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Tips and Tricks in Deploying Wireless Field Networks

Posted in Interoperability, Wireless on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012. No comments yet
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Since the WirelessHART standard was ratified in 2007 and approved as the global IEC 62591 standard in 2010, its use among process manufacturers has continued to grow. A release from last fall noted: IMS Research reports that worldwide shipments of industrial products that are wireless-enabled are set to grow from an estimated 1.2 million in [...]

EDDL Standard Enables Human Center Designed Applications

Posted in Interoperability, Wireless on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011. 2 comments so far
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ControlGlobal.com has an article, Get Connected with WirelessHART, which highlights the rapid adoption of this international standard. The article’s author notes: According to the wireless study published in Control’s August 2011 issue, 43% of respondents said they already had wireless field networks, while another 27% said they were planning to install them in the next [...]

Managing Intelligent Device Revisions

Posted in Asset Optimization, Interoperability on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011. No comments yet
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My RSS subscription to the Fieldbus Foundation blog alerted me to a device revision management whitepaper over at the EDDL.org (Electronic Device Description Language) site. The whitepaper, Device Revision and Lifecycle Management Guide: How to keep systems up to date and compatible with new devices using EDDL, describes an issue in maintaining intelligent field devices: [...]

Increased Span and Reduced Complexity in Process Automation

Posted in Interoperability, Measurement on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011. No comments yet
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Pipeline magazine has an interesting article, The evolution of automation, which describes some of the ways automation technologies are changing plant environments. The article provides perspectives from several automation suppliers, including Emerson’s Phillip Bond. One trend highlighted in the article is the increasing variety and lowering cost of sensing devices to measure the process. This [...]

Wireless Level Switches and Interoperability

Posted in Interoperability, Wireless on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Jonas Berge shares how level switches have joined the ranks of wireless devices in a recent Control Engineering Asia article, Switching to Wireless. He notes how this enables: …an easy and cost-effective solution for level monitoring without laying cable or associated risk of damaging the existing installation, and enable configuration and troubleshooting from a [...]

Enhanced Foundation Fieldbus Interoperability

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011. No comments yet
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I saw the news from the Fieldbus Foundation of automation systems or “hosts” being registered incorporating the Host Profile “61b”. It is described: In the Foundation fieldbus automation infrastructure, hosts can include configuration tools, recording devices, alarm display panels, human-machine interfaces (HMIs), or a combination of functionality. Host profiles are key to fieldbus system interoperability, [...]

Foundation Fieldbus across Plant Lifecycle

Posted in Foundation Fieldbus, Interoperability on Monday, May 9th, 2011. No comments yet

I caught wind of a Foundation fieldbus free seminar series beginning in Carson, California on May 24. Additionally, there is a session the following day for automation suppliers. The end user and engineering contractor session is described as being: …designed for process industry end users and engineering firms, the one day seminar will cover all [...]

Accessible Guided Wave Radar Setup, Calibration, and Diagnostics

Posted in Interoperability, Measurement on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011. No comments yet
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In last week’s post, Refinery Desalter Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement, Emerson’s Jonas Berge added a comment with a link to an article he wrote about the setup, calibration, and diagnostics of guided wave radar (GWR) level transmitters. The article, New EDDL is guiding radar: interface level made easy appears in the Australian Process Online [...]

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Getting Started Videos for OPC .NET 3.0

Posted in Education, Interoperability on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Lee Neitzel teamed up with OPC Training Institute‘s Randy Kondor to develop a 5-part video series, Getting started with OPC Xi (OPC .NET 3.0) for Programmers. This series is geared toward automation supplier programmers and process manufacturers’ programmers with in-house OPC applications. For process manufacturers, many need to update their OPC custom applications to [...]

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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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