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            <title type="text">Arev Hambardzumyan has become a Participating Member in ASTM International </title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions CTO Arev Hambardzumyan has become a Participating Member in ASTM International 
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                  RAFA Solutions CTO Arev Hambardzumyan has become a Participating Member in ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials) not-for-profit organization.   
  ASTM International is a voluntary standards organization that defines and publishes technical consensus standards for materials, products, systems and services.   
  Staying true to their motto “Helping Our World Work Better”, ASTM integrates consensus standards and innovative services to improve lives.   
  ASTM International members represent industry, academia, governments, trade groups, consumers and others. Their expertise is ensuring the high quality and relevance of ASTM International standards.   
  Technical documents developed by the members are the basis of manufacturing, management, procurement, codes and regulations for many industry sectors.  
  Arev is sure that being a part of ASTM International can help to improve knowledge in international standardization and make our products even better at the same time her knowledge gained during the last decade can highly contribute to the development of new standards and test methodologies.  
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    About RAFA Solutions      RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.     We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.     Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.     RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
 
    About ASTM International      ASTM International is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services.   
    For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
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                            <updated>2020-04-13T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions announced the update of its Language Support Toolkit </title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions announced the update of its Language Support Toolkit. The added feature allows to easily import/export translation files to CSV format
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   RAFA Solutions announced the update of its&amp;nbsp; Language Support Toolkit  created to ease the creation of multilingual user interfaces in LabVIEW applications.    
   With the newly added feature Language Support Toolkit allows to easily  import/export translation files to CSV format.     
   Created with this toolkit the language support files are used by the toolkit VIs to change the interface’s language. To lighten the weight of the files and optimize the operation they have binary formatting.    
   The new feature allows exporting language support files in CSV format, where the translations can be added, instead of the Language Support Editor application. After the translations are ready, they can be imported back to the software, where toolkit language support files are updated based on the new translations.    
   The Language Support Toolkit consists of 4 interconnected components:    
    1. Language Support Library  with all functions necessary for a multilingual option added to the Vis - language support integrated dialog box and Vis with front panel object properties like captions, button Boolean texts, custom menu items, tips, and descriptions, etc.    
    2. Language Support Integration  project template helps to easily create advanced projects with integrated language support. One of the included interface templates is for general language integrated interface and the other – allows changing the language during processing.    
    3. Language Support Editor  with a user-friendly interface. This editor takes the creation of support files to a completely different level of ease and convenience. VI control data can be added to the interface automatically, speeding up the process of making language support files. Besides providing the language information the editor lets to change control parameters like tables, trees, values or various controls.    
   After the update, the Language Support Editor allows importing and exporting translations files into CVS format files fast and easy.    
    4. Template VIs  that illustrate the control, menu, dialog language changing mechanisms and allow to change the interface language in the blink of an eye.    
   A Help file with a full description of the library, editor and template VIs is included.    
   The updated &quot;Language Support Toolkit with CSV Import/Export&quot; is also available on  NI Tools Network .   
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   About RAFA Solutions     RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.     We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.     Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.     RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
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                            <updated>2020-04-10T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions announced the release of a new product – SWD Toolkit for LabVIEW</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions announced the release of a new product – SWD Toolkit for LabVIEW. SWD Toolkit is a two-wire protocol for accessing the ARM debug interfaces.
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 &amp;nbsp; RAFA Solutions announced the release of a new product – SWD Toolkit for LabVIEW.  
  Serial Wire Debug (SWD) is a two-wire protocol for accessing the ARM debug interfaces. Serial Wire Debug is created as an alternative to JTAG transport method to perform operations on on-chip Debug Access Port (DAP) and peripheral specific Access Ports (AP).   
  In contrast with JTAG interface, SWD reduces required pin count and so provides higher efficiency when building systems supporting parallel firmware flashing to multiple devices.   
  Using an ARM standard bi-directional wire protocol (ARM Debug Interface v5) SWD receives and passes data to the debugger and the target system efficiently. SWD provides an interface to debug and trace functionality on processor cores and System on Chip devices.   
  Serial Wire Debug FPGA Toolkit easily implements and integrates SWD protocol in custom applications. The toolkit is a LabVIEW FPGA Library (containing drivers for SWD Master and Slave devices). The library ensures seamless integration of the code into LabVIEW FPGA. It also provides example VIs showing how to use the toolkit’s VIs.   
  SWD protocol is not compatible with JTAG but can be used to connect to legacy JTAG devices, providing supplementary benefits over a direct, daisy-chained JTAG architecture.   
  Some of the main features of the SWD Toolkit are simple API for fast integration into custom codes and configurable transmission rates.   
  SWD Toolkit will be soon available also on NI Tools Network  .  
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   About RAFA Solutions     RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.     We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.     Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.     RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
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                            <updated>2020-04-09T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Rafayel Ghasabyan at the Meeting with the President of Armenia</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions&#039; CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan participated in the meeting of the IT-sphere representatives with the President of Armenia
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                  On February 7 our CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan participated in the meeting of the IT-sphere representatives with the President of Armenia, taking place at the President&#039;s residence.&amp;nbsp;  
  The main purpose of the meeting was combining efforts in order to make Armenia a country of modern technologies. During the discussion, the Advanced Tomorrow (ATOM) presidential program was presented.   
  ATOM is a project consisting of three parts. Its goal is to bring leading IT companies to Armenia in order to practice advanced technology development such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), algorithm development with extensive math knowledge and machine learning by implementing educational programs.   
  After the presentation, the representatives of the sphere were encouraged to speak their minds regarding the program pointing out its weak and strong points.   
  Rafayel left the meeting with the impression that the President&#039;s technical background and understanding of the real power of Armenians for setting ambitious yet real strategies for the country&#039;s long-term development are very motivating.  
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   About RAFA Solutions     RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.     We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.     Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.     RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
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                            <updated>2020-02-18T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Manushak Vahramyan - a fully qualified ACCA Professional</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions&#039; CFO Manushak Vahramyan now has an ACCA full Professional qualification
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                  In December 2019 our CFO Manushak Vahramyan passed the last exam and now has an ACCA full Professional qualification.   
   Association of Chartered Certified Accountants  (ACCA) is the largest and fastest-growing leading international accountancy body in the world. Its qualification is recognized in other countries (member states of the European Union and the United Nations) as an equivalent to their local qualification.   
  Manushak’s path to the ACCA qualification started even before becoming a part of RAFA Solutions’ team. Trying to combine her work in the bank and deepening her knowledge in the financing field she decided to study and passed her first ACCA exam.   
  After joining RAFA Solutions company as a Quality Manager, Manushak decided to continue gaining knowledge in financial management and kept her determination of passing all 13 exams on the road of becoming a fully qualified ACCA Professional.   
  ACCA Professional qualification is of a high standard and is equivalent to completing a full University Degree.   
  Here are other ACCA qualification benefits that were important for Manushak:  
 
   becoming a Chartered Certified Accountant and having an opportunity to work in any aspect of finance or management in any business in the majority of European and other countries    
   confirmation that the holder possesses skills and knowledge which are in high demand by employers in the industry, banking, auditing, consulting as well as other professions like taxation and law   
   not only gaining specialist knowledge in finance and accounting but also acquiring valuable skills in organizational management and strategy    
   the 13 exams can be passed during 10 years giving an opportunity to work and study at the same time   
 
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   Manushak Vahramyan was recognized as  one of the 11 TOP achievers  in paper Advanced Performance Management (APM) Armenia and took 14th place in the worldwide rating.    
   Although it took 10 years for Manushak to fulfill her dream, she is happy to have chosen this journey and become a professional in international finance. This is also a big asset for our company which aims at becoming international and needs specialists with a global outlook.   
  Congratulations to Manushak and best wishes for her next success!  
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  About RAFA Solutions    RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.     We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.     Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.     RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
  About ACCA 
  Founded in 1904, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global professional accounting body offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification (ACCA).  
  ACCA works through a network of over 104 offices and centres in 52 countries - with 323 Approved Learning Partners (ALP) and more than 7,300 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide employee development.&amp;nbsp;   For more information, visit&amp;nbsp;    here.      
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                            <updated>2020-01-21T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions at the World Usability Congress 2019</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions&#039; UI/UX designer Mariam Hambardzumyan attended the World Usability Congress 2019 in Graz, Austria
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                  RAFA Solutions’ UI/UX designer Mariam Hambardzumyan participated in&amp;nbsp;the 7th&amp;nbsp; World Usability Congress&amp;nbsp;(WUC) &amp;nbsp;taking place on 1  6-17 of October 2019&amp;nbsp;  at the Messe Graz, Austria.&amp;nbsp;  
  The WUC is a two-day international conference created for UX designers. It gives an opportunity to UX specialists to make connections, meet qualified speakers from all over the world and participate in workshops.   
  The conference featured keynote speeches gathering all the participants together in a single hall, masterclasses, breakout and parallel sessions covering topics like UX and Robotics, Software Development, UX Psychology, eCommerce, UX Research, Data Visualization, Autonomous Driving, UX and AI, and Interaction Design.   
  The event started with a short speech from the organizer of the World Usability Congress -  Hannes Robier  and proceeded with  Alex Wright&#039;s  keynote speech &quot;Practical Futuring&quot;.   
  16th of October was full of remarkable parallel sessions like &quot;Transforming energy: user-centered design as a catalyst for innovation&quot; by  Jared Huke , &quot;User Requirements – Prioritization and Weighting as a core strategy in UX&quot; by  Clemens Lutsch , etc.   
  The first day of the event ended with a networking dinner at the Schlossberg-Restaurant in the center of Graz, where all the participants and speakers were invited. During the evening participants discussed the past and upcoming sessions and simply had a great time communicating with each other. The second day of the conference began with a breakfast and proceeded with parallel sessions.   
  From the 4 attended parallel sessions on the second day “Designing and developing a personality for AI and robots. Why? How? What?” by  Simon Rosenqvist  got the biggest response from the audience as well as “The Future is Dark… But is it Still Usable?” by  Skot Carruth &amp;nbsp;kept everyone in an exciting atmosphere.   
  The last keynote speech of the WUC - “UX for Up Close and Personal Robots” was presented by  Leland Hepler  from Boston Dynamics. Hepler endorsed his presentation with interesting case studies, comparisons and the importance of long-term purpose loop.   
  The closing ceremony of the World Usability Congress 2019 was held at Messepark with traditional roasted chestnuts.  
  For Mariam participating in the World Usability Congress was exciting, inspiring and useful in terms of networking and growth opportunities in the UX field which is full of aspects that weren’t exposed in any UX related event attended by her before  
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  About RAFA Solutions  
  RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.   We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.   Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.   RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  About World Usability Congress  
  The World Usability Congress (WUC) is an annual user experience conference held in Graz, Austria.&amp;nbsp;The WUC provides participants to network with fellow attendees and the world’s top thinkers and doers.  &amp;nbsp;For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
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                            <updated>2019-10-24T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions at DigiTec Expo 2019</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions took part in the most exciting international technological exhibition in Armenia - DigiTec EXPO 2019 held on October 6-9
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                  RAFA Solutions took part in one of the most exciting international technological exhibitions in Armenia -  DigiTec EXPO 2019 .   
  DigiTec Expo is a high-tech exhibition that has already become a traditional annual event in Yerevan. Its history begins in 2005, and since then DigiTec has been organized every autumn under the high patronage of the Government of the Republic of Armenia.   
  The event reflects the current state of the Armenian ICT market and provides an opportunity to get acquainted with new achievements, problems, as well as the prospects of the sphere. The 15th annual exhibition was held on October 6-9 at the “Yerevan Expo” center (Yerevan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines). It took 4 days instead of the usual 3 days.   
  RAFA Solutions was presenting the  Material Testing Machines Automation Platform  (MTMAP) – an automation system for Universal Testing Machines and one of its leading educational labs -  IIoThink .   
  MTMAP is created for the machines performing special tests like tension, compression, bend, shear strength, fatigue tests on various materials including metal, composite, plastic, rubber, sheet materials, wire, medical implants, etc. This universal solution for machines consists of a controller and a software environment which means that the Machine builders can create a new machine, customize it and build the corresponding end-customer’s software via configuration of the platform. The main benefits of the universal platform are the modular hardware platform, easily configurable software application and the user-friendly interface.   
  IIoThink is an educational lab, created to reduce the gap between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students, helping them to easily integrate into Industry 4.0. It is a three-month introductory course for on-boarding into the knowledge of sensors, actuators, data acquisition, connectivity, cloud computing, data analysis, etc., in other words - the essential parts of any IoT product. There are 2 versions of IIoThink Lab - based on  NI myRIO  and  NI ELVIS III .   
   This year DigiTec was proceeding in parallel with  World Congress on Information Technology  – WCIT2019 which brought to Armenia many business people and professionals from all over the world. This gave us the opportunity to have more attendees to our booth compared to previous years.  Xilinx  vice president visited our booth and as we use the FPGAs from Xilinx, we may have further meetings and tighter collaboration due to that short discussion during DigiTec.   
  During DigiTec19 RAFA Solutions’ team had a great time introducing their products and networking with other participants and the company’s potential partners.  
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  About RAFA Solutions    RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.     We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.     Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.     RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
 
 
  About DigiTec Business Forum  
    DigiTec Expo is an international high-tech exhibition which annually gathers around 120 leading Armenian and international IT companies and around 60,000 visitors in one platform. DigiTec has been organized every autumn under the high patronage of the Government of Republic of Armenia.    
    DigiTech Expo annually gathers leading Armenian and international IT professionals in one platform to provide B2B, B2C and B2G networking opportunities. The main objective of this technology festival is introducing the latest trends and innovations in this sphere by the experienced representatives of different industries.&amp;nbsp;   For more information, visit&amp;nbsp;  here.     
 
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                            <updated>2019-10-14T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions participated at the 15th Workshop on European Financial Reporting</title>
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                  RAFA Solutions’ financial manager Zhizel Dermenjyan participated in  15th Workshop on European Financial Reporting  (EUFIN) taking place at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, on 29-30 August 2019.   
  EUFIN workshop gives an opportunity for academics and practitioners interested in recent developments and research projects regarding financial reporting in Europe to meet and deep dive into the subject, its regulations, and harmonization, the process of change due to international developments.   
  The workshop featured parallel and plenary type of sessions. The plenary sessions were focused on the practical implications of current developments in the accounting and financial reporting aspects in Europe. The first plenary session attended by Zhizel - “Who can afford IFRS reporting?” was presented by IASB member  Ann Tarca , European Financial Reporting Advisory Group Chairwoman  Chiara Del Prete  and Professor of Accounting at the University of Antwerp  Ann Jorissen .  
  During the session, standards like IFRS 9 (financial instruments, impairments) and IFRS 15 (revenue from contracts with customers) were discussed as well as the importance of IFRS SME adoption.&amp;nbsp;The auditorium was quite active, asking questions about the IFRS implementation cost estimation and IFRS benefits.  
  The parallel session on the first day had interesting topics like “The IASB and comparability of international financial reporting” by  Ann Tarca  and “Global standards without the United States? Institutional Work and the U.S. Non-Adoption of IFRS” by  Christoph Pelger .   
  The first day of the conference was finalized with wine tasting and typical Viennese dinner, during which the participants had a great time communicating with each other.   
  One of the most remarkable plenary sessions of the second day was  Peters-Olbrich’s  “The effect of enforcement on Auditor Conservatism” topic, focusing on the overall financial reporting quality.  
   Zhizel found the participation at the EUFIN2019 useful and interesting for the opportunity of communicating with IASB members and experts of this field. The conference was also a platform of networking with representatives from all over Europe specialized in accounting and financial reporting.  
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  RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.   We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.   Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.   RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
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                            <updated>2019-09-06T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions participated in GDevCon #2 </title>
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                  RAFA Solutions participated in the  Independent Graphical Developer Conference  (GDevCon), which was held on 21-22 of August in Birmingham, United Kingdom.   
  GDevCon’s goal is to deliver high-quality graphical programming material covering a wide range of relevant topics. It helps to build an understanding of medium to large scale LabVIEW solutions.   
  Arev Hambardzumyan joined the conference both as a speaker and a participant. Arev presented her “Designing advanced UI/UX for LabVIEW based applications” topic during the second day of the event, gaining positive feedback from the conference participants.   
  During the presentation, the best practices for designing user-friendly and intuitive UIs were discussed. The presentation highlighted the main differences between UI designs depending on applications and intended users.   
  You may download her presentation from our website (if you are logged in).   
  A couple of words about what was there at GDevCon #2.   
  The first day of the event started with introductory presentations and more advanced presentations like “Application Design Around SQLite” by James Powell, “Why Bother With Continuous Integration?” by Chris Woodhams.   
  There was a discussion about different source code control tools, such as Jenkins and Git.   
  One of the most exciting news of the days was the announcement by the  National Instruments  about a free professional version of LabVIEW. It’s released for non-commercial, non-educational purposes for the LabVIEW community.   
  The 22nd of August was full of interesting topics like Tom McQuillan’s “Developing Plugin Tools: Take Your Frustrations Away” and Matthias Baudot’s “Start Programming Web Applications in Pure G, Now!”.   
  The event proceeded with a panel discussion focused on interviewing, hiring and motivating new developers in the companies. Quite inspiring motivational challenges were discussed – like organizing hackathons for the developers, assigning some free time from working hours for self-education, developing their interests.   
  GDevCon 2019 had very friendly and open environment encouraging everybody&#039;s active participation in the sessions, making them more interactive and interesting. The presentations were selected in such a way, that the conference was valuable to all participants, regardless of their LabVIEW knowledge level and background.  
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  About RAFA Solutions  
  RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.   We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.   Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.   RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  About GDevCon  
   GDevCon is an independent conference open to all graphical developers. Organised by leaders in the LabVIEW™ community, GDevCon is focused on delivering world-class graphical programming material covering a wide spread of topics relevant to today’s discerning developer.&amp;nbsp;For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.    
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                            <updated>2019-08-28T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Rafayel Ghasabyan participated as a speaker on UNDP&#039;s IDD 2019</title>
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                                            CEO at RAFA Solution Rafayel Ghasabyan has been invited by UNDP to participate at Istanbul Development Dialogues 2019 as a speaker. 
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                 Since their 2015 inception as the Dialogues on Inequality,  UNDP’s   Istanbul Development Dialogues (IDD)  have evolved into a global development forum where policy-makers, business leaders, and diverse experts – from journalists to designers – discuss the issues of our time. This year’s IDD has taken place on 27-28 May 2019, and were dedicated to the reality of global development in 2019.&amp;nbsp; 
   The topic of the panel discussion that Rafayel took part in was “Putting money to work for sustainable development”. It was moderated by Agnieszka Gajewska, Partner at PwC. It was a rare occasion for the whole conference to have a private sector representative rather than investors or fund managers.&amp;nbsp;   
   Rafayel talked about his experience of transforming a standard Edutech business into an Impact venture, and the challenges on its way. The educational courseware to bridge the gap between electrical engineers and computer scientists is the core of the  IIoThink  product. Their team understood that the future engineering employees and even the startupers require to have more broad knowledge about both hardware and software engineering, so they created the IIoThink to meet that need.&amp;nbsp;   
   He shared his vision towards the future of the life on Earth, which is going to be very much smarter and many products/items surrounding people are going to be equipped with some electronics and will be connected with other things as well as people. So to get prepared to the era of internet of things, every engineer or even user of those things should have broad knowledge about the IoT.&amp;nbsp;   
   Rafayel also elaborated on their success being part of the UNDP  ImpactAIM  program, and the support they had received from UNDP team to participate in various international conferences and increase the awareness of IIoThink in the market.&amp;nbsp;   
   He mentioned that the major Challenge is not mainly the lack of finance, but the challenge to collaborate with Governments, Ministries who are primarily responsible for building quality education system in corresponding countries. Being a Small and Medium enterprise, it is important for RAFA Solutions to have a financial as well as organizational support. But the main goal is to reach the decision makers and financial institutions who understand the importance of the impact of such an educational curriculum and can support the penetration of the latter all over the world. Although they have a valuable and successful product sold to several universities worldwide, they see a challenge in scaling up that success.   
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  About RAFA Solutions  
  RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.   We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.   Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.   RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
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   About&amp;nbsp;   Istanbul Development Dialogues 2019  
  Since their 2015 inception as the Dialogues on Inequality, UNDP’s Istanbul Development Dialogues (IDD) have evolved into a global development forum where policy-makers, business leaders, and diverse experts – from journalists to designers – discuss the issues of our time. This year’s IDD, to take place 27-28 May 2019, will be about the reality of global development in 2019. Four years after the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were unveiled to the world with the most ambitious and comprehensive range of targets – from eliminating poverty to curbing carbon emissions – many countries and organizations are getting up to speed to carry out the SDGs and monitor their progress.  
 
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                            <updated>2019-06-10T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions at NIWeek 2019</title>
            <id>https://rafasolutions.com/news/announcements/rafa-solutions-at-niweek-2019</id>
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                                            CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan and CTO Arev Hambardzumyan represented RAFA Solutions on this year&#039;s NIWeek that took place on May 20-24 in Texas.
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                  With this year’s motto “Full Force Ahead” NIWeek took place in Austin, Texas from 20 to 23rd of May.   
  Thousands of engineers, scientists, and business leaders around the world took part in more than 200 conference sessions, hands-on workshops, panels, and demonstrations.   
  As always, NIWeek gave a chance to experience the latest technology advancements in the Exhibit Hall, discover new approaches to solve engineering challenges, gain inspiration with stimulating keynote sessions.   
  This year some interesting highlights were added to the NIWeek:  
 
   The Future Technology pavilion  - exploring the technologies that are going to fundamentally alter our industry over the next 10 years.  
   Diversity in Engineering Track  - exploring important subjects related to gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and working in a global economy.   
 
   RAFA Solutions representatives on the NIWeek were CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan and CTO Arev Hambardzumyan. On the LabVIEW Excellence Awards ceremony held on the second day of the event, Arev Hambardzumyan got her LabVIEW Champion award. LabVIEW Champions are National Instruments platform enthusiasts who have been recognized for their outstanding application development, technical depth and breadth, leadership, and contributions to the LabVIEW community.&amp;nbsp;  
  NI Tools Network 2019 Winners were acknowledged:   
 
   Developer Productivity  category -   Ngene   (our peer Armenian company) with “NNotate” product   
   Application Enablement  category –   monoDrive   with “Autonomous Vehicle Simulator” product   
   Platform Connectivity  category –  DigiMetrix  with “Robotics Library for Stäubli” product   
   Community Contribution  category -   Q Software Innovations   with “QControl Toolkit” product   
 
   During the NIWeek 2019, the 25th anniversary of NI was celebrated – on the second day of the event, a party was held. Taking part in one of the most important NI events helped us to discover new ways to improve productivity, find new connections with partner companies and strengthen our partnership with NI. Our delegation from RAFA Solutions represented by Arev and Rafayel, had several meetings with National Instruments R&amp;amp;D to share our feedback and future plans towards using National Instruments equipment and software. It is very important for us to keep tight relations with our technology partner, and share the industry needs with them.&amp;nbsp;Being NI’s Silver Alliance Partner RAFA Solutions does its best to help NI customers efficiently solve their engineering challenges.  
 
  About RAFA Solutions&amp;nbsp;   RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.   We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.   Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.   RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  About the NIWeek   NIWeek is the ultimate learning environment that connects both novice and expert users for three days of interactive technical sessions and hands-on workshops, case study presentations, and panel discussions on the latest advancements in design, control, automation, manufacturing, and test. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here .  
 
 
  Trademarks   National Instruments, NI and ni.com are trademarks of National Instruments. RAFA Solutions and rafasolutions.com are trademarks of RAFA Solutions. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.  
 
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                            <updated>2019-05-27T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">CSIA Executive Conference 2019</title>
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                                            Rafael Ghasabyan has participated in the annual CSIA Executive Conference which this time took place in Ashville, NC.
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                  Rafayel Ghasabyan has participated in the annual  Control System Integrators Association’s  (CSIA) Executive Conference which this time took place in Asheville, NC.  
  CSIA Conference gives a chance to hundreds of system integrator companies and industry partners to share thoughts and best practices offline, hear about new products and participate in sessions held by internationally known speakers.  
  Named “ Celebrating our 25th Anniversary: Reaching the Next Peak ” the 2019 Executive Conference started with discussing the current state of the industry and global trends affecting system integrators, as well as the changes in the new fifth edition of the Best Practices.  
  This year program included more small group activities to maximize this unique opportunity for peer to peer communication. Industry Expo and Reception was held on the 3rd day of the conference which gave an opportunity to meet with business leaders from all spheres of control system integration. The workshops ranged from finances to marketing, project management to HR topics and gave useful insights into all aspects of the system integration business.  
  The award ceremony was held on the last gala dinner, appreciating best achievers in the industry. The conference final day opened with the traditional panel discussion on industry representatives’ failure stories.  
  Rafayel had valuable discussions with peer companies in a non-formal atmosphere getting familiar with the problems and challenges various industry leaders face during their business career. This was a good inspiration and guideline for our future business perspectives.  
  You may check also the video broadcast Rafayel shoot once being there, follow  this link  to watch the video.  
  To summarize the most important aspect of such a conference for us is the learning, open and sharing atmosphere, that is being promoted by the CSIA that helps our company to leverage the best practices for this industry and to escape from failures that others have shared with us.&amp;nbsp;  
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  About RAFA Solutions   RAFA Solutions provides Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for Industrial Automation.   We are a system integrator company with extensive software as well as hardware development expertise leveraging advanced technologies. Our high quality automation systems are a result of engineering excellence.   Our engineers have the expertise to build high quality, reliable and cost-effective products and solutions that can take industrial or manufacturing operations to a whole new level of productivity.   RAFA Solutions team can develop detailed system requirements and designs to solve your automation problems starting from a sketch on a piece of paper or your well thought out concept. For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  About CSIA   Founded in 1994,  CSIA  is a not-for-profit, global trade association that seeks to advance the industry of control system integration. Control system integrators use their engineering, technical and business skills to help manufacturers and others automate their industrial equipment and systems. CSIA helps members improve their business skills, provides a forum to share industry expertise, and promotes the benefits of hiring a certified control system integrator. CSIA has more than 500 members in over 30 countries.  
 
 
  Trademarks  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;   RAFA Solutions and rafasolutions.com are trademarks of RAFA Solutions. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;   Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.  
 
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