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...
Profibus
Comparing EDDL and FDT/DTM Communications Enablers
I had the opportunity to visit with Emerson's Tom Wallace who was here in Austin recently. I like to joke with Tom that a post I had done with him comparing and contrasting HART and Foundation fieldbus caused such a stir, that it produced one of this blog's highest...
The EDDL Standard Keeps Advancing
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...
Response to Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA Cost Comparison Whitepaper
Update: This post is from originally from 2008. It recently came up in an "archived tweet" message. The "fieldbus wars" have cooled considerably in the time between the original post and now... thanks for stopping by! ORIGINAL POST: In the early days of Foundation...
Discussions around EDDL and FDT
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...
Peering into Your EDDL-based Field Devices
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...
First Gaining Experience and then Implementing Large-Scale Digital Bus Projects
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....
See EDDL in Action at ISA Expo 2007
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...
Diagnostics in Device Busses Improve Operations
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...
A Close Up View of EDDL’s Benefits
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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