FDI technology has been developed and supported by the automation industry’s leading technology foundations and suppliers. With FDI the advantages of FDT® are combined with those of EDDL in a single, scalable solution. FDI takes account of the various tasks over the entire lifecycle for both simple and the most complex devices, including configuration, commissioning, diagnosis and calibration.
An FDI Enabled solution requires two components. A host system that supports FDI, and instrumentation that includes support for FDI Packages. An FDI Package is a collection of files including:
FDI Enabled host systems can be found in a range of automation product including, device management software as part of a process control or asset management system, a laptop based device configuration tool or a hand held field communicator. The FDI architecture requires a set of commont host software components.
FIeldComm Group supplies two products and a training workshop that are designed to allow automation suppliers to accelerate development of FDI:
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