Plant managers at the water plant in DeKalb Country, Ga., learned about the benefits of fieldbus networks quickly when they installed Profibus in their new water plant. They were so pleased with the ...

Many automation engineers are coming face to face with real fieldbus applications for the first time. Fieldbus (the use of digital communications networks for distributed instrumentation and control) ...

FOUNDATION fieldbus is a networking standard supported by 200 of the world’s leading suppliers and end users of process control and manufacturing automation products. Hence, end users have the freedom ...

Now that fieldbus is used in virtually all new refineries, oil and gas companies are looking beyond the older, established products and their problems to more modern fieldbus hardware solutions that ...

Digital fieldbus technologies, including Foundation fieldbus and Profibus, are increasingly being used with success in the nuclear and fossil fuel power industries. This article compares a ...

The adoption of digital bus technology such as Foundation fieldbus, Profibus-DP or DeviceNet is a significant shift from traditional power plant instrumentation and control. Digital bus experience in ...

12-mm-wide module eliminates separate motion controller to simplify development and reduce costs A 12-mm-wide I/O module, the 750-670 integrates stepper-motor and servo-drive control into the fieldbus ...

Renesas Technology America Inc. has introduced the R32C/118 family of microcontrollers with two devices that incorporate 512 kbytes of flash memory, plus an additional 8 kbytes of data flash area.

Based on a presentation to ISA2001, Sept. 10-13, 2001, Houston. The waterflood facilities for PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia´s Balam and Bangko oil fields, on Indonesia´s Sumatra Island, included ...