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            <title type="text">Getting Ready for Hannover Messe 2018</title>
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                                            What are the business do-s and don’t-s in Germany, the business etiquette and ways to interact with and attract potential partners and investors? These and similar topics revealing the German business culture were under discussion led by Martin Reinfeldt‏, international expert...
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                 What are the business do-s and don’t-s in Germany, the business etiquette and ways to interact with and attract potential partners and investors? These and similar topics revealing the German business culture were under discussion led by Martin Reinfeldt‏, international expert specialized in organizational development, at an “enlightening” training organized by SMEDA for the Armenian Delegation prior to heading to Hannover Messe 2018. RAFA Solutions also has participated in the discussion and learned how efficiently present at the trade, establish business connections and cooperation. 
 For more information please visit&amp;nbsp; https://www.smeda.am/en/activities/activity-highlights/82  
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  About SMEDA   The “Support to SME Development in Armenia” or&amp;nbsp;SMEDA&amp;nbsp;project commenced in 2016. It is co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and it is implemented by GIZ’s “Private Sector Development in South Caucasus Programme”. SMEDA is part of the EU4Business ( www.eu4business.eu ) and EU4Innovation initiatives of the European Union.&amp;nbsp;The objective of SMEDA is to improve the business and investment climate and support the creation and development of SMEs to enable broad-based growth in Armenia along five result areas.&amp;nbsp;The project is implemented in cooperation with different partners aiming at strengthening the private sector, strengthening the capacities of Armenian SMEs to foster competitiveness, linking research and economic institutions, ensuring proper implementation of innovation business management practices, promoting and developing economic clusters, free economic zones, incubators, and techno-parks.  
  For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; https://www.smeda.am/   
 
 
  About Hannover Messe   Hannover Messe is the world’s leading Trade Fair for industrial Technology. All key technologies and core areas of industry – from research and development, industrial automation, IT, industrial supply, production technologies and services to energy and mobility technologies – can be found in Hannover.  
 
  More than 5,000 international exhibitors  
  200,000 attendees  
  More than 1,400 lectures &amp;amp; panels  
  64% top decisionmakers  
  5.6 million business contacts in 5 days  
  2,500 journalists from all over the world  
 
  For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; http://www.hannovermesse.de   
 
 
  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; http://www.rafasolutions.com   
 
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                            <updated>2018-04-23T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions at AEON job fair</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions participated in a job fair organized by AEON anticafe. It was a pleasant, professional, interactive occasion to communicate with potential employees. Our team really enjoyed the presence of intelligent and smart people searching for a job, and we were happy to i...
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                  RAFA Solutions&amp;nbsp;participated in a job fair organized by&amp;nbsp;  AEON  &amp;nbsp;anticafe.&amp;nbsp;It was&amp;nbsp;a pleasant, professional, interactive occasion to communicate with potential employees. Our team really enjoyed the presence of intelligent and smart people searching for a job, and we were happy to introduce our vacancies to those interested.&amp;nbsp;  
  “AR” TV channel visited AEON’s job fair as well and&amp;nbsp;made a short TV report about the IT labor market of Armenia. Our Chief Marketing Manager Ani Artenyan participated in an interview with the TV channel where she told about career growth and educational development opportunities at RAFA Solutions.  
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  About AEON   AEON, Yerevan’s first ever anti-café, first opened its doors in the unbelievably cold winter of 2014. The unfamiliar word “anti-café”, its unique name and its hard-to-find location quickly grabbed the interest of social networks and the media. Now it feels like AEON has always been here, at the corner of Teryan and Pushkin streets, in the backyard of the ruins of the destroyed Afrikyans’ Club.  
  For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  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>2018-03-10T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Armenian member receives CSIA Certification for the first time</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions’ CEO posted an article at Control System Integrators Association website about the impact the quality certification had on the company processes.
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                 RAFA Solutions’ CEO posted an article at Control System Integrators Association website. 
 I would like to share our experience working with CSIA and Exotek to improve RAFA Solutions as an organization and take it to another level. 
 It has been only four months since we have received our CSIA Certification, but we can already feel the changes and measure the impact. Let me start from the beginning. It took us more than a year to prepare, basically to understand and to apply the best practices presented by CSIA. The journey we took toward getting Certified is one of the most important ones we’ve undertaken because that is when we learned about the major processes to use in running an organization, some of which we didn’t initially have at RAFA Solutions. 
 Over the past year and a half, my personal attitude and opinion about working to becoming Certified were very conflicted. When we first decided to start, we did so because we generally understood that we cannot have a sustainable and growing system integration business without a strong foundation. This opinion changed while we were in the middle of the journey when everyone in the company started noticing that we were spending a lot of time on this. Everyone, including myself, started feeling a bit doubtful about the importance that this had to be done at that moment of time when we have critical projects going on and limited time for thinking about the long-term. There were moments when we even stopped working on the CSIA Certification process. 
 Then, we got a potential customer — a several-billion-dollar revenue organization — who pushed us to become more organized and required us to have the ISO9001 quality certificate. This was another point when we decided again to concentrate on all the processes and re-evaluate priorities. In parallel with work on CSIA Certification, we began to learn about the ISO9001:2015 standard and its requirements. Looking back, I can say, in short, that ISO9001 requires having some proper processes and emphasizes the importance of following them, but CSIA tells us what processes we should have to become successful as a systems integrator business. 
 At the end, our commitment to improve triumphed over all the challenges, and in April 2017, we were ready to host Don Roberts, an auditor from Exotek, for the final audit. Those couple of days that Don spent with us were the most informative and educational. We were left with many pain points and an understanding of the areas we needed to concentrate on. It was very surprising for us how well he understood the challenges we face and how those can be resolved. Later, during the CSIA Executive Conference, I recognized that we were not alone — other system integrators have similar company structure and processes to those we face. 
 CSIA changed our thinking. This is not a year’s, or even a couple of years’ project, but this is an SI organization’s algorithm for success and we must pay attention to all the points in the Best Practices all the time to always improve and grow. 
 I have many friends who have system integration businesses and they often ask me why we should want to get CSIA Certified. Often, they think that the reason is to become more recognized and that potential customers may require having such Certification. My answer to them is very much different. For me, Certification should not be pursued for customers’ recognition or for the sake of recognition at all. The biggest reason is to learn how to build and maintain a profitable system integration business. Most of us, the owners of such businesses, have engineering backgrounds. It is natural for us to prioritize the products and services we deliver, concentrating on the engineering. Often, we forget that the company itself requires more attention to be soundly built and engineered. 
 Being a small company, we never had a leadership team. I was the only one thinking about the managerial details. Now there are four of us who share responsibilities for the company’s major processes, and to keep improving them. With the help of this team and the vision we all believe in and follow, we were able to scale up our team 50% during the last 4-5 months and to increase revenues to almost twice what they were when compared to the same period last year. Before, we struggled to make new sales and bring in new business for ourselves and for our technology partner – National Instruments. Recently, we landed two opportunities, bringing business both to NI and to RAFA Solutions. 
 In May 2017, we attended the CSIA Executive Conference in Fort Lauderdale. That experience provided additional proof that what we started is very important. This is where we got acquainted with the biggest and fastest-growing SI companies from all over the world. I was impressed with their openness and willingness to share and support smaller businesses like ours. 
 I think the major change we experienced during this period of growth and understanding is the change in our priorities. The highest priority now probably becomes answering the questions about why we do what we are doing and if we are doing those things in the most efficient way. 
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                            <updated>2017-09-12T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Interview with RAFA Solutions: Helping Customers Learn, Create, and Grow</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions’ CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan shared the story of RAFA Solutions with Why Armenia journalist.
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                  RAFA Solutions’ CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan shared the story of RAFA Solutions with&amp;nbsp;  Wh  y Armenia &amp;nbsp; journalist.  
  RAFA Solutions is a systems integrator company specializing in Smart Machines and data acquisition/control systems. Established in 2012, the company is a National Instruments Silver Alliance Partner. To find out more, we talked to Rafayel Ghasabyan, CEO/Founder of RAFA Solutions.  
    WA: What is the history behind your company and how is it growing today?    
  I used to work as a systems engineer for the Armenian branch of National Instruments and I used to travel to various customers to deliver proof of concepts. National Instruments is a technology company and my responsibilities focused on building solution based on that technology, proving that a solution worked and to find partners for particular projects.  
  In 2011, I understood that there were projects for which it was difficult to find partners. I got an idea that maybe I could do that myself, so I started my own company and received the first project through the network of National Instruments.  
  In 2014, we took a strategic approach to expand our clientele and redefined ourselves as a machinery company. We build the electronics and software for material testing machines, our clients are the actual machine builders who rely on our technology.  
    WA: What services do you provide?    
  We do systems integration. System integrating companies combine different technologies, add their own knowledge, IT software or hardware, and deliver the whole system as one, as a Solution.&amp;nbsp;We provide Robust and Flexible Advanced Solutions for machinery control and automation.  
  In 2014, we launched our educational labs product line. Our educational products are available for purchase through our distribution network and have been delivered to dozens of universities all over the world.  
  We help our customers to learn, create, and grow through machinery and advanced engineering. There are three major directions in the industrial field that we are doing.  
 
 
  Material testing: the implementation of automation solutions for machines that are testing the properties of various materials, such as plastics, metals, etc.  
 
 
  Non-destructive testing solutions, which are mostly designed for such testing where you do not need to disturb the structure of the material.  
 
 
  The automotive component test and hardware in the loop testing.  
 
 
  To prove to our customers that we are the best partner for hardware integration and software development, we have created two other disciplines or specialties. One of them is&amp;nbsp; Learn , and the other is&amp;nbsp; Grow .  
  With&amp;nbsp; Learn , we help our customers to study, to learn something.  With &amp;nbsp; Grow ,&amp;nbsp;we help our customers to grow as we understand that we cannot grow fast alone if we do not share whatever we know, all the technology that we create.  
    WA: What are your recent or most important achievements?    
  In 2014, National Instruments created a platform for engineering, the LabVIEW tools network, where anyone can sell their own products. We started promoting our products there and now we are the #1 company with the number of products on this platform. LabVIEW tools network tremendously increased out global visibility.  
  Recently, we received a   CSIA certificate  &amp;nbsp;(Control Systems Integrators Association) for our complete business process to conduct systems integration. Based in the US, CSIA combines high-quality system integrators all over the world as well as provides a platform for sharing best practices. While there are approximately 500 companies in the association, only 90 companies are certified. It is a company level business-process certification. We were the first company in Armenia to receive this certificate.  
 Other precious certifications for our company are&amp;nbsp; ISO 9001:2015 , Quality Certification, which we achieved recently, as well. 
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                            <updated>2017-07-19T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Armenian precision engineering and IoT companies prepare for Hannover trade f...</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions will attend the Hannover Messe 2018 trade fair and take part in a roadshow in Germany organized by the EU4Business SMEDA project.
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                  According to the official web page of EU4Business, four Armenian companies specialized&amp;nbsp;in Precision Engineering and the Internet of Things (IoT) will attend the&amp;nbsp;  Hannover Messe 2018  &amp;nbsp;trade fair and take part in a roadshow in Germany organized by the&amp;nbsp;EU4Business&amp;nbsp;SMEDA project&amp;nbsp;(Support to SME Development in Armenia), from&amp;nbsp;April 17-28, 2018.  
  The four companies&amp;nbsp; RAFA Solutions ,&amp;nbsp; Bitlis-MEN ,&amp;nbsp; Volterman Inc . and&amp;nbsp; Grovf &amp;nbsp;were selected by SMEDA following a call for applications.  
  The selected companies will have a chance to network with relevant and potential partners, senior officials, investors, and clients not only from Europe but also from all over the world.  
 For more information please visit&amp;nbsp; here.  
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  About SMEDA   The “Support to SME Development in Armenia” or&amp;nbsp;SMEDA&amp;nbsp;project commenced in 2016. It is co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and it is implemented by GIZ’s “Private Sector Development in South Caucasus Programme”. SMEDA is part of the EU4Business ( www.eu4business.eu ) and EU4Innovation initiatives of the European Union.&amp;nbsp;The objective of SMEDA is to improve the business and investment climate and support the creation and development of SMEs to enable broad-based growth in Armenia along five result areas.&amp;nbsp;The project is implemented in cooperation with different partners aiming at strengthening the private sector, strengthening the capacities of Armenian SMEs to foster competitiveness, linking research and economic institutions, ensuring proper implementation of innovation business management practices, promoting and developing economic clusters, free economic zones, incubators, and techno-parks.  
  For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  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>2017-04-17T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Armenian HighTech Startups</title>
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                                            Armenian American Business Council posted an article about RAFA Solutions company’s Oil Pipeline Monitoring System.
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                  Armenian American Business Council posted an article about RAFA Solutions company’s&amp;nbsp;  Oil Pipeline Monitoring System  
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   RAFA Pipeline Monitoring   
 
  RAFA Solutions has given a service to “IOCL” (Indian Oil Corporation LTD) company for development of the data acquisition software.  
  The software has been developed and tested on-site in the customer pipeline testing facility.  
  The method used for the solution was magnetic flux leakage (MFL). MFL allows detecting metal loss due to corrosion, gouging and other defects.  
 
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                            <updated>2017-03-20T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions. Big experience of a team of 10</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions CEO was interviewed by Armef News during DigiTec EXPO 2016.
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                  RAFA Solutions CEO was interviewed by Armef News during DigiTec EXPO 2016.  
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    ՌԱՖԱ   &amp;nbsp;   ՍՈԼՅՈՒՇՆՍ   .&amp;nbsp; 10&amp;nbsp;    ՀՈԳԱՆՈՑ   &amp;nbsp;   ՄԵԾ   &amp;nbsp;   ՓՈՐՁԱՌՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ    
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        Հայաստանում շատ հեշտ է թիմեր ստեղծել, լուրջ նախագծեր մշակել        
        և դրսում իրականացնել:        
   «ՌԱՖԱ Սոլյուշնս» ընկերությունը հիմնադրվել է 2012թ.: Ստեղծում է սարքավորումների ղեկավարման և ավտոմատացման հուսալի, ճկուն և առաջատար լուծումներ, այդ թվում նաև նավթարդյունաբերության ոլորտում: Ընկերությունը National Instruments-ի Արծաթե գործընկերն է:   
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      DigiTec Expo 2016- ում     &amp;nbsp;   «ՌԱՖԱ &amp;nbsp; Սոլյուշնսը» &amp;nbsp; ներկայացրել &amp;nbsp; է  &amp;nbsp;իր լուծումներից մեկը, որը ստեղծել են հատուկ Հնդկաստանի համար: Այն նավթատար խողովակաշարի մոնիթորինգի համակարգ է, ռոբոտ, որը մագնիսական դաշտի միջոցով կարողանում է հայտնաբերել կոռոզիան և մնացած բոլոր խնդիրները, նաև՝ կանխատեսել հետագայում առաջանալիք խնդիրները:  &amp;nbsp;   
 «Ծրագիրը մշակել ենք երկու տարի առաջ՝ մեզ հետ համագործակցող կազմակերպության հետ, որը պատրաստել է մեխանիկայի մասը: Մեր ընկերությունը իրականացրել է էլեկտրոնիկայի և ամբողջ ծրագրային ապահովման մասերը: Նմանատիպ այլ նախագծեր էլ ենք իրականացնում: Ստեղծել ենք պինդ մարմինների հետազոտման հաստոցներ, որոնք պլաստմասսայի, մետաղի կամ ռետինի հատկություններ են ուսումնասիրում: Ճկում, ձգում, սեղմում՝ տարբեր ուժեր են կիրառում և կարողանում ի հայտ բերել դրանց թույլ և ուժեղ կողմերը: Օգտագործվում են հիմնականում մեքենաշինության և նավթարդյունաբերության ոլորտներում: Օգտագործվում են նաև սննդարդյունաբերության մեջ: Դա դարձրել ենք պրոդուկտ և վաճառում ենք բազմաթիվ կազմակերպությունների: Այս նախագծով հիմա աշխատում ենք ամերիկյան կազմակերպության հետ»,- ասում է «ՌԱՖԱ Սոլյուշնսի» տնօրեն Ռաֆայել Ղասաբյանը:   &amp;nbsp;    
   Այդ ամենն իրականացնում է 10 հոգանոց թիմ, որոնցից 8-ն են ծրագրավորող: Բոլորն աշխատում են Հայաստանում, բայց հաճախ ստիպված են լինում ճամփորդել՝ պատվիրատուներին նախագծերը հանձնելու կամ ընթացիկ տարբեր հարցերի բերումով: Նախատեսում ե 2017թ. թիմը 50%-ով մեծացնել, բայց հասկանալիորեն՝ շատ բան պայմանավորված է ստացվելիք պատվերներից:  &amp;nbsp;   
   Ռաֆայել Ղասաբյանի գնահատմամբ՝ Հայաստանում շատ հեշտ է թիմեր ստեղծել ու լուրջ նախագծեր գրել և դրսում իրականացնել. «Պետք է այդ հնարավորությունը լավագույնս օգտագործել, և դրա ուղիներից մեկն էլ ԴիՋիԹեքն է, որին մասնակցել ենք ստեղծման տարվանից սկսած՝ ամեն տարի: Սա մի հարթակ է, որտեղ հանդիպում և ծանոթանում ենք մեր նման կազմակերպությունների հետ: Հատկապես, որ այն տարեցտարի փոխվում է, նոր կազմակերպություններ են մասնակցում, նոր մտահղացումներ են կյանքի կոչվում և այստեղ ցուցադրվում»:  &amp;nbsp;   
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            <title type="text">Beeleev’s blog post about RAFA Solutions</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions’ CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan shared the story of RAFA Solutions and his vision for making the machines smarter and connected for “Smart Factories” so-called Industry 4.0.
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                  RAFA Solutions’ CEO Rafayel Ghasabyan shared the story of RAFA Solutions and his vision for&amp;nbsp;making the machines smarter and connected for “Smart Factories” so-called Industry 4.0.  
  Rafayel Ghasabyan, Beeleever &amp;amp; CEO at&amp;nbsp; RAFA Solutions &amp;nbsp;– “With my engineering background, namely working as a Systems Engineer for National Instruments, I had a perfect chance to grow personally and traveled a lot visiting various customers in different parts of the world. I learned all the ropes of business making and was thrilled with the vision&amp;nbsp; to make the machines smarter and connected . And that was the way Robust And Flexible Advanced (RAFA) Solutions was born in my mind.  
 At  the beginning of 2014, thanks to our in-depth knowledge of embedded software development and hardware design, we embarked on building trainer kits and educational systems for our customers. Those are aimed at teaching the basics of major industrial protocols and automation techniques, which are indispensable for the industry. By launching it,&amp;nbsp; we&amp;nbsp;  encompassed the&amp;nbsp;  full range&amp;nbsp;  from learning to growing, thus helping&amp;nbsp; our customers to Learn, Create and to Grow with the products and services we provide.  
  One of the biggest challenges when starting a business in the field of industrial automation is&amp;nbsp; having a reliable and supportive technology partner , and we found it. At this stage, we also considered&amp;nbsp; the huge intellectual capacity of Armenia . Being the “Silicon Valley” for the former Soviet Union, it has kept and always nurtured the potential of the workforce and its engineering capacity. The&amp;nbsp; Armenian National Engineering laboratories &amp;nbsp;also helped us a lot in finding the best people in the territory. Moreover, it is important to underline&amp;nbsp; the knowledge and high level of proficiency in Russian, English and even Arabic languages &amp;nbsp;within our team, and in general, the available resources in Armenia, which played its own role in the overall success of our company.  
  We believe the key to success in any advanced project development is the&amp;nbsp; full understanding of the project nature, as well as helping the customer to define the scope of the project . Beyond the helpful critical design reviews and frequent customer visits, we always&amp;nbsp;follow our internal regulations&amp;nbsp; to engineer the project plan created in the previous stage.”  
  Read the blog on&amp;nbsp; Beeleev .  
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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 Beeleev   Beeleev is the first worldwide platform dedicated to generate&amp;nbsp;meaningful connections between innovative entrepreneurs.&amp;nbsp;  Beeleev is a collaborative network that regroups promising entrepreneurs wanting to expand their businesses abroad.  
  Company&amp;nbsp;aims at inspiring Beeleevers international growth. The&amp;nbsp;mission is to connect gifted entrepreneurs, CEOs who face the same challenges, from all over the world so that their collective spirit and drive can further ignite their inspiration and empower their dreams to truly take flight.  
  Beeleev clusters 2,100 entrepreneurs in 205 countries on 5 continents. The network has already the support of young growing companies, but also through established corporations such as Orange, Galeries Lafayette, Vinci…  
  For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  Trademarks   Beeleev&amp;nbsp;and beeleev.com are trademarks of Beeleev. 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>2016-03-07T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA Solutions was featured in the CNN International’s “The Silk Road: Past, ...</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions was featured in the CNN International’s “The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future” series.
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                 RAFA Solutions was featured in the CNN International’s “The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future” series. 
 “The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future” travels east to west along this ancient trade route, exploring how traditional culture, arts, and trade have developed in the 21st century. Beginning in China, and ending in northern Italy, the journey focuses on a different country each month. 
 This month CNN was visiting Armenia and Georgia. 
 The series is presented by CNN correspondent Sumnima Udas, who quoted that “In Armenia, I saw how the capital Yerevan is becoming a regional center for digital technology and innovation, much of which is then exported.” 
 Armenian episode of the series was dedicated to Armenia’s digital technology and innovation. 
 Three IT companies were presenting their achievements in the technology sector – “RAFA Solutions”, “Triada Studio” and “Technology and Science Dynamics”, which presented “ArmTab” factory. 
 RAFA Solutions presented correspondents its current projects, as well as its future plans. 
 Speaking about&amp;nbsp;the technological heritage of Armenia, director of RAFA Solutions Rafayel Ghasabyan notes: “I would probably say Armenia was kind of a Silicon Valley of the Soviet Union time”. 
 According to Udas “There are challenges of course.&amp;nbsp;For the new Silk Road to work, these smaller countries need their larger neighbors to be on board.&amp;nbsp;Regional cooperation is vital, cross-border transport and connectivity still need to be improved, and investment opportunities need to be facilitated. But in places like Tbilisi, Yerevan, and Muscat the optimism surrounding the modern Silk Road is already palpable”. 
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  About CNN International   CNN International (CNNI) is an international English language cable, satellite, IPTV and digital terrestrial television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. The channel carries news, current affairs, politics, sports, opinions, features and business programming worldwide; it cooperates with parent network CNN’s national and international news bureaus. Unlike its sister channel, CNN, a US-only cable TV service which is mostly broadcast from CNN studios at the Time Warner Center in New York City on weekdays and CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia at the weekend, CNN International is carried on a variety of TV platforms across the world, and mostly broadcast from studios outside the US, in London, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. CNN International is available in most countries, its international reach includes more than 200 million households in over 200 countries.&amp;nbsp;  
  For more information, visit&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  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>2015-11-23T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Innovative Holiday: 11th technology exhibition Digitec Expo 2015 launched in ...</title>
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                                            PanArmenian mentioned RAFA Solutions as a small company that managed to occupy good positions in the field of innovative machine construction.
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                  PanArmenian mentioned RAFA Solutions as a small company that managed to occupy good positions in the field of innovative machine construction.   
  Инновационный праздник: В Ереване стартовала одиннадцатая технологическая выставка Digitec Expo 2015. Дети увидят будущее, молодежь сможет воспользоваться технологиями, а взрослое поколение будет уверено, что достигнутый ими технологический прогресс развивается и не утрачен.   
  Одиннадцатая ежегодная технологическая выставка Digitec Expo стартовала в Ереване 2-го октября. Около 170 технологических компаний из Армении, России, Украины, Белоруссии, Тайваня, Китая, Ирана и других стран в течение трех дней покажут посетителям технологические новинки, инновационные разработки, новые приложения, технику, роботов и компьютерные игры.   
  Сфера высоких технологий и телекоммуникаций является самой многообещающей и активно развивающейся отраслью, которая не только развивается самостоятельно, но и дает толчок остальным сферам, выступая как площадка для высококвалифицированной рабочей силы. И как отметили организаторы, при помощи выставки дети увидят будущее, молодежь сможет воспользоваться технологиями, а взрослое поколение будет уверено, что достигнутый ими технологический прогресс развивается и не утрачен.   
  Робототехника – сфера крайне сложная и бурно развивающаяся. Особенно это касается использования инновационных технологий в крупных производствах. Однако небольшой армянской компании RAFA Solutions не только удалось занять довольно хорошие позиции в сфере инновационного станкостроительства, но и найти зарубежных партнеров и рынки сбыта.   
  Рафаэль Касабян один из основателей компании, начавшей свой путь в 2012 году. На сегодняшний день RAFA Solutions предлагает три направления сотрудничества – разработка и автоматизация станков, разработка специальных учебных стендов для той же сферы и создание различных программ, которые используются программистами для разработки собственных решений.   
  На выставке компанией был представлен конвейер, разработанный специально для одного из вьетнамских институтов, который обучает студентов конвейерной автоматизации при помощи управляющих робототехнических манипуляторов.  
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                            <updated>2015-10-02T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">RAFA’s Pipeline Monitoring System is Featured in “Control, Drives &amp; Automatio...</title>
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                                            RAFA Solutions’ Pipeline Monitoring System was featured in UK magazine “Control, Drives &amp; Automation” (CDA). The magazine provides a new read for UK decision makers, buyers, and specifiers who are looking for products, solutions, technical and best practice advice in the areas...
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                  RAFA Solutions’&amp;nbsp;  Pipeline&amp;nbsp;Monitoring System  &amp;nbsp;was featured in UK magazine “  Control, Drives &amp;amp; Automation  ” (CDA). The magazine provides a new read for UK decision makers, buyers, and specifiers who are looking for products, solutions, technical and best practice advice in the areas of Motion Engineering, Power Transmission and Automation and a new route to market for manufacturers and suppliers.  
  Written with the engineer in mind, CDA delivers a wealth of news, comment, applications, opinions and features in a stimulating and compelling and informative format.  
  The article&amp;nbsp;talks about the latest solutions for the Oil and Gas industry. The article mentions that “ Companies in the global energy industry are under intense pressure. The exponential growth of power demand must always be met. Compliance with increasingly stringent health, safety, and environmental regulations is mandatory. New facilities must be brought online quickly, an aging infrastructure must be upgraded – all with minimal service interruptions. ”  
  The Pipeline Monitoring System is developed for the inspection and monitoring of oil pipelines without stopping the pipe’s flow of product.&amp;nbsp;The method used for the solution was magnetic flux leakage (MFL). MFL allows  detecting  metal loss due to corrosion, gouging and other defects.  
  The system includes a combination of hardware and software that allows for the defects of oil pipelines to be determined and located by processing data acquired from Hall (MFL) sensors. The hardware used for data acquisition is the NI Compact RIO, and the software is based on NI LabVIEW programming environment.  
  Read the full article&amp;nbsp;in the&amp;nbsp; CDA magazine .  
  Read about the monitoring system, from the&amp;nbsp; system’s page .  
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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.   
 
 
  Control, Drives &amp;amp; Automation   Controls, Drives &amp;amp; Automation is the latest publication to be launched by Western Business Publishing. The magazine provides a new read for UK decision makers, buyers and specifiers who are looking for products, solutions, technical and best practice advice in the areas of Motion Engineering, Power Transmission and Automation and a new route to market for manufacturers &amp;amp; suppliers. Learn more about the magazine at&amp;nbsp; here.   
 
 
  Trademarks   Control, Drives &amp;amp; Automation and www.controlsdrivesautomation.com are trademarks of Control, Drives &amp;amp; Automation. 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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