Many automation engineers are coming face to face with real fieldbus applications for the first time. Fieldbus (the use of digital communications networks for distributed instrumentation and control) ...

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 ...

Now that fieldbus is used in virtually all new refineries, oil and gas companies are looking beyond the older, established products and their problems to more modern fieldbus hardware solutions that ...

Based on a presentation to ISA2001, Sept. 10-13, 2001, Houston. The waterflood facilities for PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia´s Balam and Bangko oil fields, on Indonesia´s Sumatra Island, included ...

Being modular in design, complete I/O systems can be removed from the circuit without the removal of other fieldbus subscribers.The system works with common field buses, such as DeviceNet, Profibus ...

Food processor Aarhus United has installed PlantWeb digital plant architecture from Emerson Process Management at its new Danish oil processing plant. The new IT infrastructure includes a DeltaV ...

What will be the fate of fieldbus and 4-20mA network communications in the face of Ethernet’s growing use in industrial networking? This is a question that many are asking as industrial Ethernet ...

HOUSTON, Texas, April 9, 2002 — Smar International Corp. announced the licensing of its Foundation fieldbus technology to Rockwell Automation, a provider of industrial automation, power, control and ...

At this point, it’s obvious that Ethernet is fast replacing the fieldbus networks that have dominated industry for decades. A clear case in point comes from Michael Bowne, executive director at PI ...

Flowserve announces the launch of the Flowserve Logix 3400IQ Foundation Fieldbus digital valve positioner. Flowserve announces the launch of the Flowserve Logix 3400IQ Foundation Fieldbus digital ...

Pepperl+Fuchs will serve as the Fieldbus interface and PC operator terminal supplier for an Emerson Process Management expansion project with GE Healthcare for its Lindesnes plant in Norway. Emerson ...