TYCO Flow Control Pacific has been accredited by Profibus International (PI) as the first Profibus International Competence Centre (PICC) in Australia.
The Competence Centre is designed to support companies in new product development, provide technical support for Profibus manufacturers and users, allow demonstrations of interoperability of products and provide a comprehensive range of certified training programmes.
The company will commence its training programme on 13 November 2008 with an internationally accredited one-day Profibus Installer course in Sydney.
The course will be suitable for engineers and technicians and will cover the layout, installation and testing of Profibus DP and PA networks.
A three-and-a-half-day certified Profibus Engineers course covering network design, commissioning and live fault finding has also been scheduled for early 2009.
The manufacturer says the centre will play a major role in meeting the demand for ‘high-tech’ automation in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Tyco Flow Control, the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial valving and related controls, says the accreditation process had very stringent criteria to meet which required a lot of hard work.
Andy Verwer, a Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University’s (MMU) Department of Engineering and Technology, represent PI during the accreditation process. He is also responsible for that university’s Competence Centre.
According to the company, the Profibus technology market is now worth $60b and dominates all sectors of industrial automation. Furthermore, there are more Profibus devices installed in the field than all other types of Fieldbus systems combined.
Experts are predicted the number of installed nodes worldwide to exceed 30 million by 2009.
According to the developer, the system can save both time and money in the engineering and design phases of both greenfield developments and plant refurbishments.
The company says Profibus improves the quality and increases the amount of data available to plant operators. This leads to better plant utilisation, higher throughputs and more predictable quality. It can also allow asset management strategies, such as predictive maintenance, to be employed.
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