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News Release from: AS-Interface UK
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ASi-tech was a day-long event held at Old Trafford focussed on AS-Interface networking technology for actuators and sensors.
Geoff Hodgkinson, AS-Interface Expert Alliance Chairman welcomed delegates to ASi-tech 2007 - the annual conference and exhibition run by the AS-Interface Expert Alliance - with news that more than 11 million devices worldwide now use AS-Interface for connecting control and monitoring equipment in process control and factory automation applications ASi-tech was a day-long event held at Old Trafford focussed on AS-Interface networking technology for actuators and sensors
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Vendors, system integrators and end users from a broad range of industries benefited from a full day of AS-Interface education, information and technical updates.
The event offered delegates the chance to meet the UK's leading experts in implementing and installing AS-Interface networks.
The conference was kicked off by Fabricio Grenados (Bihl + Wiedemann) and Andy Verwer (Manchester Metropolitan University) who presented an introduction to the technology, including a "hands-on the yellow cable" session that enabled newcomers to AS-Interface to learn the basics.
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This was followed by papers concentrating on how to avoid installation pitfalls and the benefits integrating AS-interface with higher level fieldbuses and industrial Ethernet.
Later, Verwer outlined the 2.1 extensions launched several years ago before going on to describe the latest Version 3 changes.
These are quite radical, he said, offering greatly enhanced functionality that in some cases crosses over the boundary with fieldbuses.
Guest speaker Phil Parry from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) gave a detailed talk on the latest standards influencing functional safety systems, before Paul Hingley from Siemens Automation and Drives reported that AS-Interface Safety at Work (ASiSafe) was making serious inroads into the machine safety market with over 10,000 functional safety devices installed in the UK alone.
New products appeared at the event, including n AS-Interface analogue positioner from Schubert and Salzer Control Systems that provides a simple cost-effective alternative to using higher level fieldbuses.
Bihl+Wiedemann had a second-generation AS-Interface Safety Monitor with integrated Master.
Siemens Automation and Drives revealed more details about its Profibus-DP/ASi gateway, which has the capability to transfer safe data from an ASi Safe network into a ProfiSafe system for greater safety zoning.
The exhibition was busy throughout the day with exhibitors including Bihl + Wiedemann, Controlled Lubrication, Fortress Interlocks, Kuhnke, LC Automation, MMU, Schubert and Salzer, Siemens AandD, Sigmapi Systems and Wago.
Slide presentations of the papers given at the event are now online.
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