Automation World magazine's editor in chief, Gary Mintchell, wrote a post yesterday on his Feed Forward blog. The post, The Saga Continues - FDT v EDDL describes some of his discussions with people involved in both groups about the relative merits of their respective...
Advancing industry standards remains a vibrant activity in the process automation business. These standards foster faster market acceptance of new technologies by providing interoperability among many suppliers' devices compliant to the particular standard. InTech...
When engineering a project with Foundation fieldbus, one element to consider is the electrical loading on each segment. I received an email the other day asking:...to find required formulas to calculate FOUNDATION FIELD BUS loading... I am using [brand X] product and...
Jack Murray, a member of Emerson's Metals, Mining, and Minerals industry team, shared a paper he had co-written with an Alcan Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery staff member and Emerson fieldbus consultant, Sudhir Jain. Alcan was recently purchased by Rio Tinto....
Emerson's Marshall Meier was a very busy person at this year's Emerson Exchange. In addition to his Web 2.0 in the Plant presentation that I wrote about in an earlier post, he presented on the subject of Foundation fieldbus (FF) technologies emerging in safety...
I'm catching the session, Realized Benefits from Foundation Fieldbus at the ISA Expo 2007. ARC Advisory Group's Larry O'Brien moderated the session. The first part of the session looked at BP's use of Foundation Fieldbus (FF) in an onshore oil & gas production...
For those attending the ISA Expo 2007 this week in Houston, Texas, there is quite a number of Emerson experts presenting papers. Topics being presented include: safety, analyzer integration, statistical analysis, EDDL, wireless, applied Foundation fieldbus, project...
I caught up the other day with Emerson's Dan Daugherty, whom you may recall from an earlier post on Foundation fieldbus operational benefits. Dan is a fieldbus consultant and has a lot of experience working with process manufacturers on their digital bus...
I caught up with Emerson's Terry Blevins who has been leading the standards efforts around Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) with his work as chair of the ISA SP104 committee. From the EDDL.ORG website:The Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL)...
An RSS search feed pointed to a Process and Control Today news item about the opening on a new Emerson European flow center. This center provides comparison, selection, final assembly, configuration, calibration, testing, support and training for quite a range of...
A colleague pointed me to an article, Timeline of a refinery pump failure and how it could have been prevented, on the Belgium-based EngineeringNet.be website. The story was about a South American refinery that had a high-speed centrifugal pump fail catastrophically...
Here is another installment in our continuing series of screencasts showing the intersection of Foundation fieldbus (FF) digital communications with automation systems. The intent of these screencasts is to demonstrate visually how the information in these smart field...
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