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) ...

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 ...

Panduit, a leading global provider of network infrastructure solutions, has released its latest single pair Ethernet (SPE) cables to support building automation and industrial automation technologies.

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 ...

Designed for coupler manufacturers to perform a standard set of tests against their implementation, the Fieldbus Foundation’s latest updates to its open, non-proprietary Foundation fieldbus physical ...

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 ...

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

The emergence of new and innovative Fieldbus will offer immense growth opportunities. To make most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing ...

Its exceptionally high bandwidth (25Mbps) and tight pulse width distortion (6 nanoseconds) achieves the industrystandard for field bus communications in automation technology such as Profibus, ...

The FieldConnex surge protectors arrest lightning current and over-voltage in PROFIBUS PA or FOUNDATION Fieldbus topologies and may also be employed for implementing a Lightning Protection Zones ...