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		HMS connects Chinese subway line - 04/25/12 Guangzhou Metro Line in China connected various monitoring equipment to ControlNet using solutions from Rockwell Automation and the Anybus Communicator from HMS Industrial Networks.

		A Charming New Facility - 04/21/12 Control, April 2012 By Bryan Beyer, Southern States Chemical Southern States installed HART communications, remote terminal displays, flow elements, DeviceNet networking and a DeltaV automation system from Emerson to control an acid plant.

		Ethernet powers fast return for car maker - 04/21/12 Industrial Ethernet Book, April 2012 By Jörg Lochmüller and Andreas Mühlthaler, BMW Production in the body-inwhite section of the BMWS’s Dingolfing plant has used Profinet IO (PN IO) throughout the entire welding cell involved in the manufacture of BMW 7 series cars.

		Decentralised pneumatics system offers production cost savings - 03/10/12 Control Engineering Europe, March 2012 The use of Rexroth pneumatic valves with integrated Profibus helpd ice-cream manufacturer GB as improving its process reliability. Glace achieved significant savings in materials, energy, installation and labour costs as well.

		Fromagerie Bel Achieves Standardisation Across Process Valves - 03/10/12 Process & Control Today, February 2012 Control of the milk flow management system is provided by 180 fieldbus controlled valves, all of which are equipped with BÜRKERT 8681 series universal control heads.


		Honeywell to modernize Colombian printing facility - 02/28/12 Honeywell will upgrade the plant to Profibus, and update the existing controllers on El Tiempo’s Goss Newsliner and Universal press lines.

		Motion control synchronization - 02/17/12 Control Engineering, February 2012 By Bob Davis and Craig Nelson Sunnen uses Profibus and Siemens PLCs, HMIs, software, drives and servomotors in its bore sizing and finishing systems.

		Omron automation the best thing for sliced bread - 02/17/12 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, February 2012 Ibonhart, a UK manufacturer of automatic bread slicing and packaging equipment, updated the control system for its IB360 bagging machine. It used an Omron CP1L-M PLC, G9SA safety relays, E3ZM photoelectric sensors and Modbus.

		PXI-based test platform cuts costs - 02/15/12 Control Engineering Europe, February 2012 By Woody Beckford, et al, Analog Devices Using PXI and LabVIEW allowed Analog Devices to test its MEMS devices at a fraction of the cost, weight, power consumption, and footprint of its previous ATE system.

		Coca-Cola Hellenic reduces energy consumption by 75% - 02/15/12 What’s New in Process Technology, February 2012 By SEW-Eurodrive Coke cut costs in Vienna by replacing 39 gearmotors with equipment from SEW, and replacing hardwired connections with Profibus.

		HART Communication proves valuable on a major project - 01/29/12 Control Engineering, January 2012 The 2011 HART Plant of the Year is Shell’s Scotford Upgrader, recognized after programming and commissioning 1,500 devices from Rosemount, E+H, Fisher, Krohne, K-Tek, Magnetrol, Metso, and Ohmart Vega.

		SIPOS fieldbus solution supports RWE scheme - 01/11/12 Process & Control Engineering, January 2012 SIPOS managed the DCS and Profibus DP fieldbus commissioning of over 2,000 actuators at the Neurath power plant in Germany.

		Metso controls renewable diesel plant - 12/19/11 Metso supplied two DNA automation systems with HART for the Neste Oil renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

		Automation upgrade at Sebokeng wastewater plant - 10/17/11 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, October 2011 The plant installed a new DCS, PLCs, Profibus network, Wonderware SCADA system, and Endress+Hauser flow meters, analyzers and level transmitters.

		Refining Vegetable Oils - 10/07/11 Manual control systems at a Southeast Asia fats and oil producer are being re-vamped with automation systems based on PROFIBUS and PROFINET, leading to ROIs measured in months.

		Application of HOLLiAS MACS System in GuiZhou Qianbei Power - 09/05/11 By Hollysys Hollysys installed a HOLLiAS-MACS DCS with Profibus DP to control Units 3 and 4 of the GuiZhou Qianbei 300MW Power Plant.

		Refinery Benefits from Smart Devices - 07/23/11 Automation World, July 2011 Beginning in 2002, engineers at the MOL Danube Refinery near Budapest, Hungary made the strategic decision to install HART-enabled devices throughout their operation. The results have been award-winning, and extremely profitable.

		Monitoring disparate equipment not designed for fieldbus use - 06/12/11 Control Engineering Europe, June 2011 Genzyme used about 30 HMS Anybus Communicator gateways to enable consistent SCADA management across a variety of mixed laboratory equipment, which was not initially designed to communicate with fieldbuses.

		Networks diagnostics made easy - Monitoring PROFINET and PROFIBUS Networks - 05/02/11 Automation.com, May 2011 By Dr. Christine Eckert SZST Salzgitter Service und Technik GmbH thoroughly tested Trebing + Himstedt’s TH SCOPE unified diagnostics solution at a SIL-based installation in a steel mill.

		Genzyme monitors 50,000 SCADA points with Anybus - 03/26/11 Process and Control Today, March 2011 Genzyme uses thirty HMS Anybus Communicator gateways to enable consistent SCADA management across all the devices in use at its polyclonal antibody production site in Lyon, UK.

		Tank measurements shared with production planning department - 03/24/11 Control Engineering Europe, March 2011 John Crabbie & Co installed nine new storage tanks with VEGAPULS plics-plus radar level sensors. The sensors are connected using HART multi-drop communications, allowing tank inventory data to be shared via the company LAN (Local Area Network).

		Airfield Lights Using Wireless POINT I/O and Mobile Operator Interfaces At the heart of the lighting systems are ControlLogix PACs utilizing Ethernet/IP wireless communications modules. Airfield lighting circuit status is served to a FactoryTalk SCADA operator console located in the Air Traffic Control Tower.

		Absolute positioning on a budget - 03/06/11 When the Rock-Tenn paperboard mill in Aurora IL wanted to automate the positioning and tensioning of the belts on its paperboard dryer conveyor system, it took an innovative combination of high-end, absolute encoders and basic, low-end control and drive technology to get the job done.

		One man’s waste is another man’s energy - 03/06/11 Granger Electric operates a landfill-gas-to-energy program that extracts methane from decomposing waste and supplies it to customers as an alternative "greenhouse" fuel. This story highlights the communication system used between the control center and customers’ sites, to remotely access and monitor energy consumption.

		Genzyme monitors 50,000 SCADA points with HMS Anybus Communicator - 03/02/11 Using about 30 HMS Anybus gateways, Genzyme converts serial and ASCII data from centrifuges, pH-meters and balances and sends it over Ethernet or Profibus to the central SCADA.

		Distributed I/O and Remote I/O Solution Improves Performance and Reliability of Water Treatment Plant - 02/17/11 By Moore Industries February 17, 2011 - The Onondaga County Water Authority in NY modernized its control system with a Distributed I/O and Remote I/O solution. This reduced wiring costs for field instrumentation while improving operational readiness and reliability.

		Audi Plant Claims Technological Lead with PROFINET - 02/14/11 Thanks to a large-scale PROFINET network the new Audi A1 manufacturing line at Brussels in Belgium is the newest and most modern Audi plant in Europe.

		Technologies cooperate to control critical mixing operation - 02/07/11 Control Engineering, January 2011 By Adrienne Lutovsky and Danetta Bramhall, ProSoft Technology Mixing ablative coating for space shuttle rocket boosters requires very high levels of precision and repeatability. NASA uses PLCs, PACs, and Modbus communications.

		PICC tames Tooheys can line - 01/16/11 Process & Control Engineering, January 2011 Toohey's took the decision to standardise on Profibus for its brewing and packaging plant in New South Wales. But poor Profibus wiring and incorrect network implementation nearly derailed the can line.

		WirelessHART Successfully Handles Control - 01/16/11 Chemical Processing, January 2011 By Frank Seibert, UT, and Terry Blevins, Emerson Comparable control performance versus wired, as measured by IAE, was achieved for both pressure control and steam flow control using WirelessHART measurements with the PID modified for wireless communication.

		Continuous improvements yield high returns - 12/12/10 InTech, December 2010 By Roberto Anibal Gorbarán A comprehensive asset management program implemented at the Petrobras Zarate polystyrene manufacturing plant in Argentina on 1,000 intelligent FOUNDATION fieldbus and HART field devices has enabled continued productivity gains and greater profitability.

		Wireless helps Plains Exploration & Production (PXP) - 12/12/10 Control Engineering, November 2010 PXP transformed its steam injection metering and data acquisition systems into a highly sophisticated, automated process comprised of a large network of WirelessHART transmitters and industrial broadband radios.

		Wireless HART technology helps boost production and cuts - 12/12/10 Control Engineering Europe, November 2010 Smart Wireless technology, based on the WirelessHART (IEC 62591) standard, is enabling Tecpetrol to boost production, while reducing maintenance and operations costs at natural gas compression and delivery facilities in Argentina.

		Emerson Wireless technology helps boost production in Argentina - 11/22/10 Data from Rosemount wireless transmitters helps Tecpetrol increase production by $4 million while reducing maintenance costs by 62% and supervisory control costs by 35%.

		Emerson automates Varandey oil export terminal in Russia - 11/10/10 Emerson supplied DeltaV control systems, AMS software, Rosemount instrumentation and Fisher control valves, communicating via HART, Modbus and FOUNDATION fieldbus protocols.

		Whitecourt receives superior drinking water - 10/13/10 InTech, October 2010 By Wally Ingham, Stantec Consulting The Town of Whitecourt’s Water Treatment Plant in Alberta, Canada, was updated with a ControLogix PLC, DeviceNet, a variable speed pump, MCC, and Rosemount flow, level and pressure instrumentation.

		Automation Strengthens Supply Chain - 10/13/10 Control Engineering, September 2010 Personal wash producer PZ Cussons in the UK built a fully-automated plant from the ground up, using control equipment engineered and supplied by Rockwell Automation, along with instruments and fieldbus networks designed and commissioned by Endress+Hauser.

		Emerson automates separations research facility - 09/12/10 The pilot plant uses DeltaV S-series controllers with Electronic Marshalling, HART I/O, Smart Wireless communications, sensors and transmitters, digital control valves, and Coriolis meters.

		Harsh environment does not beat CC-Link communications - 09/12/10 Process and Control Today, September 2010 Enkei America, a die casting company, ran a year long trial on CC-Link communications for machine control in a desperately harsh environment and experienced no problems whatsoever.

		Open communications ensure pharmaceutical excellence - 09/12/10 Process and Control Today, September 2010 Mantecorp , Brazil’s most modern pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, achieves world class productivity and quality through the extensive use of CC-Link open communications for its automation systems.

		Flying down in Rio - 08/23/10 Process and Control Today, August 2010 A pair of prestigious apartment blocks in downtown Rio de Janiero use bespoke building automation systems based on CC-Link, the fieldbus communications systems originally designed for industrial automation, to create a relaxed and charming living environment within this busy, bustling city.

		ABB controls silicon production line at plant in Norway - 07/27/10 The System 800xA solution includes operator workplaces, five AC 800M controllers, and approximately 3000 I/O, and uses Foundation Fieldbus to communicate with the various types of process equipment.

		DC drives improve productivity of steel mill - 07/20/10 Kocaer Haddecilik in Turkey installed DC drives, and a SCADA system, complete with Profibus, Ethernet and fibre-optic networking.

		Technology with Added Value - 07/10/10 Control Engineering Europe, June 2010 By Jane Goh, Changi Water Reclamation Plant The Changi Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore is one of the biggest Profibus installations in the world, with 7,000 Profibus DP and 2,500 Profibus PA instruments. They rely on FDT technology for device integration.

		Commissioning like a pro - 07/10/10 Control Engineering Europe, June 2010 By Mike Babb Foundation fieldbus Instrumentation from Endress+Hauser was configured with DTMs to monitor gas burners at the ADA Carbon Solutions plant in Coushatta, Louisiana.

		Schneider Electric PLC controls Waste Management System - 07/10/10 Process & Control Today, June 2010 The Cawleys plant in Luton, UK, uses a M340 PLC to control 80 Tesys Model U direct on-line integrated motor starters, 18 ATV71 variable speed drives and four racks of Advantys fieldbus I/O.

		Upgrade at Pilsner brewery - 06/12/10 Control Engineering Europe, June 2010 Czech beer Pilsner Urquell updated its existing SIEMENS S5 to an S7 system with wireless and Profinet communications, and eliminated 14 PLCs in the process.

		Printing Press builder solves Profibus communication problem - 05/30/10 The signal quality on the PROFIBUS network was insufficient to sustain a robust communication link. Lowering the baud rate to 1.5 MBit/s immediately fixed the signal quality level on the affected machines.

		Smart Wireless improves furnace operations at Ternium Siderar - 05/27/10 Emerson's Smart Wireless network is helping deliver improved furnace operation and safety at Ternium Siderar’s steelmaking facility in San Nicolás Argentina.

		WirelessHART Keeps Equipment Connected to the DCS - 05/19/10 Control Design, May 2010 By Scott Broadley, Broadley-James When a skid is portable and routinely moved within the plant, even a few pluggable connections to the DCS can become a maintenance issue. WirelessHART field devices solves this since the connection to the DCS is independent of its physical location.

		WirelessHART Network monitors Mining Operation’s Movable Leach Fields - 05/13/10 The system uses 44 Endress+Hauser Promag 53P flowmeters and Cerabar WirelessHART pressure transmitters to monitor flow and pressure in leach fields that are regularly relocated, and use movable, temporary piping.

		PROFIBUS solution manages a helium-cooling system - 04/21/10 By Softing Softing Profibus equipment controls DESY, Germany’s largest helium cooling system. Profibus protocol software provided the foundation for achieving redundancy, with Profibus guaranteeing an instantaneous and bump-less switchover of all connected I/O devices.

		Diversity linked on a common platform - 04/08/10 Control Engineering, April 2010 By Christine Eckert, FDT Group Device integration at the world’s largest wastewater treatment plant, the Changi Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore, links multiple manufacturers on common fieldbus and management networks.

		CNC machine gets integrated drive system - 04/08/10 Control Engineering, April 2010 Advanced Industrial Machinery redesigned its stone-cutting saw/waterjet system using an IndraMotion MTX CNC machine control platform, Profibus remote I/O, and IndraDrive Mi integrated motor and drive system, all from Bosch Rexroth.

		Rexroth Brings Servo Precision to Web Converting Machine By Rexroth A Rexroth SYNAX 200 control system, servo drives and SERCOS control Summit Machine’s web converter, a 20-axis converting machine that takes material compounds and precisely forms them against a substrate to create the final product.

		The Advanced Digital Fieldbus Option for Nuclear Plants - 02/26/10 Power, February 2010 By Jack Y. Zhao, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Digital fieldbus technologies, including Foundation fieldbus and Profibus, are increasingly being used with success in the nuclear and fossil fuel power industries. This article compares a conventional control system with a Foundation fieldbus – based digital control system used in a typical circulating water system in a nuclear power plant.

		Farmers profit by controlling biogas - 02/19/10 Process and Control Today, February 2010 CC-Link fieldbus control is helping farmers extract valuable biogas from slurry to fuel cogeneration plants. The controller is a MELSEC FX3U PLC which communicates with the system’s various automation components via a CC-Link master module and standard serial ports.

		Wireless boosts operational efficiency at brewery - 02/19/10 Process and Control Today, January 2010 Plzeòský Prazdroj, the leading brewery in central Europe, upgraded from an existing Siemens S5 control system on its kegging line to the Siemens S7 system, incorporating ProfiNet wireless communication.

		The Worlds Largest Foundation Fieldbus Project - 02/19/10 Control, February 2010 By B. R. Mehta, et al The Jamnagar Export Refinery Project greenfield refinery in India, with 20,000+ Foundation fieldbus tags, is one of the world's largest FF sites. Equipment was supplied by Invensys and MTL.

		Wireless network automates data collection at Petrobras - 02/10/10 Emerson’s WirelessHART network delivers real-time compressor data while saving $200,000 installed cost and overcoming difficult conditions for wired approach

		Emerson automates ethanol plant in Sweden - 01/27/10 A pilot ethanol processing plant built by Chematur Engineering uses Emerson's DeltaV control system with WirelessHART, Wi-Fi, FOUNDATION fieldbus, AMS, and Rosemount wireless pressure and temperature transmitters.

		Cellulosics Conversion Gets a Boost - 01/27/10 Chemical Processing, January 2010 By Rich Chmielewski, Siemens Industry Biofine Renewables installed a Siemens Simatic PCS 7 process control system with redundant dual-screen operator stations communicating over industrial ethernet, a Profibus fieldbus network, and 20 Siemens Micromaster variable frequency drives (1 hp to 5 hp) controlling agitators and pumps.

		Traffic signs in Norway use Profibus - 01/26/10 Scandisign, a supplier of LED-based traffic signs, used an Anybus-IC from HMS to connect to Profibus and then Ethernet/Modbus.

		Automation, motion control raise production for tea packaging machine - 12/18/09 Reliable Plant, December 2009 By Bosch Rexroth Teekanne, the market leader for tea in Germany today, fills 10 million tea and herb bags every day. Using Rexroth Indramotion motion control, Sercos III, and Safety on Board, the company can fill and produce bags at a rate of 400 per minute with thread and label, or with an outside paper protection.

		Wireless network improves carbon reactiviation process at Calgon - 12/15/09 WirelessHART network uses Rosemount wireless temperature transmitters attached to a rotating kiln to deliver continuous information for instant response to process changes, enabling better heat control.

		Smart automation helping to secure Sydney’s water future - 12/06/09 Process & Control Engineering, November 2009 Sydney Water’s new desalination plant at Kurnell uses Profibus technology along with 1,400 instruments from Endress+Hauser to measure water level, pressure, temperature, pH, ORP, turbidity, conductivity and the concentration of minerals such as nitrates.

		Armoring Up for Safety - 11/21/09 Control, November 2009 By Chris Williams Eastman Chemical uses FISCO and advanced diagnostics to implement intrinsically safe fieldbus in a hazardous and corrosive environment.

		Machine Builder Saves With AS-interface - 11/17/09 Automation World, November 2009 Automacad Concrete in Canada builds concrete splitters that once had more than 300 wires connected from the skid to the main control panel, leading to wire bundles that were cumbersome and unsightly. The wire bundle was replaced with AS-Interface from ifm efector.

		TRUNKGUARD Optimizes Fieldbus Installation at Ethanol Plant By Tim Wilson, Abengo Bioenergy, and Jeff Marsh, FeedForward Abengoa used a Yokogawa CENTUM CS3000 DCS, Foundation fieldbus for analog I/O, Profibus for motor control, and MooreHawk TRUNKGUARD device couplers to connect the FF and Profibus segments. The system had 72 fieldbus segments and 650 nodes.

		Wireless network boosts production at Samarco's Germano mine - 11/11/09 WirelessHART data fed directly into Emerson's DeltaV control system protects pumps and prevents process stoppages while realizing 35% savings in installed costs compared to wired network

		Moving On Up - 10/22/09 Control Engineering Asia, October 2009 By Bob Gill Increasingly frequent breakdowns and difficulties in sourcing spare parts for its ageing control system finally made this Thai cement producer decide to migrate to Siemens and its PCS 7 Cemat process control system, PLCs, Profibus DP, and remote I/O stations.

		What's Green and Safe and Makes Lots of Pulp? - 10/19/09 Control, October 2009 By Juan Jorge Caceres, et al, Celulosa Arauco Celulosa Arauco’s pulp mill in Nueva Aldea, Chile, is capable of producing 856,000 air-dried tons of kraft cellulose per year. Control is by Emerson's PlantWeb, DeltaV, Foundation fieldbus, Profibus, DeviceNet, and digital valve controllers.

		Vital Ingredients - 09/20/09 Control Engineering Asia, September 2009 Unilever Vietnam’s factory in Ho Chi Minh City makes shampoo. It uses the ISA S88 batch standard, Siemens PCS7 control system, and Simatic S7-400 PLCs linked via Profibus DP to eight ET 200 remote I/O modules.

		How Many More Months Will It Run? - 09/20/09 Chemical Processing, September 2009 By Seán Ottewell INEOS Chlor, Runcorn, UK, the largest chlor-alkali producer in Europe, uses Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture, HART communications, and AMS Suite for startup on a large chlorine compressor. Before plant startup, 40 inputs into the compressor must be calibrated and tested.

		Alstom: Ethernet for Plant Control System - 09/13/09 Control Engineering, September 2009 By Stéphane Potier and Emma Cameron, Alstom Power Alstom, a provider of energy management, power generation, and rail transport systems, uses Alspa ControPlant as its distributed control system (DCS). The incorporation of Modbus and Ethernet Powerlink into the DCS makes the network a central part of the control system.

		New production line in record time - 09/13/09 Control Engineering, September 2009 The Southland Tube mill in Birmingham, AL (USA) is an all-Siemens plant that uses PLCs, dc drives, motor starters, Profibus, WinCC software and Step 7 project management software. The line started up in only two weeks, and the second piece of steel tubing that came off the mill was sellable.

		Operating safely - 09/13/09 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, September 2009 Hirschmann installed fibre-optic fieldbus systems in oil production at two new oilfields 50 km southwest of Abu Dhabi. The process control units constructed by Honeywell provide a primary and a secondary Profibus DP interface with the remote I/O stations.

		A Thirst for Technology - 08/27/09 Control Engineering Asia, August 2009 By Bob Gill The brewery’s shift to advanced automation included implementing Profibus along with migrating from the legacy Simatic S5 PLC based system to one based on Simatic S7 PLCs and the Braumat process control system.

		CC-Link network supports SCADA system at pharmaceutical plant in Brazil - 08/25/09 A CC-Link open fieldbus network and Mitsubishi Electric controls now serve as the SCADA system for the Mantecorp pharmaceutical facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

		Emerson improves production efficiency for Pernod Ricard Nordic - 07/15/09 Emerson was responsible for the front-end engineering and design (FEED), and installation of PlantWeb, DeltaV, HART communications, AMS software and intelligent devices.

		FDT takes the ‘guesswork’ out of paper machine maintenance - 07/09/09 Control Engineering Europe, June 2009 By Sandra Gisy, Endress+Hauser, and Vagn Kudsk, Dalum Papirfabrik Implementing a condition-based monitoring system with FDT/DTM technology gave these Danish paper machine engineers information they never had before

		Brew-house implements Profibus system for plant communication - 07/09/09 Process & Control Engineering, July 2009 Coopers Brewery in Australia commissioned an entirely new brew house, using Profibus DP to link the PLCs and SCADA, Profibus PA for the measurement and control of level, temperature, flow, pressure and valves, and ASi bus for the digital I/O. Also installed were power meters, temperature, pressure and level transmitters and flow control valves.

		Orlando uses automation to improve wastewater operations Plant Engineering, May 2009 Orlando's three advanced wastewater treatment plants process more sewage and gray water than ever before. Standardized on the Siemens S7-300 programmable logic controller and Siemens PROFIBUS and Industrial Ethernet networks, the automation platform controls everything from the flow of electricity to the amount of reclaimed water being safely discharged from the plant.

		Improved Fieldbus Operations with Advanced Diagnostics Control, May 2009 By Chris Williams, Eastman Chemical Company The High-Power Trunk concept (HPT), together with FieldBarriers, provides a new approach to creating intrinsically safe fieldbus segments. The entire installation is continuously monitored by the Pepperl+Fuchs’ ADM integrated in the FieldConnex power hub.

		Reliable processes for biodiesel production Process and Control Today, April 2009 For the process automation system of its biodiesel plant in Schwedt, Germany, VERBIO decided to use a PROFIBUS fieldbus infrastructure. VERBIO decided to use the FieldConnex product range from Pepperl+Fuchs as the fieldbus interface technology throughout the plant.

		Bionic Tonic Transforms German Brewery Into Health Beverage Titan Control Design, April 2009 By Matthias Falk, Bionade Abfüll Bionade transformed Germany’s struggling Peter Brewery in Ostheim into a European powerhouse. Programmers, engineers, electricians and production managers purchased and blended used components including old PLCs, pasteurization equipment, material handling and unpacking equipment and a case washing system into one fieldbus-based system.

		Automated water treatment plants South African Instrumentation & Control, April 2009 Three plants in Egypt each have approximately 1200 I/O points. The process and system control uses Beckhoff PLCs, Profibus, PCs, control panels and soft PID controllers.

		A pipeline full of data—on a single wire Control Engineering Europe, March 2009 Facing tightening environmental and regulatory requirements, a municipal water jurisdiction in Canada designed a first-case leak detection and monitoring system. HART technology is key to cost-effectiveness.

		OPC and XML in Building Automation - 02/26/09 By Softing LOYTEC, an Austrian manufacturer, embedded the OPC XML/DA standard into L-OPC, one of its building automation products, using Softing’s OPC Easy Connect Suite. The L-OPC implements access to a user defined set of data objects through the use of Web services.

		HART-Enabled Plug-In Control System Migration By Invensys Process Systems Two companies--Dakota Gasification and Teck Cominco—upgraded their control systems to use HART communications. In both cases, the companies had HART instrumentation that had been installed years earlier, but were not using the HART data because their old control systems didn’t support it. IPS solved the problem.

		Out of sight, not out of reach By Softing Clariant, a plastics manufacturer in Gersthofen, Germany, used a Profibus Ethernet gateway and FDT to connect to HART devices in hazardous areas and won the HART plant of the year award.

		Siemens automates Renault diesel engine line - 01/22/09 Automation includes Siemens Sinumerik 840D powerline for the CNC control, 160 NC machines, 18 robots, Profibus, PLCs, HMIs and industrial PCs.

		INEOS ChlorVinyls uses Emerson PlantWeb and FOUNDATION fieldbus - 12/08/08 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 - 10/23/08 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.

		Emerson controls acetylene bottle filling at SABIC - 09/23/08 PlantWeb digital plant architecture with FOUNDATION fieldbus and mass flowmeters reduces annual cost by €300,000 and improves production efficiency by 30 per cent at SABIC Europe B.V.

		Emerson‘s PlantWeb improves production at SABIC Europe South Africa Instrumentation & Control, September 2008 SABIC Europe improved the efficiency of acetylene production at its Geleen, SA, plant by 30%, thanks to control enabled by Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture, Foundation Fieldbus networked instruments, and a Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeter for direct measurement of mass flow.

		Geo SCADA Makes the World a Smaller Place Automation World, August 2008 Equitable Gas in Pittsburgh automated its engines and compressors with PLCs and a WinCC SCADA HMI from Siemens. All of the process sensors, electric actuators and other devices in the system plug directly into a Profibus network, which eliminated much of the wiring to the PLCs.

		Ups and Downs of Taking the Bus—Part II Industrial Networking, Summer 2008 By Gary Forrest, Wyeth Research Part 2: Problems come up with the implementation of Profibus-DP instrumentation and controls, and the software configuration of each Profibus-DP device.

		Emerson and Celulosa Arauco commission pulp mill in Chile Process and Control Today, July 2008 Emerson helped Celulosa Arauco strengthen its pulp supply capability by digitally integrating the world’s largest “smart” pulping mill at Nueva Aldea in central Chile. PlantWeb digital architecture includes DeltaV systems and FOUNDATION fieldbus networking.

		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 - 06/18/08 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.

		Digital power Intech, March 2008 By John Blaney, Jim Murray, and Gary Tingley A description of how Portland General Electric installed a system that uses both Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus in a power plant.

		Greencold keeps its cool with smartwire Process and Control Today, March 2008 Moeller Electric SmartWire, a panel wiring system that puts fieldbus-like connectivity inside the control panel, has made it possible for refrigeration expert Greencold of Kettering to use just one control panel instead of the three originally planned, eliminate the need for a costly PLC, and reduce panel wiring time.

		Building control system uses LonWorks - 02/12/08 By Lonmark International Floor controls are linked via a LonWorks network, using Siemens LMEC gateways onto a BACnet system which handles the interaction with the central AHU, boilers and chillers.

		PROFIBUS used in Changi Wastewater Plant By Nick Belardes, ProSoft Technology The Changi Water Reclamation Plant in Singapore has 160 ProSoft Technology PROFIBUS DPV1 modules that handle flow meters, pressure and DP level transmitters, radar/ultrasonic transmitters, dissolved oxygen analyzers, temperature transmitters and electric actuators.

		FlavourCraft standardises on Beckhoff Automation SA Instrumentation & Control, February 2008 By Andrew Ashton The Beckhoff choice allowed FlavourCraft the flexibility to build both small and large systems with the same components and programming languages. They use Beckhoff I/O, Profibus, OPC, PACs and PLCs.

		Persian Gulf Company Uses HART to Improve Water Conversion Process HART Communication Foundation The Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) used HART technology in a major re-instrumentation project as the catalyst for improving asset management. The company installed more than 2,000 HART-enabled devices in a facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

		Advanced Technology Exceeds Expectations Control Engineering, January 2008 By David DeBari, Advanced Elastomer Systems Using smart field instrumentation and bus-oriented plant architecture contributed to the timely startup of a new thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) production line for Advanced Elastomer Systems.

		StatoilHydro Plant is HART Plant of the Year Control, January 2008 Orman Lange Natural Gas Facility in Norway Leverages HART Technology for Remote Valve Monitoring and Maintenance.

		Persian Gulf Company Uses HART to Improve Salt Water Conversion By HART Communication Foundation Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) used HART technology in a major re-instrumentation project as the catalyst for improving asset management. They Installed more than 2,000 HART-enabled devices.

		Genentech Uses HART Technology at New Facility By HART Foundation Biotechnology manufacturer Genentech is integrating HART Communication with the distributed control system (DCS) in its CCP2 facility in Vacaville, California, to manage critical device configurations that have a direct impact on plant efficiency and product quality.

		Fieldbus reinstrumentation project yields significant benefits Hydrocarbon Processing, March 2007 By M. MEDINA, Shell Oil and C. LAU, Yokogawa Here’s how Shell upgraded from a pneumatic instrumented plant to a fully digital control system

		Safe Designs Dodge Downtime Intech, February 2007 By Ellen Fussell Policastro, Associate Editor A Virginia chemical plant, where the entire facility is a hazardous area, installed Foundation fieldbus controls. The engineer involved explains the ins and outs of its bout with intrinsic safety and fieldbus, the costs involved, and the choice it had to make between FISCO and Entity.

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