Industrial measurement and automation systems for Latin America and Caribbean
iba LAT is the Latin American and Caribbean arm of a German industrial automation company founded in 1984. The engineering-heavy org (9 of 14 staff) focuses on firmware, embedded systems, and data acquisition—with active work across fieldbus protocols (PROFINET, EtherCAT, PROFIBUS), real-time measurement, and condition monitoring. The stack (Linux, ARM, .NET, C++, Kubernetes, OPC UA) reflects a mix of legacy industrial automation and modern cloud-native tooling, suggesting effort to modernize data pipelines while supporting entrenched industrial protocols.
iba LAT operates as the regional sales, technical support, training, and warranty hub for iba Group across Latin America and the Caribbean, headquartered in Panama. The parent company specializes in measurement systems and automation components for industrial plants and test benches—hardware and software for capturing and analyzing process and quality data across manufacturing sectors. The Panama office manages 14 staff focused on product development, firmware engineering, and field support. Current engineering roadmap emphasizes fieldbus integration, embedded firmware for hardware platforms, data acquisition pipelines, and condition-monitoring features.
Core stack: Linux, ARM, .NET, C++, SQL Server, Angular, Node.js, Kubernetes. Fieldbus protocols: PROFINET, EtherCAT, PROFIBUS, OPC UA. Development tools: Visual Studio, VS Code, Git, JetBrains Rider. Also LangGraph, Figma, Python.
Firmware for fieldbus and Ethernet communication, hardware automation and testing, condition monitoring, fast measurement data acquisition and visualization, C# test tools, novel software projects, and hardware circuit design.
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