I saw the news from the Fieldbus Foundation of automation systems or "hosts" being registered incorporating the Host Profile "61b". It is described: In the Foundation fieldbus automation infrastructure, hosts can include configuration tools, recording devices, alarm...
I caught wind of a Foundation fieldbus free seminar series beginning in Carson, California on May 24. Additionally, there is a session the following day for automation suppliers. The end user and engineering contractor session is described as being: …designed for...
In last week's post, Refinery Desalter Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement, Emerson's Jonas Berge added a comment with a link to an article he wrote about the setup, calibration, and diagnostics of guided wave radar (GWR) level transmitters. The article, New EDDL is...
Emerson's Lee Neitzel teamed up with OPC Training Institute's Randy Kondor to develop a 5-part video series, Getting started with OPC Xi (OPC .NET 3.0) for Programmers. This series is geared toward automation supplier programmers and process manufacturers' programmers...
As 2010 was winding down, I did a post Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results in which I referenced a book Catching the Process Fieldbus--An Introduction to Profibus for Process Automation. Over the holidays, I received an email from Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom...
Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom I've highlighted many times on this blog, is at it again with another great article in Industrial Automation Asia magazine. The article, Wireless Sensor Networks: All In One describes the IEC 62591 WirelessHART communications standard and...
In case you haven't seen this news yet, the OPC Foundation has renamed OPC Xi to OPC .NET 3.0 (WCF). Let's call it OPC .NET 3.0 for short. It's the same client/server connectivity standard and functionality for the process industries that I've been describing as OPC...
Whether controlling pumps, fans, blowers, conveyors, compressors, extruders, mixers, agitators, chippers, etc., AC variable speed drives can be found in most plants and mills. Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier digital communications-related...
While at the recent Emerson Exchange, I had a chance to catch up with Emerson's Dr. José A. Gutierrez, an expert in the field of wireless networks. You may recall José from earlier wireless-related posts. His background includes participation in IEEE LAN/MAN,...
Update: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Original post: We began this week with a post about the compatibility of the OPC Express Interface (Xi) standard with the existing OPC classic real-time, alarm & events, and historical data access servers to provide...
Update 2: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Update and bump: I want to thank Randy Kondor for giving me permission to add the architecture pictures to the post below! Original post: Reading through my RSS feeds this morning, I came across this post, OPC UA and Xi for...
In my email this morning was the monthly Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) digest. It's one of many ISA email discussion lists. Emerson's Jonas Berge is the driving force behind the EDDL educational information that comes out in this email list and on the...
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