talk PROFIBUS. ProfiTrace is our go-to tool before we do any testing. It guarantees that our PROFIBUS network is up...
by IDX Team | Oct 25, 2013 | Anybus ComBricks, IDX News, Products, PROFIBUS
IDX has just returned from Botswana having done an installation of three shiny new COMbricks to monitor PROFIBUS network health remotely and permanently. This will be a pilot for the customer and make it the second installation in Botswana. The major mining companies...
