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Dear Readers, Welcome to the October edition of Afcon Newsletter. In this issue, we are happy to announce the launch of a new online support service as part of our effort to improve the quality of services we provide to you. You will also read about P-CIM's role in the prestigious multifunction shopping center project in Pilsen in the Czech Republic and finally, we are looking forward to meeting you next month at the SPS/IPC/Drives show in Nuremberg.

Project News - Czech Republic Afcon Power and Automation s.r.o., Afcon Industries Ltd. fully owned affiliate company in the Czech Republic, is taking part in a multifunction shopping center project in Pilsen. The Plzen Plaza will house high profile retail tenants as well as a multiplex Cinema City and relaxation zones. Afcon Power and Automation won the tender for the Cinema City multiplex, estimated at roughly 1 million Euros. The PCIM SCADA software system will be installed in the Cinema City project to monitor over and control every system in the building. For more details, click here

New Online Support Services on our website Afcon is happy to announce the launch of two new online support services that improve the quality of service and support for both distributors and customers. Integrated into Afcon website, the new chat room allows distributors and customers to have an online chat with Afcon technical support members and Afcon marketing representatives. Furthermore, a new set of glossary terms can also be found on the website to help users become more familiar with Afcon specific and industry terms. For more details, click here

Upcoming Event -SPS/IPC/Drives 2007 Exhibition Meet Us at SPS/IPC/Drives show, Nuremberg – Germany at Hall 6, Stand No. 6-224 on 27 – 29 November, 2007. Afcon software and Electronics Ltd. will present its new release of P-CIM SCADA/HMI, P-CIM 7.70 with its new reporting solution – P-CIM Supreme Report. Furthermore, Afcon will announce a new collaboration with IOSight - Plant Floor Intelligent Software Solution providers For more information contact [email protected]

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Questions and Answers In this section we offer tips and tricks guarantied to make your daily work with PCIM even simpler. In this month's issue, you can find out how to create a dynamic alarm text that contains values derived from other addresses and learn about P-CIM 7.70 support in using Aliases in .GRP files. You are invited to send us your tips and tricks and read about them in the coming issues. For more details, click here

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Afcon Power and Automation won the tender for the Cinema City multiplex Afcon Power and Automation s.r.o., Afcon Industries Ltd. fully owned affiliate company in the Czech Republic, is taking part in a multifunction shopping center project in Pilsen. The Plzen Plaza will house high profile retail tenants as well as a multiplex Cinema City, Fantasy Park and restaurants, cafés and relaxation zones. Afcon Power and Automation won the tender for the Cinema City multiplex, estimated at roughly 1 million Euros. The P-CIM SCADA software system will be installed in the Cinema City project to monitor over and control every system in the building. The shopping center is built by the Plaza Center Company, a subsidiary of the Plaza Centers (Europe) B.V. Group, and international concern developing and advancing a superior standard of shopping and entertainment centers throughout Central and Eastern Europe. The size of the shopping center is roughly 27,000 sqm. Afcon Power and Automation is involved in every aspect of the Cinema City project, from the design and drawing phase to installing and setting-up every system in the complex (low voltage, heavy current, measurement and logging,) as well as designing, configuring and installing the P-CIM SCADA program that controls low voltage, heavy current, measurement and logging systems, and more. The P-CIM SCADA software system will control the following: • • •

HVAC equipment Cooling systems Monitoring energy consumption

The P-CIM SCADA project includes 800 I/Os and the communication with the remote PLC stations is done over Modbus protocol.

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About Afcon Power & Automation s.r.o. Afcon Power & Automation s.r.o. is engaged in system planning and execution of a wide range of electro-mechanical projects and control systems. Afcon Power & Automation s.r.o. is the exclusive distributor for the Czech market of software products from Afcon Industries Group provides software solutions in the sphere of SCADA/HMI applications and SMS system remote control.

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Afcon Announced New Online Support Services Afcon is happy to announce the launch of a new online support service that improves the quality of service and support for both distributors and customers.

"Giving our customers the option to interact with us over the web has always been important to us.” Said Orly Inbar, Marketing Manager “Usually, our customers would send their support queries to us using e-mail, Now, they have the option of signing up for a dedicated chat support service that allows them to talk to Afcon representative online. New Chat Room The chat room is an online support service open to Afcon distributors and customers that have a customer support service agreement with Afcon Software and Electronics Ltd. Afcon customers can benefit from the Afcon Chat Room service by getting solutions online from Afcon sales and technical support personnel. Please click here to enter to the Afcon Chat Room. New Glossary of terms A new glossary of terms was integrated into Afcon Web site to help you become familiar with Afcon and industry terms. The new glossary includes terms and acronyms relevant to Afcon products, P-CIM SCADA/HMI and Dart. Some of these terms are industry standards while others are unique to Afcon products. Please click here to enter to the Afcon Glossary. We hope you will enjoy using the new on-line support services. Please feel free to send your feedback.

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Tip: Dynamic Alarm text

Creating an alarm message with a dynamic text that contains values derived from other addresses generated by either a digital or an analog item. To create a dynamic text alarm message, use the dedicated database block PcimDbBlock and a Basic Scrip that creates a dynamic text string from both a DDE address and a static text and sends the dynamic text to a database dot field that holds the PcimDbBlock block's description. Follow the example below to create a dynamic text alarm; Address%= "DDE ADDRESS" DynamicData$ = str$( Address% ) DynamicDesc$= "static text " + DynamicData$ + "static text" DOACTION "set |!PcimDbBlock.BlkDesc " + DynamicDesc$ For example: ADDRESS%=|!1:1:40001 DynamicData$=str$(ADDRESS%) DynamicDesc$="S-"+ DynamicData $+"material stopped flowing" DOACTION "set |!PcimDbBlock.BlkDesc "+ DynamicDesc Make sure to set the block's Alarm Wait period to a minimum of 2 seconds.

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