Aplicaciones Industriales Avanzadas (AIA-Automation) has been serving the industry since 1986. The company's mission is to provide worldwide automation services to the industry. AIA is committed to excellence. Clients can count on the extensive experience of AIA's engineers as well as their deep academic knowledge in advanced control strategies and implementation. AIA as an automation company with strong support in its software development division (SDD). The SSD uses C++ or Visual Basic tools to develop special applications which are far beyond the capabilities of the typical programming tools for PLCs like ladder logic. Thanks to these capabilities, AIA has been able to undertake projects that normally are not executed by most of their competitors like the design and development of a turnkey MES (manufacturing execution system) using Microsoft SQL server and Visual Basic developed for Fibras Químicas, S.A. in 1997, or the design and development of a standard communication protocol to manipulate various XRF (X-ray flouresent spectrometer) systems, made for CEMEX in 2000. The main platforms of automatic control implementation used by AIA are PLCs and DCS. AIA has developed very deep knowledge in regulatory control implementation strategies, the use of HMIs of different brands to implement operator plant view interfaces, software development for communication drivers, MES software development, equipment procurement, installation supervision, calibration, commissioning, training, and start-up.