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The new clúster business integrates in PI International, the international network of platforms of technological support

It is born the Spanish Association Profibus/Profinet

Editorial Interempresas28/10/2011

28 October 2011

The industrial companies Siemens, ABB, Logitek, Phoenix Contact, Harting Iberia, SMC, Endress Hauser and Pepperl Fuchs have promoted the creation of the Spanish Association of Profibus & Profinet/IO Link, and with this, explain from the new entity, “Spain jumps to the first division of the industrial automation to support the standard world-wide leader of the market”.

The past 27 October presented officially the Spanish Association of Profibus & Profinet/IO Link in the Auditorium of the University School Salesiana of Sarrià of Barcelona (EUSS).

The inaugural day, to which assisted more than a hundred of representatives of the main technological companies of the country, had a previous round table to the inauguration under the title 'The technology Profibus/Profinet from the point of view of the final user' to charge of Manel Domínguez, responsible of Automation and Engineer of Projects of DEW of Danone; Daniel Orea, in representation of Seat; and Xavier Ponsarnau, of the department of Automation Audi Tooling Barcelona.

The official presentation had the intervention of Susana Tintoré, director of Invest Catalonia of the Government of Catalonia, that stood out the automation like an indispensable element for the technological growth of the country and the relations with foreign companies. “The creation of this association is very interesting, since they do not leave to be companies competitors that collaborate to be better”.

Of left to right, Carles Blond, director of the EUSS; Michael Bryant, president of PI USES; Ignacio Álvarez, president of the Spanish Association Profibus/Profinet, and Susana Tintoré, director of Invest Catalonia of the Government of Catalonia.

The creation of the association of national character supposes a big step for the Spanish market of the automation

Big forecast of growth

Michael Bryant, vice-president of Profibus lnternacional and president of Profibus USES was another of the invited of honour/honor that reviewed some of the profits that the adoption of this standard has supposed in the countries in which it is present.

The creation of the association of national character, chaired by Ignacio Álvarez, supposes a big step for the Spanish market of the automation, since it integrates like this in the international network of platforms of technological support leader in the industry. In fact, Spain is of the few countries industrialised/industrialized that they did not explain still with an association devoted to promote this standard. It treats of a technology of common use in sectors as, for example, the automotion, thanks to his advantages of productivity, maintenance and saving. It is, in fact, the standard that registers a greater forecast of growth, of 8,7%, between 2008 and 2013.

Present all over the world

PI International is the organisation/organization of support, transmission and development of the standard Profibus/Profinet all over the world. It operates from Karlsruhe (Germany) and coordinates the activities of a network of 27 associations between the main European countries, and the first industrial potentials to world-wide level, to which joins , at last, Spain.