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Plant- and Machine-Wide Communications
News Release from: Emerson Process Management - Systems and Industry
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2001
The Fieldbus Awareness Campaign
continues...
Well known for his lectures within the DTI "Faces" Fieldbus Awareness Campaign, Frank McKenna's continued programme features the DeltaV process automation system from Emerson Process Management
Well known for his lectures within the DTI "Faces" Fieldbus Awareness Campaign, Frank McKenna of Catena Associates is continuing this lecture and fieldbus training programme, to provide an independent overview of the various fieldbus systems available Frank is an experienced control and instrumentation engineer, particularly after 15 years experience as an end-user and specifier of systems with BP, and membership of various IEC, ISA and BSI committees
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Courses and demonstrations are normally targeted to the specific requirements of the client, and frequently involve connecting instruments from the plant under discussion, to show how it can be interrogated.
One of the major demonstration tools used for this is the DeltaV process automation system from Emerson Process Management, which can accept inputs from a wide range of plant instrumentation formats and fieldbus systems.
These include Foundation fieldbus, Profibus DP, AS-i bus, DeviceNet, HART and also conventional 0-20mA or 4-20mA connections.
Most important is to show that interoperability is achievable, equipment from different manufacturers can operate on the same bus, or within the same control system.
Frank McKenna can be contacted via email at francis_mckenna@onetel.net.uk.
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