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,...
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...
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...
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...
Emerson's Jonas Berge is an active member in the ISA SP104 committee, responsible for advancing the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) standard (also known as IEC 61804-3.) You may recall Jonas from earlier EDDL posts. This standard creates interoperability...
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...
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...
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...
While at the recent ISA Expo 2007, I had the chance to listen to Emerson's Jonas Berge's presentation on software for automation. Jonas is an active member in the ISA SP104 committee. This committee is responsible for advancing the Electronic Device Description...
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)...
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