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M&M Software is a technology and consulting company for industrial software and belongs to the co-founders of the FDT technology. Due to its services and products, M&M is established as a technology leader in the FDT area and participates in key working groups of FDT Group.

The major factor driving the growth of this Field Device Management market is the notable change from conventional technology to automated technologies with enhanced mobility support. Due to digitalization and deployment of Industry 4.0 and IOT has opened a tremendous opportunity for the Field Device Management for reducing operating and maintenance costs.

One leading industrial automation giant, specialized in Manufacturing, Production and Lifecycle Services for Valves, Actuators & Regulators, and other plant assets faced practical difficulty in configuration and maintenance of their various field devices. Utthunga developed a single Device DTM, which reduced the operational time and time to market while ensuring compliance with FDT 1.2 standard.

Healthy Metrics Driven by a Standardized Data Centric IIoT Platform.

End users drive manufacturers to deliver FDT standardized, data-centric asset management solutions.

Leading Japanese automation manufacturer to develop FDT 3.0-enabled flowmeters for the energy and environmental markets.

For a simplified automation lifecycle.

Automation industry stakeholders can utilize a variety of third-party software developer toolkits and apply the power of the OPC Unified Architecture (UA) to create bespoke Apps leveraging all the data available in the FDT® 3.0 IIoT Server (FITS™) application.

Sheer talent on-loan from our members drive FDT evolution.

Optimizing mobile and remote operations in the new era of automation.

New toolkits auto-enable OPC UA capabilities–no additional coding required.

Through this agreement, both SAP and Siemens will be able to complement and integrate their respective offerings in order to offer customers solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain, service and asset management.

The worldwide market for artificial intelligence software will expand to $98.8 billion by 2025, rising by a factor of six from $16.4 billion in 2019—despite the varying effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across different industries, according to Omdia.

To assist machine tool operators and builders through the rough economic times created in 2020, FANUC is offering this simulation tool at no cost.

Device libraries have been a common problem for many field communicators, and the complicated update procedure has been a nightmare for many users. Vendors sometimes struggle to understand what really happens in the field, and the chat groups on WhatsApp prove that the challenges still exist out there.

PRM centralizes management of large volumes of data from instrumentation and equipment.and fully supports communication standards such as HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus™ (FF-H1), PROFIBUS, PROFINET, ISA100 and FDT/DTM (Field Device Tool/Device Type Manager4) interface standards

The FDT ecosystem is evolving to incorporate modern web-based and mobile applications in the process, hybrid and discrete manufacturing markets.

Saratech will take over all of Apex's PLM software license and subscription sales, support services, and training classes.

The FDT 3.0 standard is intended to accelerate the evolutionary journey into the Fourth Industrial Revolution by enabling an ecosystem of FDT-based solutions to meet demands for IIoT and Industrie 4.0 applications.

ShipTrack’s cloud-based solution can operate as a stand-alone system or integrated with customers’ back-end systems. Whether the system of record is an online ecommerce platform, ERP, TMS or just a financial software to manage logistics data, ShipTrack can integrate to existing systems and provide customers and the extended value chain 360-degree visibility of order or delivery statuses.