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December 2008 |
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| Featured Articles |
Economics of Fault-Tolerant Fieldbus Wiring
Control Engineering, November 2008
By Mike O'Neill, MooreHawke
Careful and clever analysis of fieldbus segments can yield fault tolerance where it's needed most without adding hardware costs over less effective strategies.
Total Insight Total Control
Industrial Automation Asia, September 2008
By Arasu Thanigai and Andreas Hennecke, Pepperl+Fuchs
Installing an Advanced Diagnostics system for an existing fieldbus infrastructure presents a cost benefit to a process plant.
Decode your Digital Future
Chemical Processing, September 2008
By Ian Verhappen, MTL Instruments
Justifying an expenditure can be challenging — especially when you want to introduce a new technology to your operation such as one of the fieldbuses that form the basis for the digital plants of the future. So, here, we’ll look at the advantages and savings that you realistically can expect with such a fieldbus.
Fieldbus Goes Nuclear
Control, October 2008
By David W. Spitzer
Fieldbus instruments could be used in nuclear applications with appropriate qualification and testing.
Fieldbus in focus: Understanding network similarities, differences
Plant Engineering, September 2008
By Jack Smith
Regardless of whether a manufacturer is a factory automation user or a process automation user, networks and buses must be able to withstand potentially harsh environments and must prioritize network availability and data integrity to support the manufacturing operations they control.
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GE Fanuc adds BIM Profibus interface to 8000 Process I/O
Profibus Bus Interface Module (BIM) connects a Profibus-DP master with up to 32 8000 Process I/O modules and allows transfer of HART data.
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Advantech 17" Color TFT LCD Flat Panel Monitor
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| White Papers |
Interactive signal isolation whitepaper
By Moore Industries
Whitepaper has information on signal isolation and conversion, the instrument selection process, HART and applications, and is interactive.
Industrial Ethernet…more than just another fieldbus system
By WAGO
With industrial protocols like Modbus/TCP, EtherNet/IP, and PROFInet process data is sent over standard, off-the-shelf Ethernet hardware. No longer are users forced to buy proprietary fieldbus components from a handful of vendors.
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| Resources & Literature |
Pepperl+Fuchs introduces FieldConnex Cordset configurator
Online configuration tool allows users to design FieldConnex fieldbus Type A/ER cordset and extension cables in 10 easy steps
Fieldbus Foundation publishes SIF white paper
Paper describes the implications of FOUNDATION SIF (FF-SIF) technology for the global plant safety system market and end users.
IXXAT offers free Device Description Explorer for CANopen and POWERLINK
Tool enables user to inspect CANopen and POWERLINK device description files conforming to the CiA 306 and CiA 311
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| Application Stories |
INEOS ChlorVinyls uses Emerson PlantWeb and FOUNDATION fieldbus
INEOS ChlorVinyls improved its liquid chlorine manufacturing processes and operations by implementing PlantWeb digital plant architecture with FOUNDATION fieldbus technology.
Total Insight Total Control
Industrial Automation Asia, October 2008
By Arasu Thanigai and Andreas Hennecke, Pepperl+Fuchs
Installing an Advanced Diagnostics system for an existing fieldbus infrastructure presents a cost benefit to a process plant.
Husky standardizes on Softing's Electrical Tester for PROFIBUS
Husky is employing PROFIBUS technology in its high-tech injection molding machines.
Communicating from the HART
By Adrienne Lutovsky, ProSoft Technology
Valspar, a paint and coatings company, installed Micro Motion flow meters, a Rockwell Automation ControlLogix PAC, and ProSoft Technology’s EtherNet/IP-to-HART multi-drop communication gateway to connect everything.
Legacy Building Automation Integration
By Advantech
The S4 Group, a building automation software company, used a BACnet-N2 Router to bring information from electric power monitoring meters, building and network infrastructure equipment, and other devices into legacy Johnson Controls Metasys building automation systems.
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| Featured Training |
WAGO adds three E-Learning modules
New courses cover terminal blocks, HART and dc drives.
IDC Technologies offers advanced diploma in electrical engineering
Completed over 18-months part time, it involves weekly live, interactive webcasts with a senior instructor plus weekly coursework and simulations.
Emerson announces online video learning for process automation
Online Video Center delivers concise technology, application and industry information in the 3- to 5-minute YouTube format. Topics cover measurement, analytical, control systems, wireless, safety and asset reliability.
LONMARK offers professional certification training program
The 1-day onsite training program is a preparatory course for professionals wishing to become LONMARK certified.
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| Company & Organizational News |
PDVSA Petropiar receives HART Plant of the Year award
PDVSA Petropiar oil refinery uses Emerson's AMS Suite and HART field instruments to enable predictive diagnostic benefits.
Omron adopts EtherCAT for its Motion Bus System
Omron intends to develop EtherCAT-based servo motors and inverters as well as motion controllers by summer 2009.
LonWorks networking becomes ISO/IEC standard
ISO and IEC have formally approved LONWORKS control networking technology as ISO/IEC 14908, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.
ODVA publishes new specifications for CIP networks
Additions include requirements to support CIP Safety on SERCOS III and redundant media in EtherNet/IP systems for real-time control systems.
Fieldbus Foundation And ISA to work on wireless
As part of the wireless backhaul network initiative, the Fieldbus Foundation and ISA will develop a standard to interface between different technologies.
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exiderdome -- A spectacular multimedia traveling expo
Multiple Cities Through May 2009
Join Siemens in this exciting, hands-on environment where you will experience and learn more about vital, innovative technologies and strategies from around the world that will transform the way you do business.
ARC's Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing Forum
Orlando, February 2-5, 2009
Sustainable manufacturing is a socially, environmentally, and resource-responsible approach to manufacturing. ARC's Forum defines sustainability in terms that are actionable for a manufacturing business. Learn the strategies, technologies, and practices to address your company’s challenges for sustainability.
Industrial Automation & Control World Expo 2009
February 12-16, 2009 Mumbai, India
The event will be concurrently held with CHEMTECH + Polymertech World Expo 2009 & Pharma + Biotech + WaterEx World Expo 2009.
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