Fieldbus & Industrial Networking


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PCI-bus multifunction DAS card
March 2003, Access Control & Identity Management
A multifunction DAS card for the PCI bus is available from ProMicro. The PCI-1710/1710HG provides high quality 12-bit A/D conversion, D/A conversion, digital input, digital output and counter/timer functions. The ...

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Consumer technology on the factory floor?
January 2003
Ethernet technology has now become ubiquitous in the offices and cubes of commercial business enterprises, and high-speed networking is becoming increasingly common in the home through a variety of consumer ...

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Profibus-DP active I/O modules
November 2002
The Brad Harrison Profibus-DP I/O modules provide direct connection to the Profibus-DP fieldbus, accommodating a variety of three-wire DC PNP sensors and actuators. The modules are designed for industrial ...

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North Sea platform revived with fieldbus technology
September 2002, Yokogawa South Africa
Fieldbus technology will provide on-line device diagnostics and realtime plant operation data

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World's first intelligent industrial Ethernet device server
September 2002, RJ Connect
Moxa Technologies offers its MOXA EtherDevice Server, which it says is the world's first intelligent industrial Ethernet device server specially designed for connecting Ethernet-enabled devices, such ...

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Profibus PA and Foundation Fieldbus in the same transmitter
September 2002, WIKA Instruments
WIKA's range of head-mounted transmitters has an interesting new addition: The PR 5350, manufactured by PR Electronics, is said to be the first transmitter in the world to feature two bus protocols. The ...

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Presentation on process networking and communications technology
September 2002
Sasol Sastech control and instrumentation guru to share his views at BUSSTOP 2002 Eminently qualified, Suran Pillay will deliver his views on process networking and communications technology at the BUSSTOP ...

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New Profibus fieldbus module gets agency approval
April 2002, Moore Process Controls
The PFM (Profibus Fieldbus Module) connects the APACS+ process automation system to Profibus - a high-speed, digital two-way serial communication bus. Profibus technology offers a wide range of applications ...

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Fieldbus-based architecture in a German plant
February 2002
"The extremely useful aspect of fieldbus technology is that Fisher-Rosemount can take a look inside individual items of instrumentation from outside our plant, eg from its headquarters operation at Haan, using PC Anywhere."

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Hydroformylation pilot plant uses latest fieldbus technology
February 2002
Honeywell's latest Phase 2 Foundation Fieldbus technology will be used for the first time in South Africa at Sasol Technology R&D's Hydroformylation Pilot Plant in Secunda. This follows a successful bid ...

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Controlling processes via fieldbus - increasing reliability and reducing costs
December 2001
Visible valve motion also informs the operator of the presence of a poorly tuned or sluggish valve

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Encoder featuring radio communication
September 2001, ATI Systems
Leine & Linde are taking a look at the future of industrial communication technology in a project in collaboration with Free2Move of Halmstad, Sweden. The development of techniques for communication ...

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InterBus-S module
September 2001
The CM21 InterBus-S module is a general-purpose programmable interface device between the InterBus-S network and up to two HS500 series antennas, or as many as 32 HMS series reader/writers, RS series ...

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Embedded web servers - a solution to configuring embedded devices
September 2001
The Internet has impacted on the modern world to such an extent that the ability to browse websites and download information has become the norm. The expectation to access any device via a web browser ...

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Asynchronous serial interface
September 2001
The CM01 module is a general-purpose programmable interface that can be connected between any standard serial com port or PLC serial communications module to the CM01 and read/writes to the HS-series ...

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Network serial device server
September 2001, RJ Connect
The NPort Server Lite series is an industrial-strength, network-based serial device server for connecting up to four RS232 or RS422/485 devices, such as CNCs, PLCs, scales and scanners, directly to a ...

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Industrial networking fieldbus products
September 2001
Systematic Designs, a value-added reseller specialising in offering realtime solutions to its customers, is offering Tews Datentechnik's fieldbus and networking products. Tews have a range of PMC (PCI ...

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Conet on fibre-optic
September 2001, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
Omniflex has implemented a version of Conet which runs through a serial port connection called Conet/s. This serial implementation of Conet/s allows the use of Conet Protocol on a RS232 link which was ...

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Analysing EtherChannel
September 2001
In today's networks, bandwidth has become the primary focus of IT managers as they try to plan for the current and future needs of users. The availability of information and deployment of video technology ...

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The progress of standardisation in fieldbus technology - the ongoing Fieldbus dilemma
March 2001
What is becoming very clear is that no single Fieldbus product will emerge as the universal standard in the industrial automation environment

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