FDT Group News & Articles
FDT Group helps Brazilian bioethanol producer streamline automation system
- January 7, 2019
- News
The following article describes how a field device management solution employing FDT Technology helped a major bioethanol producer streamline device commissioning and maintenance tasks, and at the same time, increase productivity and savings as part of a major Greenfield project.
ICS Built-in Security in Today’s Connected Enterprise
- January 7, 2019
- Feature
By Glenn Schulz, FDT Group and Katherine Voss, ODVA The following article describes efforts by the automation industry to develop next generation standards and technology, which enhance security throughout the lifecycle of industrial control devices in today’s connected world.
FDT Standardized Mobility Solutions and User Interface for Agile Operations
- January 3, 2019
- Feature
The following article describes how ongoing technology developments by FDT Group will help optimize industrial organizations and their maintenance departments by enabling cloud-based enterprise data access, device diagnostics, mobility applications, and the use of augmented reality in asset management and predictive maintenance programs.
Timeless Technology Standardizes IIoT Connectivity
- January 3, 2019
- Feature
The industrial revolution now underway, commonly referred to as Industry 4.0, is powered by advancements that include smart manufacturing, advanced analytics and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
All the Data without the Trouble
- January 3, 2019
- Feature
The following article describes how technology collaboration between two open, automation industry standards organizations is changing the paradigm for integrating control systems, applications and devices within a unified architecture – all aimed at optimizing information exchange throughout the industrial enterprise.
FDT Standard Looks to the Future - Empowering Digital Transformation
- January 3, 2019
- News
For suppliers of industrial control products and solutions, implementation of the FDT standard is a forward-looking strategy supporting the new era of automation.
FDT Group announces full-platform independence for FDT IIoT Server (FITS) architecture
- November 7, 2018
- News
With built-in security protecting valuable information and operating data, the FITS platform will enable cloud, enterprise, on-premise, and a single-user desktop deployment method meeting the needs of the process, hybrid and discrete manufacturing sectors.
FDT Group announces release of FDT 2.1 specification
- April 26, 2018
- News
The key technological embellishments in 2.1 set the stage for FDT’s transformation towards a complete, standardized Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture enabling sensor-to-cloud, enterprise-wide connectivity for next-generation automation solutions.
FDT 3.0 IIoT Solutions Enabled Right Out-of-the Box
- by Lee Lane
- September 20, 2020
- Feature
New toolkits auto-enable OPC UA capabilities–no additional coding required.
FDT 3.0 Common Components Decrease Development Efforts and Increase Interoperability
- by Manfred Brill, FDT
- June 15, 2020
- Opinion
The FDT ecosystem is evolving to incorporate modern web-based and mobile applications in the process, hybrid and discrete manufacturing markets.
FDT 3.0 Standard and Development Tools Now Available
- by Lee Lane, FDT
- June 15, 2020
- Opinion
By Lee Lane, FDT Chairman of the Board of Directors
Created on the long legacy of the rock solid FDT standard, we now release the features and capabilities that are needed for IIoT, remote monitoring, mobility, and IT/OT integration.
FDT Group releases FDT 3.0 – FDT IIoT Server (FITS) standard
- June 4, 2020
- News
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.
FDT Group and ODVA announce addition of FDT 3.0 support to Common Industrial Protocol
- May 27, 2020
- News
FDT and ODVA share a common core mission that includes advancing open, interoperable information and communication exchange for the industrial automation marketplace.
FDT Group announces Flowserve Corporation to join Board of Directors
- May 20, 2020
- News
Based in Irving, TX, Flowserve has been a member of FDT Group and a participant on the organization’s technical working groups, and recently upgraded its membership to “Sponsor” status and assumed roles on both the FDT Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
DD/FDI Package to DTM + Customization = Easy Integration
- March 20, 2020
- News
With the invention of smart field instruments, device drivers associated with them have become crucially important to fetch valuable diagnostic information to improve operations and performance saving valuable time and money.
FDT 3.0 (FITS) to Launch with FDThub
- by Lee Lane
- February 3, 2020
- Opinion
Secure online and offline DTM repository meets use case requirements benefiting suppliers and end users
FDThub Repository Eliminates Device Management Headaches
- by FDT Technology
- January 21, 2020
- Opinion
Automation stakeholders will benefit from secure DTM/App management and storage in the cloud
FITS Platform Moves Asset Management to the Cloud
- August 22, 2019
- Feature
By FDT Group Explore how the FDT Server connects plants, people and data in new ways