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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas, April 9, 2002 — Smar International Corp. announced the licensing of its Foundation fieldbus technology to Rockwell Automation, a provider of industrial automation, power, control and ...

To comply with new regulatory requirements, Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) modernized the process control on its Merluza offshore platform in the Santos basin, off Brazil. To comply with new ...

Food processor Aarhus United has installed PlantWeb digital plant architecture from Emerson Process Management at its new Danish oil processing plant. The new IT infrastructure includes a DeltaV ...

The Fieldbus Foundation has announced the latest updates to its open Foundation fieldbus physical layer technology. Current enhancements to the H1 (31.25 kbit/s) device coupler test specification will ...

Siemens S7-Advanced communication module permits communication between the field level and the IT world without intermediary gateways. As Ethernet continues its rapid advance into manufacturing, a ...

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 ...

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) ...