Getting the Most from Digital Communication in the Age of Digitalization and IIOT

Field instruments that support the HART communication protocol represent the largest quantity of devices installed in the process automation industry. For the near future new instrument shipments will predominantly be HART-enabled.

While traditionally used for setup and configuration, HART technology provides a broad array of maintenance and diagnostic features that can dramatically improve operational efficiency.

HART technology continues to evolve.

Coupling HART-IP enabled infrastructure with new device integration software technologies dramatically simplifies access to existing HART information and enables a new class of monitoring and optimization features in traditional asset management systems as well as standalone local or web-based applications.

Adding HART-IP instrumentation with an advanced physical layer such as Ethernet-APL will provide additional user benefits while maintaining the knowledge base gained over decades of usage of HART enabled asset management and control software.

In this webinar Phoenix Contact will explain how HART instruments can be connected for easy access to digital data and will outline their Ethernet-APL products. 

Then FieldComm Group will provide an overview of Ethernet-APL technology and then discuss value enabled when users require FDI Device Packages and FDI enabled host software from their instrument and system suppliers so that they might get the greatest value from their HART, WirelessHART and HART-IP instruments – today and tomorrow!

Demonstrations of commercially available products that support FDI from ABB, Emerson, and Flowserve may be part of the webinar.