I received an email recently from Emerson's Jonas Berge. As a member of the ISA104 Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) committee, Jonas works to educate process manufacturers on how this standard fosters interoperability between intelligent field devices,...
The term "wireless" gets bandied about quite often these days among process manufacturers and automation suppliers. As process automation and IT professionals take an interest and look more closely, they begin to see different areas where wireless might be applied....
At this ISA Expo 2008 this past October in Houston, Texas, I had the chance to catch Dr. Kris Pister's keynote presentation, From Smart Dust to Smart Plants: The Evolution of Wireless Sensor Networking. Kris is the Founder and chief technology officer for Dust...
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...
When it comes to level 3 of the ANSI/ISA95 model, the production/operations management level, Emerson's Joanne Salazar and Bob Lenich are two very knowledgeable folks. I caught up with them recently in a discussion around this standard. For those not steeped in the...
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...
I spent the day yesterday at the ISA Expo in Houston, Texas to listen to some of the presentations and see some of the demonstrations taking place this week. I caught up with Emerson's Terry Blevins who is showing the interoperability and view of smart device...
The HART Communications Foundation has published another WirelessHART white paper that describes various scenarios for low-latency PID loop control. The paper, Peer-to-Peer Communication with WirelessHART describes this transmission of information between network...
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...
It's often difficult to understand the value a new international standard brings to your process manufacturing operations. Emerson's Jonas Berge has been hard at work in his capacity on the standards committee ISA104, Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) to...
When I posted last week on WirelessHART reliability, I had a chance to speak to Emerson's Russ Muller who is a senior PlantWeb specialist. As we discussed the reliability figures, Russ mentioned that the sites that applied the best practices saw reliability figures...
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