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Introducing our Partnership with LineView Solutions
We are excited to announce our partnership with LineView Solutions, a leading UK-based company specialising in smart...
Delighted Customer Shares Experience
We recently assisted a client in rectifying damage to the Anybus ABC4090 Communicator caused by incorrect power usage...
Price Decrease on PROFIBUS Connectors
PROFIBUS connectors play a crucial role in industrial automation and data exchange systems by facilitating smooth...
Why is industrial training important?
Training is essential for maintaining critical infrastructure to ensure that equipment operates at peak performance,...
Boost network performance with the Anybus ProfiHub (B2 and B5)
Discover the full potential of your industrial plant by harnessing the power of network segmentation, a cutting-edge...
Anybus EtherMIRROR: Your plug and play diagnostic solution
Developed to gain on-demand, passive diagnostic information from multiple networks, the innovative EtherMIRROR is a...
8 Benefits of implementing Anybus ComBricks into your PROFIBUS network
Anybus ComBricks is a must-have tool for anyone who wants to ensure the efficacy of their industrial network. It is a...
Benefits of segmentation using a ProfiHub B5+R in a Motor Control Center (MCC)
Unplanned downtime and network failures are some of the major triggers of lost productivity, causing delays, unhappy...
A holistic approach to minimising Industrial ICT network-related downtime
Do you know how much an hour of downtime costs your business? Unplanned downtime is one of the challenges faced by...
Emerging ICT benefits for smart, safe, and sustainable industrial systems
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) encompasses the various technologies that are used to deploy wireless...
The impetus of COVID-19 – accelerating adoption of IIOT and related technologies
A new COVID-19 normality has been forced upon us and highlighted how technology can compensate for lack of mobility,...
What is serial communication?
To understand communication protocols we first need to understand digital systems. A digital system communicates a...
ProfiHubs with diagnostic capabilities
Is network downtime getting you down? Introducing PROCENTEC’s range of ProfiHubs, now with new diagnostic...
Anybus gateway’s creating secure paths for IIOT solutions
Anybus has launched a new family of gateways built to boost your Industrial IoT development demands. These devices are...
PROFIBUS wiring error / B-line short
IDX attended a PROFIBUS call out for a gold mine situated in Welkom. The client reported issues such as “loss of...
How to achieve high PROFIBUS network availability
The difference between three 9's (9.99%) and four 9's (99.99%) availability on your PROFIBUS communications network...
Common pitfalls when installing a Modbus RS485 network on site
Last week IDX was called to the site at a large commercial residence building in Pretoria, South Africa. Where our...
IDX builds a Raspberry Pi solution for The Arnold Classic in 2018
The Arnold Classic 2018: A place for those with a passion for sport, fitness, and an overall desire to challenge...
Your path to becoming a PROFIBUS expert in South Africa
The PROFIBUS Competence and Training Centre of Southern Africa (PCC) has been providing internationally certified...
Remote monitoring of HVAC systems
What are HVAC Systems? Automated systems that incorporate Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) apparatus...
PROFINET Installation Tips & Tricks On Guidelines
Are your PROFINET assets installed within specification? How do you ensure high network availability? PROFINET is a...
PROFIBUS multi-colour connectors
Finally, an out-of-the-box cable solution for the ever-evolving PROFIBUS network. Device connections are sometimes...
Home automation: How to get a luxury to pay for itself?
What is Building Automation? Let’s define building automation: Automation refers to the capability to program and...
Netbiter remote access to ABB Analyser
When delegates visit the IDX Academy in South Africa for training, they are always encouraged to bring their piece of...
Using ComBricks to permanently monitor your plant
Sometimes the intermittent and unexplained failures of a PROFIBUS network can only be explained as one thing: "My...
Choosing the right PROFIBUS cable
When it comes to selecting the optimal Profibus cable, several key considerations can significantly impact the...
The essential PROFIBUS survival kit
Embarking on the journey of Profibus implementation demands meticulous preparation, where having the right tools at...
Anybus IPconfig tool can not find my Anybus X-Gateway’s IP address
Hopefully, this post will help you if you are having trouble finding the IP address of your Anybus X gateway. The...
Certified PROFINET Training in South Africa and migrating from PROFIBUS to PROFINET
The popularity of PROFINET is growing in South Africa and so too is the requirement for training. One interesting...
PROFIBUS testers and troubleshooting kits
We at IDX run the only PROFIBUS competence and training centre in Africa and also develop solutions that get legacy...
Outsourcing the migration of plant history
When an organisation decides to introduce a different Plant Data Historian the requirement to retain visibility and...
Migrating historical data between historians
Organisations that wish to change the data Historians use are often faced with the challenge of what to do with the...
IDX 8 Tag Manager – Managing the unmanagable?
Tag management of real-time data systems can prove challenging. As an industrial IT company, we frequently come across...
HDLC to PROFIBUS Gateway
The integration of legacy systems and modern technology is sometimes a challenge in the creation and maintenance of...
Use your old GEM80-400 PLC to control PROFIBUS devices
We have recently designed a gateway for one of our clients that allows them to use their old GEM80-400 PLC to control...
A need for tag synchronisation and management
Modern plant systems consist of various real-time data systems, often from different vendors and the data contained in...
ComBricks: A permanent monitoring solution
COMbricks™ - The first PROFIBUS and PROFINET-based automation system that unites network components, permanent...
My Profibus network doesn’t work
We are constantly faced with comments about Profibus network problems where the consensus is pure frustration. Helping...
Anybus Communicator
The ABC (Anybus Communicator) is a device that translates from serial communication to different fieldbus languages....
Tips on solving your PROFIBUS issues
For most of us, there was a stage in our lives, while growing up, that we went through, that involved us being the...
Exciting development: Siemens PCS7 direct PLC tag data retrieval
IDXOnline has an exciting solution in development to solve a long-standing challenge which involves collecting plant...
C# COM issue: “The application has called an interface that was marshalled for a different thread”
Hello people. I bled a little on something, so I thought I might share and save you some pain: When calling code in a...
Scheduling the printing of an Excel file which has an add-in from the command line using visual basic scripting (vbs) via wscript
On a recent project, I was required to print out an Excel-based report which made extensive use of OSIsoft PI...
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