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In This Issue:
LATEST NEWS
- Pioneering Plants Push Automation into the Future
Plant of the Year winners have spanned six continents, representing the chemical processing, upstream and downstream oil and gas, steel, utilities and wastewater sectors.
- Ethernet-APL will be a Process Industry Catalyst
Ethernet-APL, introduced in 2018 by a group of automation vendors and leading industry standard associations, such as FieldComm Group, provides efficient and scalable connectivity from field devices directly up to the control system. Ethernet-APL will be a catalyst helping process plant operators embrace Industry 4.0.
- Multi-Protocol Connectivity Infrastructure for Process and Manufacturing
Deploying multiple bus technologies is frustrating for automation system designers. The solution is implementing Ethernet-APL to carry multiple IP and Ethernet application protocols concurrently, providing capable and low-cost connectivity convergence of everything, everywhere throughout a production site.
TECHNOLOGY
- PA-DIM Simplifies and Expands OT/IT Connectivity
Process Automation Device Information Model (PA-DIM) is a unifying technology, providing a cooperative way for IT systems to easily access and consume OT field device information, regardless of the underlying protocols. PA-DIM moves data where it is needed, bridging the great OT/IT divide.
- Simplify Intrinsically Safe Installations Using Ethernet-APL
Planning and installation of process plant field networking, especially in areas requiring intrinsic safety for explosion protection, is simplified compared with traditional approaches by using Ethernet-APL. Now, continuous Ethernet access is possible from controllers all the way down to Zone 0 hazardous areas.
- Single Pair Ethernet is Ideal for Factory Sensor Connectivity
Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) requires just one wire pair to transmit data and supply power to field devices, and it supports a wide variety of topologies. Continuous communication is essential for IIoT, and SPE is a simple, secure, compact, and cost-effective cabling solution providing many advantages.
Focus on FDI
- FDI Supports Field Device Management
Many field devices are deployed where it is difficult to access them for support. To address this issue and more, the ABB SmartMaster platform incorporates Field Device Information (FDI) to collect condition monitoring data remotely without additional wiring, enhancing the management of field instruments, and providing easier access to their data.
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