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LATEST NEWS
- ABB Flowmeters Secure Ethernet-APL Certification
ABB flowmeters are now certified to the Ethernet-APL standard, making them ideal for operation in demanding process plant environments, including hazardous areas. These intelligent devices are an important step for facilities undertaking the journey toward a fully digitalized and network-centric instrumentation architecture.
- Modernizing Automation for Smarter Plants
Process plants perform better, more safely, and sustainably with an intelligently modernized core process control zone. Digital transformation with the NAMUR Open Architecture and technologies like HART-IP provide the data transfer capabilities required to support these initiatives.
TECHNOLOGY
- Ethernet-APL for Future-Proofing Industrial Field Networking
Intelligent Ethernet-APL switches provide the connectivity needed to support plant modernization projects. Ethernet- APL, PROFINET, and OPC-UA based profiles in both FDI and PA-DIM provide users with ready access to the data and valuable diagnostics required to maximize facility performance and uptime.
- Ethernet Integration Increases Efficiency
Many processes require monitoring of numerous temperature points. This temperature concentrator module, combined with a HART-to-Ethernet gateway, is a compact and cost-effective way to digitally transmit up to 128 different temperature signals to a MODBUS/TCP host or web browser using Ethernet.
- PA-DIM Showcased at ACHEMA 2024
PA-DIM empowers users to unlock the full potential of field devices and sensors by replicating their signals across hosts, cloud platforms, and analytics applications, all with a common information model, regardless of device type, brand, or protocol.
Focus on FDI
- PACTware Supports FDI Technology
PACTware has long been used by engineers to configure devices supporting FDT/DTM technology. FieldComm has joined the PACTware Consortium, and now PACTware 6.1 supports FDI Device Packages, making it both a manufacturer- and fieldbus-independent software tool.
New products and content from our sponsors
- ABB: New NINVA™ with SIL2 certification for safer and simpler temperature measurement
- Azbil: Smart HART Modem
- Emerson: AMS Trex Device Communicator
- Microcyber: New Generation of Fieldbus Smart Temperature Transmitter
- Moore Industries: Overcoming Challenges of High-Density Temperature Monitoring with Ethernet
- Pepperl-Fuchs: Ethernet-APL, Digitization Reaches the Field of Process Industries
- ProComSol: Ethernet-APL
- R. Stahl: Ethernet-APL Field Switch (Hazardous Areas)
- Softing: Industry 4.0 Implementation for HART Devices
- Yokogawa: Vortex Flowmeters, Ideal for Steam Flow Measurement