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Read the online version if links don't work in this Fieldbus Networks Update. | | | June 2009 | Sponsor: Moore Industries | Now You Can. 
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Prevent network downtime with eNetMeter™ and Netalytix™ remote diagnostic tools. They continually collect data from DeviceNet to identify potential problems and prevent system failures before they can occur. Brad® Products - Complete solutions for automation infrastructure applications in harsh environments. Click here for more information | Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | | | In this Issue |  | | Featured Articles | The Components of FDT Technology
Control, April 2009
By Chris Stearns and John Yingst, FDT Group
A brief, basic introduction to DTMs and the FDT Frame. WirelessHART: the right standard at the right time
What’s New in Process Technology, March 2009
The WirelessHART standard provides a robust wireless protocol for the full range of process measurement, control and asset management applications. Based on the proven and familiar HART protocol, it enables users to quickly and easily gain the benefits of wireless technology while maintaining compatibility with millions of existing devices, also existing tools, asset-management systems and historians. Is HART 7 set to bring us another killer app?
Control Engineering Europe, March 2009
The stage is set for a major change in the way instruments communicate their values with control and asset management systems. With the debut of HART 7, the possibility is now open to collect signals through both wires and wireless systems, making data collection much simpler to organise and maintain. This may turn out to be the ‘killer application’ of the decade. Intelligent device management with EDDL
What’s New in Process Technology, February 2009
By Jonas Berg, Emerson
Process instruments, such as radar level transmitters, are set up and calibrated in the field, and in many process industries this requirement is met by readily available handheld communication devices. EDDL is the best fit for process control; therefore, it is also used in the DCS world of integrated systems. EDDL remains independent from underlying gateways and interface cards, so one EDDL file fits all systems. Tank farm operators show new confidence in fieldbus
Oil & Gas Engineer, February 2009
By Michael Herbstritt
As with most new technologies, the operational safety of fieldbus when it was introduced in the 1990s was challenged. Those issues have been addressed and today, fieldbus systems are widely implemented including installation in safety-relevant areas such as tank farms.
| | Browse more articles and white papers on the Fieldbus Networks portal. | Live News Feed | | | | | Product Announcements | | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Fieldbus Networks portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | Proactive DeviceNet Monitoring through Innovative Technologies
By Michael Frayne, Molex
DeviceNet is a robust fieldbus with millions of nodes installed globally; however, there can be issues. Here’s how to extend preventive maintenance methodology to your plant fieldbus network. PROFIsafe: Networked Safety for Process and Factory Automation
By ARC Advisory Group
Safety has evolved from being a cost burden to a strategy for improving productivity and reducing downtime. PROFIsafe allows seamless communication of safety data independent of network media. Automation users are now taking advantage of these solutions to unify their network while maintaining conformity with safety standards up to SIL3. Diagnostic Tools for PROFIBUS and PROFINET
By Softing
The most common problems of PROFIBUS networks are faulty cabling or connectors causing poor signal quality levels. In order to detect and identify those kinds of issues an engineer can either use an oscilloscope (and lots of experience) or an Electrical Tester for PROFIBUS that makes the job much easier. Conformal Coating Protects Ethernet Switches
Conformal coating acts as protection against moisture, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes that could result in a complete failure of the electronic system. Applications include mining, metal industries, oil & gas, chemical processing and food and beverage industries.
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| | Resources & Literature | Guide to using industrial fieldbus cable
By Northwire
Multi-pair fieldbus trunk lines simplify installations by merging formerly scattered control and instrument points into common bus segments and junction boxes.
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| | Application Stories | Improved Fieldbus Operations with Advanced Diagnostics
Control, May 2009
By Chris Williams, Eastman Chemical Company
The High-Power Trunk concept (HPT), together with FieldBarriers, provides a new approach to creating intrinsically safe fieldbus segments. The entire installation is continuously monitored by the Pepperl+Fuchs’ ADM integrated in the FieldConnex power hub. Reliable processes for biodiesel production
Process and Control Today, April 2009
For the process automation system of its biodiesel plant in Schwedt, Germany, VERBIO decided to use a PROFIBUS fieldbus infrastructure. VERBIO decided to use the FieldConnex product range from Pepperl+Fuchs as the fieldbus interface technology throughout the plant. Bionic Tonic Transforms German Brewery Into Health Beverage Titan
Control Design, April 2009
By Matthias Falk, Bionade Abfüll
Bionade transformed Germany’s struggling Peter Brewery in Ostheim into a European powerhouse. Programmers, engineers, electricians and production managers purchased and blended used components including old PLCs, pasteurization equipment, material handling and unpacking equipment and a case washing system into one fieldbus-based system. Automated water treatment plants
South African Instrumentation & Control, April 2009
Three plants in Egypt each have approximately 1200 I/O points. The process and system control uses Beckhoff PLCs, Profibus, PCs, control panels and soft PID controllers. A pipeline full of data—on a single wire
Control Engineering Europe, March 2009
Facing tightening environmental and regulatory requirements, a municipal water jurisdiction in Canada designed a first-case leak detection and monitoring system. HART technology is key to cost-effectiveness.
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| | Featured Training | Siemens Answers for Industry conference
June 9 – 11, 2009 Long Beach, CA
Free event features seminars, hands-on technology demonstrations networking and best-practice sharing to help attendees answer the toughest questions facing their industries today. Fieldbus Applications 401
June 22-26, 2009 Baytown, Texas
This intense, hands-on, full-week course is designed for instrumentation technicians, process operators and other personnel who need to be certified in Foundation Fieldbus. Foundation Fieldbus Developer Training
June 23-26, 2009 The Netherlands
A one-day “Introduction to Foundation Fieldbus” course will be conducted on June 23. The three-day “Advanced Principles of Foundation Fieldbus” will be held on June 24-26. Achieving Operational Excellence with Foundation Technology
October 15, 2009 Long Beach, California
One-day seminar covers the entire infrastructure, including demonstrations of Open Scaleable Integration, Process Integrity and Business Intelligence. Local end user speakers will be present in the afternoon to discussion their experiences with the technology.
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| | Company & Organizational News | Rival fieldbuses prepare for a wireless future
Control, May 2009
By Andrew Bond, Industrial Automation Insider
Rival fieldbus organizations the Fieldbus Foundation (FF) and Profibus & ProfiNet International (PI) are taking steps to ensure that they still have a role in any future Ethernet- and wireless-dominated world. FDT Group forms group to upgrade standard
FDT2.0 has been initiated with the goal to evolve the current FDT Technology to meet user feedback and requirements. Yokogawa's CENTUM and STARDOM now Fieldbus Foundation hosts
CENTUM VP Integrated Production Control System and STARDOM Network-based Control System are certified by the Fieldbus Foundation as Integrated Host Class systems. ABB’s System 800xA registered as FOUNDATION Fieldbus Host
System 800xA was registered as a FOUNDATION fieldbus host system after it passed the Fieldbus Foundation’s Host Profile Registration Process. Softing supplies PROFINET stack to Omron
Omron will use Softing’s PROFINET stack in a new line of PROFINET devices.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Fieldbus Networks portal. | | Project News | Emerson automates coal gasification plant in Shanghai
Emerson will provide PlantWeb and FOUNDATION fieldbus for the $375 million expansion of the coal gasification plant in Shanghai. ABB to supply System 800xA for new power station in New York
The order includes operator consoles, AC800M Controllers, System 800xA and S800 I/O with HART. Emerson to automate Mitsubishi advanced polymers plant
Emerson will provide PlantWeb, Foundation fieldbus instrumentation, analyzers, DeltaV controls, AMS software, valves, engineering and project management. HIMA to provide Evonik Degussa with fieldbus safety system
HIMA will provide two HIMax CPUs, two system bus modules, two digital output and three input modules, one analog output module and one communications module for PROFIBUS-DP. Honeywell to control Egyptian fertilizer plant
Equipment includes an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), safety systems, and Foundation fieldbus technology.
| Browse more project news on the Fieldbus Networks portal. | | Featured Events | Oil and Gas Asia 2009
June 10-12, 2009 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
OGA 2009 is one of the biggest and most sought after shows in the Asian region. There will be over 1,000 participating companies from over 40 countries exhibiting. It is expected to attract some 20,000 trade visitors and decision makers from the oil and gas industry. Honeywell User Group Meeting
June 14-18, 2009 Phoenix, AZ
The Users Group agenda is largely developed by customers, for customers. Characterized by excellent user presentations, industry-specific sessions, topical roundtable discussions, and an extensive demonstration area, the event provides you with the opportunity for extensive networking and knowledge sharing. Honeywell Users' Group has earned recognition as being the automation industry’s premier technical conference. Using WirelessHART Technology in Process Industries
June 16 and June 25, 2009 Philadelphia, PA
Free, one-day, vendor-neutral, educational seminar on WirelessHART technology, presented by industry specialists from the HART Communication Foundation, ABB, Endress+Hauser, Emerson Process Management, Pepperl+Fuchs and Siemens. Asean Industrial Automation
July 15-18, 2009 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Asean Industrial Automation is a leading trade event dealing with the Industrial Automation, Manufacturing Process, Control and Measurement Equipment & Technology. Industrial Automation Show
November 3-7, 2009 Shanghai
Since its inception in 2003, Factory Automation ASIA has been successfully held three times. It has established itself amongst the most important platforms in the production automation industry in Asia.
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