I am in Brazil for two weeks working with LEAD http://www.coep.ufrj.br/gscar/lead/ to assist them in becoming a Foundation Fieldbus Certified Training Center.

Though some of my friends have been telling me for years, Denise was able to confirm this week that I am now certified, Certified Foundation Fieldbus training instructor that is – and pending some changes to the laboratory exercises – tomorrow’s activity on my part to perform the activity and create some screen captures at least, the curriculum will be ready as well. The facility also made the grade so all three facets of the audit are almost complete.

Just completed the first day of the FF Certified Training Center audit here at SAIT with Denise Lloyd from the Fieldbus Foundation and we are almost complete part 1 of 3 in the process. Day 1 was spent reviewing the course curriculum content against the criteria as defined in the Fieldbus specification FF-859 defining the topics that need to be covered in the course with the required depth of knowledge in each subject area.

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Everyone knows that no building is stronger than its foundation or a company better than its corporate principles so it should be no surprise that a project will be no more successful than the planning that takes place at the start of the project. This is certainly true for any industrial installation and in particular an industrial communications project.

Walt Boyes interviewed Bjorn Gudehus of Bell Canada, who is both a security analyst and an automation professional, and who has a distinctive voice and opinion on this important question.