2000

N° 012 of 04-12-2000 – Suspension of the telephone assistance service

The telephone assistance service will be suspended for the Christmas holidays from Wednesday 27 December to Friday 5 January. The service will resume normally on Monday 8 January.
Automa takes this opportunity of wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (and Millennium!).

N° 011 of 15-09-2000 – "Automazione Integrata" and Super-Flash

In the August 2000 edition of "Automazione Integrata", on page 45, Aldo Cavalcoli presented a dossier about supervision systems. There was, as one could expect, extensive reference to the Supervisione Libera products, especially Super-Flash and MicroC.

N° 010 of 29-08-2000 – MainteX: presentation and brochure

Two new interesting publications are available for downloading in this site's download section. They are the presentation of MainteX in PPT and the MainteX brochure in PDF format.

N° 009 of 26-07-2000 – Cover dedicated to MainteX

"Automazione e Strumentazione", the industrial electronics magazine edited by ANIPLA (Italian National Association for Automation), dedicated the cover of the May 2000 issue to MainteX, the maintenance management software developed by Right Systems and distributed by Automa.

N° 008 of the 26-07-2000 – Suspension of the telephone assistance service

The telephone assistance service will be suspended for the summer holidays from 7 August to 25 August. It will resume normally on Monday 28 August 2000.

N° 007 of the 14-04-2000 – MainteX presentation

MainteX is a compact and economical solution for maintenance; MainteX 1.0 incorporates Dolphin, the Automa product for Super-Flash network communication.
MainteX is a product developed by Right Systems and distributed by Automa.
As announced in Automa News n° 62, Automa is organising several group presentations of MainteX at its headquarters which will be presented by Valter Parma of Right Systems. At the end of the course the participants will be given a CD with the demonstration version of MainteX.
The presentations will be held on Tuesday 9 May, Thursday 11 May and Thursday 18 May, from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Contact Automa for information and bookings on +39 035665956 or automa@automa.it .

N° 006 of the 01-03-2000 – Suspension of the telephone assistance service

Automa informs you that the telephone assistance service will be temporarily suspended over the Easter holiday. The service will not be provided on April 26, 27 and 28 and will be resumed on Tuesday May 2 2000.

N° 005 of the 29-02-2000 – Update of the "Super-Flash Problems"

Together with the release of version 3.2b of Super-Flash, we announce the availability of the new documents containing the list of problems encountered in the various versions of Super-Flash and certain other Supervisione Libera products. The documents, available in the Download section in Adobe PDF format, updated to February 22 2000..

N° 004 of the 29-02-2000 – Release of Super-Flash 3.2b

Version 3.2b of Super-Flash, which resolves the problems encountered in previous versions, is available as of today. WSF and WRunfile have also been included in version 3.2b. All the updated versions can be found in the Download section.

N° 003 of the 14-02-2000– Release of Real 1.1

A new version of Driver Real is available: this version makes it possible to operate directly on block variables. We remind you that Driver Real processes the values read from the PLC, converting them from Floating-Point format to decimal format (and vice versa). The update is available in the Download section of this website.

N° 002 of the 09-02-2000 – Protection boards and the Intel 810 Chipset

Communications continue to be received relative to the failure of the protection boards fitted to certain Personal Computers to function. To date the problem has been encountered on Compaq DeskPro, HP Brio and IBM 300GL PCs but, unfortunately, the list is likely to increase! These PCs, in fact, are fitted with the Intel 810 Chipset (an economy class component generally combined with Celeron microprocessors) this chipset is the most probable cause of some interference on the parallel ports which does not allow certain peripherals to operate, which also include our protection boards (source: Eutron). Should you have encountered the problem too, check whether this component is present inside the PC before contacting the AUTOMA assistance service. There is a simple way of doing this: run program TESTVESA, supplied with the Super-Flash package, from MS-DOS. If the message "Intel 810 (TM) Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA Bios" appears it means that your PC, too, is not compatible with the standard prescriptions considered valid up to now. If, however, the problem occurs with chipset versions other than the one indicated, please signal this in detail using box assist@automa.it. The manufacturer of the protections distributed by AUTOMA has already released a new version of the board that fully supports the incompatibility of the Intel 810 Chipset.

N° 001 of the 28-01-2000 – Applicom boards for the PCI Bus

The Applicom boards to be fitted to the PCI Bus are also available to Super-Flash users. This opportunity adapts best to the technical characteristics of the new Personal Computers, which tend to prefer the PCI configuration rather than the standard ISA. The only important warning, that users must comply with, is that the board can only be used in Windows environments (95, 98, NT), so Super-Flash applications must all be provided with the WRunfile driver. When ordering, those interested in the new Applicom board must explicitly mention that PCI is installed, considering that the default is ISA. There is no price change for the new boards with respect to those quoted in the past.