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In February 2002, Beckhoff organized a series of seminars across the USA on the
topic of fieldbus applications. In a two-week tour through five states in Canada
and the USA, customers at various industrial centers were shown the latest developments
and substantial technology for the most important industrial networks,
Profibus and DeviceNet. Beckhoff experts also reported on the current
state of development of Ethernet as an industrial I/O network and of SERCOS as
a drives bus. Live demonstrations of configuration, operation and fault-finding in
all the networks on control systems from various manufacturers rounded off the
theoretical part with some hands-on experience. Participants took a programmable
Ethernet Bus Terminal controller with a few I/O terminals away with them as
a demonstration kit. Beckhoff received special compliments: The opportunity to
try out practical applications and theoretical possibilities convinced the participants
of the quality and completeness of the seminar covering these complex
technologies.
Each seminar in Minneapolis MN, Toronto CA, Charlotte NC, Austin TX, and Los
Angeles CA brought together up to 30 interested participants who were either
about to introduce this technology or who wanted to become informed about the
latest trends. The lectures were presented by engineers from Beckhoff USA and
Europe; they included, among others, Martin Rostan, Chairman of the CANopen
interest group CiA (CAN in Automation) and Vice-President of the IAONA Technical
Steering Committee. Experiences and trends in more recent developments in
the Ethernet field could therefore be presented, while information direct from the
CAN sector was discussed. Altogether a successful start to 2002!
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