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July 2008 |
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| Featured Articles |
HART monitors extract data from smart instruments
Plant Engineering, May 2008
By Greg Feliks, Moore Industries
A simple and cost effective solution for gathering HART information is to use a HART interface device. Fortunately, HART interface devices, available from several manufacturers, make acquiring HART data a fairly simple proposition. This HART data is then made available to the control system via analog signals, discrete outputs or serial communications.
Installing Fieldbus: Some practical advice, Part 2
Process Industry Informer, April 2008
By Mike O’Neill, MooreHawke Div of Moore Industries
Part 2 covers installing redundant systems, working in hazardous areas, and removing and replacing instruments. Many of the installation headaches discussed in this two-part article can be minimized through careful selection of fieldbus equipment at the beginning of the project.
Instrinsic Safety Obsolete Yet?
Control, March 2008
By John Rezabek
The emergence of digitally integrated instruments, stricter environmental regulations and wireless access to diagnostics are converging to make “live maintenance in normally hazardous atmospheres” a rare occurrence. Shouldn’t end users ponder whether the value of an IS installation is still worth the added complexity, effort and expense?
Make the most of WirelessHART
Chemical Processing, May 2008
By Gareth Johnston and Alan Munns, ABB
HART 7 gives plants a real incentive to consider wireless. Authors examine the advantages and typical applications of a wireless instrument network, whether now is the right time to consider a wireless project, and how a WirelessHART instrument network works.
Do You Really Need that Separate Safety Network?
Automation World, May 2008
By James R. Koelsch
Why install the latest generation of safety networks? Most people would put the money saved on less wiring at the top of their list of answers.
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| Resources & Literature |
Contemporary Controls publishes BACnet brochure
The four-color brochure discusses the BAS Remote family of remote I/O products that allow expansion of BACnet systems in the field.
TURCK upgrades free I/Oassistant configuration software
I/Oassistant is used as a configuration tool when designing TURCK’s BL20 in the panel and BL67 on the machine nodes. It uses FDT/DTM, and will generate a fieldbus I/O map.
Connect, Protect, Power and Terminate
By MooreHawke
Data sheet describes the company's full line of FOUNDATION Fieldbus and PROFIBUS PA Device Couplers and Power Supplies.
AirSprite introduces WirelessHART OEM program
AccelerATE gives HART field device manufacturers a simple, quick, and low cost path to enable product lines with the WirelessHART specification.
Moore Industries announces SNAP custom signal interfaces -
SNAP provides customers with customized solutions to meet unusual signal interface needs in industrial process control, systems integration and factory automation applications.
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| | Application Stories |
Securing Redundant Communications between an ESD and a Honeywell DCS
By Eric Byres, Tofino
Describes how a petroleum refinery used the Tofino Industrial Security Solution and Modbus to provide secure communications between a Triconex Emergency Shutdown (ESD) system and a Honeywell Experion process control system. It also explains the use of the Tofino system in redundant networks, techniques for grouping large numbers of identical devices in “networks” and the management of nuisance alarms generated by unwanted multicast traffic.
Adroit heads south to manage water system
Control Engineering Europe, June 2008
The six major pump stations at the Adroit SCADA system have PLC controlled MC panels. The telemetry RTU is connected to the PLC via a serial interface using Modbus protocol and provides the ability to monitor all the inputs as well as providing the facility for remote modifications of certain measuring and controlling parameters within the PLC.
Emerson automates world's largest pulp mill
The PlantWeb solution includes DeltaV, 3300 FOUNDATION fieldbus, Profibus DP and DeviceNet devices, MCCs, PLCs, Modbus, Fisher valves with Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controllers, and AMS Suite.
Hot cutover boosts control system migration
Chemical Processing, May 2008
By Eric Schnipke, Ineos Nitriles
Component failures in a 1980s–1990s-era DCS at Ineos Nitriles’ Lima, Ohio, complex were jeopardizing production of acrylonitrile. Ineos upgraded to a DeltaV system from Emerson in a “hot cutover,” and added Modbus and HART.
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| Featured Training |
Emerson’s PlantWeb University Online Learning Center
Free web-based training includes more than 40 brief, practical courses on new automation technologies and strategies. Topics include implementing fieldbus, wireless technology, safety instrumented systems, streamlining maintenance, improving equipment effectiveness, and enhancing plant efficiency.
Fieldbus training in South Africa
July 2008 Johannesburg, South Africa
The Fieldbus Foundation Southern African Marketing Committee will hold its first fieldbus training course during the second week of July 2008.
ODVA announces industrial Ethernet seminars
One-day seminars present details of CIP and EtherNet/IP, extensions for safety and motion, the ability to integrate Modbus devices, and a primer on industrial Ethernet.
Coastal offers HART and fieldbus training
Smart Digital Instrumentation series helps employees understand HART protocol, the applications and day-to-day use of HART Smart field devices, and the FOUNDATION fieldbus communication model.
FDT Technical Seminars
Free FDT technical seminars will be held in Wilmington, Delaware; Calgary, Alberta; Houston, TX ; and Greenville, SC.
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Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | Company & Organizational News |
ISA forms WirelessHART Convergence Subcommittee
The subcommittee will compare the technology within the ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards, with an ultimate goal of merging the best of both standards.
Kepware’s KEPServerEX passes OPC Certification
KEPServerEX communications solution has passed the latest OPC certifications tests administered by the OPC Foundation independent test laboratory.
Belimo and Tridium to jointly develop wireless VAV controller
Using Tridium’s Sedona Framework, Belimo will build a Variable Air Volume controller that is BACnet compliant and wireless over a 802.15.4 mesh network.
Fieldbus Foundation demonstrates SIF Technology in Amsterdam
Held at the Shell Global Solutions technology center in Amsterdam, the SIF demo attracted process automation end users and equipment suppliers from around the world.
HART companies push WirelessHART
Sean Keeping of ABB, Mark Schumacher of Emerson, Frank Hils of
Endress+Hauser amd Hans-Georg Kumpfmueller of Siemens offer their views of WirelessHART.
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| Application News |
Emerson to automate Thai petrochemical plant
Equipment includes PlantWeb, FOUNDATION fieldbus, microprocessor-based field instruments, valves, digital systems, and software.
Siemens to supply PCS 7 to Biofine Renewables
The control system includes an HMI and a PROFIBUS fieldbus network to communicate to Siemens variable frequency drives and I/O modules.
Emerson to automate two new glass plants in China
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, DeltaV, intelligent field devices, and Foundation Fieldbus at Zhejiang Changxing glass plants in the Zhejiang Province.
Honeywell to install Experion at steel plant in Finland
Honeywell announced a $2 million contract to implement its Experion Process Knowledge System with Profibus at a stainless steel plant operated by Outokumpu.
ABB to supply System 800xA for Australian waste processing plant
ABB will supply the complete hardware, engineering and commissioning of the control system, as well as drives, analyzers, instruments and Profibus field devices.
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| Featured Events |
2008 Siemens Automation Summit
July 23 -25, 2008 Chicago, IL
The 2008 Siemens Automation Summit has presentations from industry experts and analysts, and customer case histories which detail the benefits of Siemens products.
Instrumentation Scotland
September 3-4, 2008 Aberdeen, Scotland
This bienniel event brings together the many companies who supply products and services specific to the offshore industry in addition to others representing processing, power generation, paper, distilling, water and waste, and marine engineering in north east Scotland.
Automation 2008
September 25-28, 2008 Mumbai, India
India's Automation Exhibition showcases new innovations & solutions for Refining, Petrochemicals, chemicals, Polyester, Power, Life Sciences, Food & Pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas businesses, Steel and Mining and other process industries, Terminal automation, Tank farm automation, and Retail Outlet Automation.
ISA Expo
October 14-16, 2008 Houston, Texas
Organized around six core automation and control themes, ISA EXPO 2007 provides attendees a content-rich environment that offers unlimited opportunity for exploration of key technologies, professional growth, and interaction with like minded professionals.
Brazil Automation
November 17-19, 2008 Sao Paulo, Brazil
Brazil Automation is the largest event of Instrumentation, Systems and Automation in Latin America and one of the most important in the world. Besides presenting technology advances and new products and services, the event provides extensive integration among users, manufacturers, researchers, students, service providers and other professionals in the industry.
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