Smart field devices based on HART, Foundation fieldbus, and Profibus had standards-based files to integrate them with control and asset management systems. The file types, EDD and DTM were not compatible with one another causing process manufacturers and automation...
Electronic Device Description Language
More on Foundation Fieldbus and HART
I wanted to bring visibility to several recent comments from an earlier post, Major Difference between Foundation Fieldbus and HART Protocols. Here's the summation thought from the first comment: …With one software package, and as put above with HART pass-through, you...
Update and History of Field Device Integration (FDI) Effort
Standards are an essential part of technology advancement. They provide a way for users to choose from multiple suppliers, and suppliers to create solutions with multiple suppliers' technologies. In areas where competing standards emerge, it's great when a path to a...
Adopting Smart Instrumentation Diagnostic Operator Alert Standard
The Fieldbus Foundation has been collaborating with the international process industry end-user association, NAMUR, to adopt the NAMUR NE-107 standard as part of the Fieldbus Foundation's Diagnostics Profile Specification (FF-912). The purpose of this NE-107 standard...
Device Revisions Management Best Practices-Is DD the Problem or the Solution?
Emerson's Jonas Berge posed this question, which he addressed in his Emerson Exchange presentation with the same name. His abstract: Keeping the system up to date with new types and versions of 4-20 mA/HART, WirelessHART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, and PROFIBUS devices as...
Integrating Gas Chromatographs with Control and Device Management
Gas Chromatographs (GCs) are used in many process-manufacturing processes. Some GC applications include fuel & flare gas analysis, cracking furnace BTU firing rates, gas ratios, and a whole lot more. Wikipedia defines the gas chromatography process: …used in...
EDDL Standard Enables Human Center Designed Applications
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...
Magnetic Flowmeter Calibration Verification and Diagnostics
Magnetic flowmeters (magmeters) are often used in water and wastewater applications due to the conductivity properties of the water. In a Water & Wastewater Asia magazine article, Better flowmeter management with EDDL, Emerson's Jonas Berge describes how...
Managing Intelligent Device Revisions
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...
Increased Span and Reduced Complexity in Process Automation
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....
Wireless Level Switches and Interoperability
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...
Accessible Guided Wave Radar Setup, Calibration, and Diagnostics
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...
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