Emerson Process Management's chief strategic officer, Peter Zornio, shared his thoughts on how IEC 62591 WirelessHART and ISA100.11a could converge in a recent Control Engineering article, News and comment: Can WirelessHART and ISA100 converge? The HART Communications...
Emerson's Adam Lund has a great article, Human Centered Design Supports Improved Job Performance, in the February edition of Maintenance Technology magazine. Adam highlights some reasons why human centered design is growing in importance for process automation...
Update: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Original post: It's been a while since I've shared an update from Emerson's Lee Neitzel on the OPC Xi standard. If you're not familiar with this new addition to the OPC Foundation's family of communications standards, here...
Update 2: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Original post: In the Control magazine article, Playing Well with Others, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes describes how process analyzers can use OPC Xi and OPC ADI to better communicate with control systems. These...
Update 2: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Original post: In an earlier post, Secure, Firewall Friendly Communications, I described the new OPC Express Interface (Xi) standard. It overcomes some of the inherent issues in securely communicating information between...
Emerson's Alan Harris has written a new whitepaper, DeltaV SIS HART Capabilities. It describes various HART capabilities that can be used with the DeltaV SIS system as well as HART diagnostics implementation best practices. For those unfamiliar with HART, the HART...
Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier EDDL-related posts, has written a great summary of the EDDL demonstration at the recent ISA Expo 2009. I'll highlight a few of his key points and embed a slideshow of some pictures from the event. For those...
One of the issues with the proven OPC standard has been the communications between OPC client and OPC server when a firewall separates them. The cyber-security challenges that process manufacturers face were not envisioned in the original release of the OPC...
Emerson's indefatigable Jonas Berge shared with the ISA EDDL list today that ISA has upgraded its email list server software. You may recall Jonas from his leadership on the electronic device description language (EDDL) web site and in many posts here on this blog....
I saw ARC Advisory Group's Larry O'Brien's post this week, Emerson Profibus Membership is One More Step toward Common Ground. In it, he writes: In fact, Emerson has supported Profibus for some time. The PNO membership officially seals the deal and gives Emerson a hand...
Three automation suppliers' host systems have just passed the Fieldbus Foundation's Host Profile Registration Process, including Emerson's DeltaV system and AMS Device Manager software. The DeltaV and AMS Device Manager software achieved Class 61 - Integrated Host...
I wanted to give a quick mention of the HART Communications Foundation's annual HART Plant of the Year End Users' Award. They are encouraging nominations from all world areas through May 31. I mention this because some process manufacturers have begun to include...
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