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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Increased Seminar activity in Vietnam
Hello PAC Fans,
It is my pleasure again to report on some of the seminar and training activities in Asia. This week's blog is on the seminars and training events our Distributor
Daviteq from Vietnam has wrapped up.
Daviteq comes with years of Industrial Automation experience and promotes the benefits of using
Opto 22 PACs from an experienced point of view. Earlier this month Mr. Loc of
Daviteq organized and gave various training sessions for his Opto 22 customers.
His customers came from various industries including, sugar, cement and water. All process control customers. The customers came focused and ready to learn more about the latest in PAC Technology. They were treated to demonstrations using the
SNAP-PACLC and the
PAC Project Basic which you can download from our website.
Vietnam is considered by many modern economists as the second boom country for Asia behind China by percentage. Check out the latest
14-page report on Vietnam to learn about its booming economy.
For more information on our PAC equipment and Case Studies please visit our
learn section . Great job Daviteq on your recent wins in Vietnam and increased seminar activity in the area.
Rene
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Customers Travel From All Over For April Training
Our SNAP PAC Training class is as popular as ever. The class is a great opportunity for anybody to take because it is a free class jammed PAC'd with information about the SNAP PAC System, and it is a great opportunity to meet the folks here at Opto 22 and other Opto 22 users that attend the class. For these and other reasons, the training classes held in April were, once again, full of interesting people with great applications.
The first class that we hosted here in April was for some of our Spanish-speaking customers. Our Opto Distributor in Mexico, IC22 , brought this class together. The class had quite a mixture of industries represented, from mining to fruit refrigeration.
The guys included Antonio O. from Leche Lala , Samuel V. from Yeico, Adrian H. from ElinHuerta, Gilberto S. from Integracion de Procesos, Alberto G. and Federico O. from Panquime, and Alejandro M., Javier V., and Guillermo R. from SADM . It was great talking to these guys and hearing about their Opto 22 applications.
The second class we hosted this April was held April 21st through the 24th. The class was again full of nine customers with different control and automation backgrounds. We had folks with years of experience with all the big brands and then folks that were new to the whole automation field. No fears! We strive to make sure that the class offers something for all attendees.
In attendance this week were Joe V. and Steve P. from Dometic USA , David S. from Helena Industries , Michael H. from Lakeside Energy , John H. from SCS Energy , Mike C. from US Army Corp , Randy S. from USBR - Grand Coulee Power Office , and Walter G. from Verizon . The award for longest distance traveled went to class attendee Andrew B. from Benthic Geotech in Sydney, Australia.
We really enjoy the opportunity to host training classes at our headquarters but understand that sometimes it is easier for customers to make it to an alternate training location. For those of you that fall into this category, we have certified trainers that will host training classes in other facilities. For example, Martindale Associates , an Opto Distributor, hosted a training class the last week of April.
If you would like more information about training or would like to sign up for a class, click here . If you have any questions, email me .
Have a great day!
-Kelly
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Opto's Video Crew Travels to the East Coast
The video crew has been busy creating videos to bring to you the story of companies that use our equipment in creative and productive ways. Our latest venture took us to locations on the East Coast: Garden City, Long Island, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Our first stop was at the Verizon central office in Garden City. This office handles important telephone switching operations for a large number of customers on Long Island. Verizon uses Opto 22 equipment to make sure they always have power to the switches. This guarantees that, even in a state of emergency, calls can be completed. The Verizon guys invited us out to their plant to show us how they do this and to tell us how the Opto 22 system has made their system more reliable.
This day was a great experience and we got to see
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Ni Hao PAC Fans from Nanjing, China
Hello PAC Fans,
Recently
APT continued their PAC Seminar tour in Nanjing China. Nanjing is just a 2hour bullet train east from Shanghai and the Pacific Ocean. Nanjing has 15 million people but only 50 were able to make our SNAP-PAC Seminar this time.
The type of customers that attended range from Electrical Substations, Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants, Petroleum, and agriculture. We showed how the
SNAP PAC Simulator can be used to simulate your control program on any Windows 2000, Windows XP machine.
The main topics of interest was the ease of use of PAC Control and the ease of how one could archive data to an SQL, Access or mySQL database using
OptoDataLink . Did you know you can view a screencast that shows you the basics of OptoDataLink? Well you do know so
take a look .
Enjoy the slide show and please contact us if you have any questions on these products.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Ni Hao PAC Fans from Shanghai, China
APT seminars continue with a vengeance in Shanghai, China. Shanghai is Opto 22's 2nd largest market in mainland China only behind where APT headquarters is in Beijing. In Shanghai we were lucky enough to have an Opto 22 user speak about his Ph.D. work who did his research in both the mainland and Canada. SNAP-PAC-R1 brain which is also my personal favorite when it comes to PAC Controllers.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
G'Day PAC Fans from Melbourne, Australia
G'Day PAC Fans from Melbourne, Australia,click here to view all the Opto 22 videos for yourself.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
G'Day PAC Fans from Sydney, Australia (Olympic Park)
Hello there PAC Fans,Systems 22 PAC Seminar for Sydney Australia. We met some new friends and reconnected with old friends who are familiar with Opto 22 systems. All were brought up to speed on the lastest technologies like Zigbee, SNMP V3, Database Exchange and OEE . We showed several of the PAC Videos including the Opto 22 Factory , Verizon, Ballarat , and Paywerks .roadmap , PAC System Components and potential applications.
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G'Day PAC Fans! Brisbane, Australia
G'Day PAC Fans,
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Contenidos de Multimedia de Opto 22 Ahora en Español
a la sección "Learn" en nuestra página web . Y, también estamos trabajando con nuestros socios en medios de comunicación para hacer esta información mas disponible a todos en la industria de automatización y control. Visite la sección Control en Español en la página web en ControlGlobal.com de Putman para ver algunos de nuestros casos en español.contacte el departamento de mercadotecnia de Opto 22. .Opto 22 Multimedia Content Now en Español "Learn" section of our website . Plus, we're also working with our media partners to make this information more widely available to all those in the industrial automation and control industry. Check out the Control en Español section of Putman's ControlGlobal.com website to see some of our Spanish case studies.Opto 22 Marketing department .Posted by dcrump at 12:05 PM
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Friday, February 15, 2008
More Information About the Case Study Program
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
OptoGreen Update - Second Grant Awarded!
Michael Otis is the recipient of the second OptoGreen Grant. As you may know, these grants are part of the Opto 22 initiative focused on environmental responsibility by providing solutions for automation, control, and data acquisition of renewable energy, energy consumption optimization, and sustainability. Professor Otis and several of his students are working with The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC) on "The Greening of New York State Farms" . They plan on using the donated SNAP PAC System hardware & software for two pilot programs: Wright’s Apple Farm in Gardiner, NY and Davenport’s Farm in Stone Ridge, NY. Part of the grant includes a SNAP PAC Learning Center for future projects - a dairy farm and a vineyard are already in the works. These pilot programs will pave the way for future endeavors with all types of agri-businesses throughout New York State.Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) announced yesterday that Intel Corp. joined Green-e Marketplace with the largest single purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) in history, representing 1.3 Million MWh of the electricity used to power its facilities throughout the U.S.Posted by asinha at 4:14 PM
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Opto 22 Video Team Travels to Lumenyte
Lumenyte , a fiber optic lighting manufacturer in Foothill Ranch, CA, to shoot a video case study of their process control application.
I was very excited when we arrived and they led us into a room that had examples of some of the different applications that use their products on display. When I think of Fiber Optic Lighting, I think of amusement parks but their display showed exactly how diverse fiber optic lighting really is. They had normal lighting applications, homeland security applications, emergency evacuation applications, and transportation applications on display. They were nice enough to let us do the first section of filming in this room.
The next place we set up our cameras was the manufacturing area. They have a large casting chamber that produces long strands of fiber optics. Because of the refrigeration process, the pipes get frosted over. That is something I don't see everyday.
The video case study is available here . If you would like more information or would like to participate in the case study program, contact me .
Have a great day!
-Kelly
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
China 2008! The Year of the Industrial Automation PAC Seminar! (and Beijing Olympics)
Nihao PAC Fans,
It is once again my honor and pleasure to have been a part
of the latest PAC Seminar to be held in China APT will be offering FREE Seminars every month this year in
different cities in China Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Chengdu Free copy of PAC Project Basic .
We started at the nations capitol Beijing contact
me or APT to schedule your attendance at one of our China
We had 71 attendees and including us staff had over 80
people in attendance at the first seminar. Many have attended our seminar
last year which was also blogged. Also in attendance were systems
integrators from the Wind Power field, Petrochemical, Petroleum, Water and
Wastewater and Energy Management industries. It was quite a crowd.
The next day January 19th APT scheduled a full day training
course for those who wanted to spend their Saturday learning about PAC Project.
We had 10 PCs, 10 SNAP-PACLC s and 20 chairs . Well, 35 people showed
up so we all quickly became close friends.
Zheng Hui of Beijing
Next China Beijing
Rene
Add me as your qq friend QQ: 810053341
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Get to Know Opto - John Hyatt & Robert Leonard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgA3T1wtBIg .Star Wars and Indiana Jones . He explained, “This was the big leagues, we were surrounded by so many famous stunt men.” When the show began touring in Japan, one of the cast members was injured and they called Robert to take his place. It wasn’t until he got there that he realized he would be playing one of the main roles: Darth Vader! The show ran for many months in Japan and was so large they needed almost 60 trailers to move it.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Opto 22 Video Team Travels to Paywerks, Inc.
Here at Opto 22, we judge the success of our products by the success our customers have using them. We thought it would be a great idea to share some success stories with you by creating another tier to our case study program, video case studies. It is also a great opportunity for me to learn more about what our products do once they have left our factory.
Paywerks, Inc. is located. I don’t want to give too much of the video away, but Paywerks, Inc. builds automatic toll payment machines that are used in many cities across the nation.
Upon arrival, we did a quick survey of the area and then set up our equipment for the interview section. Our cameraman is new video engineer Steven Peng, and as you can see from the photos, he will do anything to get the shot including getting atmosphere shots by filming from a nearby bridge.
Our Paywerks escorts were great! They took us out to see some of their equipment at work. You can see from the pictures that they even gave us stylish vests that they said were for safety reasons (but, I am pretty sure they were fashion statements). Don't Alexi and Steven look great?
To view the final Paywerks, Inc. video case study, click here . If you are interested in participating in or would like more information about Opto 22’s case study program (any tier from application brief to video case study) or any comments about this video email me .
Have a great day!
-Kelly
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
What I did on my Hawaiian Vacation
http://www.opto22.com/rss/optoproducts/2006/08/new_snap_high_d.aspx http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=45177 http://www.opto22.com/site/co_sustainability.aspx Posted by mstjohn at 7:47 AM
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Opto 22 Advertising in Italy
Atesys , our distribution partner in Italy Ad's in Italian automation magazines, "Automazione Oggi" and "Automazione e Strumentazione" . The first ad is the one featuring Tommy Leung, one of our engineers, in the "THE SNAP-PAC IS SIMPLE" Ad.
The second publication is our very recent "Jam PAC'ed" Ad, featuring the technical features of the SNAP-PAC System.
"We are planning to do the advertisements on a regular basis, and we have received already some good feadback from the market", says Davide Rodari, Managing Director of Atesys.
For more information on SNAP-PAC Systems in Italy contact Atesys directly. Davide will be happy to show you their skills in providing you Opto 22 products, Training or a complete solution. Contact is:
Atesys S.r.l. info@atesys.org
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Vietnam hosts an impressive SNAP-PAC Training Seminar.
Chao PAC Fans,
Last week the SNAP-PAC spent an
outstanding week in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam with our newest
distributor Daviteq. Please visit their website www.daviteq.com .
The website is backed up by the talented team that the
General Director put together Mr. Nguyen Vinh Loc. Email me for details.
The seminar took place on December 12th
at the Riverside Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and overlooking the Saigon
River. There were 60 attendees and we took some great video of the
event. We had people from various industries including but not
limited to:
Here is a video and slideshow the event.
Video:
Thank You, -Rene
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Twas the night before deadline
'Twas the night before deadline, and all through the place Posted by mstjohn at 9:59 AM
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Behind Door Number 2...A New Studio!
Lucky us! As you may have noticed, the marketing and training team have been working hard lately to produce videos to get information out to you all. Until now, we have been creating these videos in a small studio on the second floor of our headquarters building. Well, the work has not gone unnoticed and we've been rewarded with a brand new studio!
Benson went in search of a room that had all the qualities needed to produce the perfect studio. He found it in a room on the first floor that was being used as an engineering soldering station and IT overflow. The room was stripped, painted, and then it was time for all of the new equipment to go in.
The new studio is much larger and gives us some flexibility in layout and design that we did not have in the upstairs studio. Because of this flexibility, we will be able to do things that we have always wanted to do, like dual cameras and 360-degree boom lighting. To be able to do such things, we needed some additional equipment, more space, and some good engineering.
Every detail of this studio has been planned to provide the best atmosphere for filming. Benson, Stephen, and David completed extensive research to find the best audio, video, and lighting equipment. Vic, Chris, and Dave did all the construction like laying new carpet, building a stage, running electrical and networking, and painting. And I was even able to do a wall mounted OptoTerminal G70 workspace to control the lights and HVAC in the room. (Okay, the picture below isn't the real one. But as soon as they cut the hole, a real one will be in there!)
Everybody came together to create the new studio, including one of our tech writers, Jean, who hemmed the back drop and our boss, Mark, bringing in a steamer to de-wrinkle the back drop. Thanks to everybody who worked so hard to get the studio built quickly (so far, only two weeks)!
And to all of you, keep watching the Learn section of the website (also recently updated) to see this studio as the star of many new Opto 22 videos.
Have a great day!
-Kelly
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Have a minute? Spend it learning something with Opto 22!
A minute is just long enough to learn something new and now Opto 22 makes it easy with OptoMinute. An OptoMinute is a video that will introduce and discuss a certain product or concept in one minute or less. We have just completed our first one about SNAP PAC R Series Controllers. When you have a minute, check it out and let me know what you think .
Our goal is to make OptoMinute a series and we are working very hard to get more OptoMinutes completed and available on our website. So, keep checking back to make sure that you view all the available OptoMinutes. Have you already watched them all and are not seeing the topic you want covered? Let me know .
Have a great day.
-Kelly D.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
ER, House M.D. and Grey's Anatomy could learn from Ballarat
Hello PAC Fans,SNAP PAC had the pleasure of spending time touring Ballarat Health Services in South Eastern Australia. Ballarat is in Victoria shown on the left in blue.case study for more details.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
OptoGreen Update
Vic Blakemore and others in manufacturing here at Opto 22 are always looking for ways to continue “greening” our facility and operations. Recently Vic replaced the 30 or so paper towel dispensers located throughout the building that used “multifold” paper towels with “no-touch” dispensers. This seemingly minor change is going to result in about a two and one-half times reduction in the amount of paper towel usage! Vic and his team are always thinking Green…
Two other recent changes in our manufacturing process also are worth noting: We have changed our packing material from starch recyclable “peanuts” to air pillow bags, which are reusable and recyclable. Finally, in our soldering processes, the flux containing VOC (volatile organic compounds) has been replaced with a water-based flux, thus having a positive impact on emissions to the environment…in addition to a reduction in the amount of flux spray used.
All good news for the environment…Go OptoGreen!
- Arun
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Deck The Halls with Training
No holiday season is complete without a training class at Opto headquarters. And why not come to Temecula in December? No snow here. In fact, the weather peaked at a nice 80 deg. F (26 deg. C) the week of December 3rd.
Its a good thing that the weather was nice. The December training class had attendees from all over (including some places that were receiving snow December 3rd). Attendees in this class were Jorrey L. from Ashworth , Alan G. and Bruce C. from Luminescent Systems Inc. , Brian H. and Louis P. from Messier-Bugatti USA , Kim J. and Kathy O. from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , Firas B. from SAS Group , and Gilberto O. from Sundance Spas .
This was a talkative bunch so I got the chance to learn about many of their applications. Ashworth uses Opto to control their stock carrousel for their embroidery department. Luminescent Systems Inc. uses Opto to monitor their autoclaves.
I want to mention Firas from SAS Group again. SAS Group will be a new OptoPartner. Firas will be working hard to get Opto working hard in 13 different countries.
If you would like more information about training, click here or email me .
Have a great day!
-Kelly
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving PAC-Style In Guangzhou, China
Ni hao PAC Fans,OptoTech ) Opto 22's Distributor for the mainland organized the event.PACProject . The conference also went over a few recent case studies from Sinopec , ECOPetrol , Daqing Gas, Konica , Doosan , Posco and Burket . As always if you would like the presentations for this seminar please email me and put 'Sinopec Seminar' as the subject heading.OptoDataLink , Remote OPC Scanners and High Speed Control!
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
And the Winners are in!
previous blog post on our annual Turkey Trot Golf Tournament, I am pleased to present this year’s winners: Coming in First place with a score of 96 was the Chris Ibbeson and Doug Scarr team, pocketing a cool $200 in winnings. Second place honors go to the Sal Rosales and Viengvilay Viphakone pair with a score of 98 along with $150 in prize money.
The Benson Hougland and Ron Koss twosome tied the Jean Femia and Tom Parnakian team for third place finish at 100. In the nail-biting sudden-death putt-off, Benson and Ron prevailed, officially winning third place in the tournament, and banking the $100 winnings.
In addition, a notable mention goes to our Opto 22 founder, Bob Engman, dropping an extraordinary four holes-in-one on the final day of regulation play. Pretty amazing play, Bob!
Thanks for reading about this year’s Turkey Trot and thanks for getting to know Opto!
Kristie Allison
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Thanks to Training
With the Thanksgiving holiday and two training classes, November was, no surprise, a busy month for the training group.
The first training class in November was held November 5th thru November 8th . The class roster included Scott B. from Alaska Native Medical Center , Raul G. from Energar , Darryl L. from Lennox Industries , Tony B. and Eric C. from Messier-Bugatti USA, Chris F. and Thad I. from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , Nathan R. from Entegris Corporation , and Morris S. from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers .
Thanks to all these guys for coming out especially Raul and Scott who had to travel the farthest. It was great to meet Scott because Opto 22’s relationship with Alaska Native Medical Center has been great and long. We have even featured them in a case study. If you would like to read more about their application of monitoring refrigerators temperatures, click here .
The second training class was held November 12th thru November 15th . This class included Arturo G., Luis G., Dole . Also, in attendance, there was Richard P. from First Energy Corp ., Michael S. from FluidIQs , Kevin B. from Metalast , and Candance R. and Michael G. from NCUT in Canada.
If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed that we have had quite a few people from Dole out to training lately. One gentleman explained the reason why as "We have Opto 22 all over our plant but never have a problem with it so that is why we don't know anything about it." They are learning now so they can replace other control applications around their plant with Opto 22.
If you are interested in getting more information about attending a free training class, click here or if you have questions email us .
Have a great day!
-Kelly D.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Opto 22's Annual Turkey Trot
Well, it’s that time of year again: leaves changing colors, a slight chill in the air, lots of pumpkin pie, and of course Opto 22’s annual Turkey Trot. However, this year it’s 80 deg. F (26 deg. C) in sunny Temecula and not a hint of winter on the horizon.
The Opto 22 Turkey Trot became a tradition in 2000 when Opto 22’s founder decided to put a nine-hole putting green on the property. Originally, the Trot was played individually and the winner would receive a putter. However, starting in 2004 it became a partner game with four different rounds including best ball, best score, alternating hits, and both player’s total hits. At the end of each round the team that has the lowest score wins a pie and anyone with a hole-in-one gets a chance at winning a turkey. In addition, at the end of all four games, the team with the lowest total score, first through third place, receives a cash prize.
And for those of you in the U.S., happy soon-to-be Turkey Day!
Thanks for getting to know Opto!
Kristie Allison
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some cool stuff. Steven Peng, our video engineer, wanted to capture the system on film and did just about everything to get the best shot including standing on the table. Everybody at Opto was excited about the trip and two of the big bosses (Bob and Benson) made time to attend the trip.