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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

At this point, it’s obvious that Ethernet is fast replacing the fieldbus networks that have dominated industry for decades. A clear case in point comes from Michael Bowne, executive director at PI ...

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 ...

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) ...

Despite developments in sensor technology, the integration of a sensor within a larger systems device often results in a simple digital on/off signal. Whilst many applications would find this adequate ...