I'm lucky enough to receive a copy of Andrew Bond's Industrial Automation Insider newsletter each month through an Emerson subscription agreement. Andrew covers the happenings among the automation suppliers and standards bodies. You can also find some of Andrew's...
Earlier this week, I listened to Gary Mintchell's personal podcast, Automation Minutes Episode 59. Gary interviews Emerson's Jonas Berge, a member of the ISA104, Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) standards committee. EDDL is also recognized globally by...
The ISA recently issued a press release around demonstrations of Electronic Device Description Language, EDDL (international standard IEC61804 and ANSI/ISA-61804-3) and FDT (ISA103) technologies at the ISA Expo 2008 in October in Houston, Texas. For those not familiar...
A colleague forwarded a recent ARC Advisory Group report, FDT Reaches Out to Process End Users. It described a recent briefing by representatives of the FDT Group to the ARC team. A few parts of the report that really raised some eyebrows among members involved in the...
Emerson's Dale Perry and Jonas Berge teamed up for a look at EDDL (Electronic Device Description Language) technology from a pressure measurement device perspective in a recent Industrial Automation Asia article, Pressure Transmitters: EDDL Equals Easy. Their...
You may have seen some of the coverage of last week's Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) End User Demonstration (DeltaV News, Sound OFF! blog, and ARC's Larry O'Brien's blog to name a few.) This event highlighted demonstrations of Foundation Fieldbus...
I had the opportunity to visit with Emerson's Tom Wallace who was here in Austin recently. I like to joke with Tom that a post I had done with him comparing and contrasting HART and Foundation fieldbus caused such a stir, that it produced one of this blog's highest...
My spy utility, WatchThatPage, alerted me to another good article, this time on the Fisher control valves and regulators area of the Emerson website. The article, Getting ready for the nuclear renaissance, from the April issue of Valve World magazine, features Bill...
I recently joined the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) mailing list to follow the work of this important standard. For those not familiar with this standard, EDDL.org describes it:Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) technology is used by major...
I received an email from Anand Iyer. He's a certified project management professional (PMP) and a project manager in Emerson's engineering center in Pune, India. His project experience covers the gamut from pharmaceuticals, bulk drugs and intermediates to oil, gas and...
A question came into Control.com's Automation List the other day, about strategies to convince management of the benefits of going with Foundation fieldbus (FF) or a DCS. The question:We have two options at our hands, either to go for in vogue DCS, an easier option to...
Update: This post is from originally from 2008. It recently came up in an "archived tweet" message. The "fieldbus wars" have cooled considerably in the time between the original post and now... thanks for stopping by! ORIGINAL POST: In the early days of Foundation...
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