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Dale Perry

Dale Perry is the Wireless Service and Training Manager at Emerson Automation Solutions. He has over 32 years of service, training and product management experience in the process industries. Dale is a technical developer and instructor, and he leads worldwide seminars covering Emerson products and industry technologies.
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    How to Pick the Right Fieldbus Protocol

    There are four leading types of protocols commonly used in process plants: HART, PROFIBUSPA, FOUNDATION Fieldbus and WirelessHART. All four of these protocols are designed to connect field instruments to control and monitoring host systems, typically a distributed control system (DCS) or an asset management system
    By: Dale Perry
    14 December, 2017 | 15 minutes
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