Archive for the ‘Profibus’ Category

Clarifications on Process Fieldbuses

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Profibus on Thursday, January 6th, 2011. No comments yet
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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 you may recall from many digital bus and electronic device description [...]

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Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus on Friday, December 3rd, 2010. No comments yet
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Those that read this blog regularly know that I rarely delve into controversial topics. The focus is much more about connecting readers with the experts we have all around Emerson Process Management. One of the few posts that caused a dust up was Response to Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA Cost Comparison Whitepaper (with a [...]

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Digitally Connected Variable Speed Drives

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Profibus on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010. No comments yet
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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 posts, recently had an article published in Control Engineering Asia magazine. The article, The Digital Drive, highlights the operating and [...]

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EDDL and Profibus Common Ground

Posted in Interoperability, Profibus, Wireless on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009. No comments yet
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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 in future PNO development activities, most importantly the implementation of [...]

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Seeing EDDL Interoperability in Action

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Profibus on Monday, April 13th, 2009. No comments yet
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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, asset management software, and process automation systems from various automation suppliers. Jonas is a large contributor to the [...]

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Comparing EDDL and HTML in an Automation Minutes Podcast

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Measurement, Profibus, Technologies on Friday, October 31st, 2008. No comments yet

Earlier this week, I listened to Gary Mintchell‘s personal podcast, Automation Minutes Episode 59 (iTunes | RSS feed). Gary interviews Emerson’s Jonas Berge, a member of the ISA104, Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) standards committee. EDDL is also recognized globally by international standard IEC 61804-3. A few weeks earlier, Gary had interviewed a member of [...]

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Demonstrations of Smart Field Device Information Display

Posted in Asset Optimization, Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Profibus, Wireless on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008. No comments yet

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 with EDDL, I described it in an earlier post as a text-based language that is used to [...]

Stainless Steel Transmitter Housings for Corrosive Environments

Posted in DeviceNet, Food & Beverage, Life Sciences, Measurement, Oil & Gas, Profibus on Wednesday, August 13th, 2008. One comment so far

Recently, one of my RSS feeds alerted me to a new Micro Motion 2400S transmitter packaged in stainless steel for the ELITE Coriolis flow and density meter line. This 316L stainless steel packaging is: Rated to IP66 and IP67, the corrosion resistant stainless steel housing is ideal for applications where instruments are subjected to regular [...]

Comparing EDDL and FDT/DTM Communications Enablers

Posted in Asset Optimization, Enterprise Integration, Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Profibus, Technologies on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008. One comment so far

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 monthly visitor totals to date. So [...]

The EDDL Standard Keeps Advancing

Posted in Asset Optimization, Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability, Profibus on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008. No comments yet

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 manufacturers to describe the information that is accessible in digital devices. Electronic device descriptions are available [...]

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