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) ...

Siemens S7-Advanced communication module permits communication between the field level and the IT world without intermediary gateways. As Ethernet continues its rapid advance into manufacturing, a ...

Panduit, a leading global provider of network infrastructure solutions, has released its latest single pair Ethernet (SPE) cables to support building automation and industrial automation technologies.

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 ...

In an article titled: “The Top 10 Myths About Industrial Ethernet Networks”, the following statement is made: “industrial Ethernet networks are more capable and just as reliable as the fieldbus ...

More wiring increases the potential for errors. The sheer size or volume of the wiring can make cabling too big to flex as axes move and articulate. A distributed-architecture strategy can shorten ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest version of Advanced Diagnostic Module DTM software monitors the quality of fieldbus communication for Foundation fieldbus H1 and Profibus PA networks, and includes a number of updates that ...