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News Release from: Rockwell Automation
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2005
Collaboration focuses on instrument
control
Rockwell Automation is working with Endress+Hauser to provide customers with more convenient, standards-compliant methods for configuring a wide range of process instruments.
Rockwell Automation is working together with Endress+Hauser (E+H), the world's largest independent supplier of process instrumentation, to provide customers with more convenient, standards-compliant methods for configuring a wide range of process instruments The co-operation is part of a broader initiative by Rockwell Automation into the hybrid process applications segment
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Together, the companies will expand device connectivity and configuration capabilities using standard technologies such as Foundation Fieldbus and Hart, implementing and testing the full capability of E+H devices with Allen-Bradley Logix controllers and RSLogix 5000 software.
In addition, through the use of E+H FielDCare software, Rockwell Automation will offer configuration, diagnosis and integration of a wide range of process devices into the Rockwell Software RSMACC suite of asset management software solutions.
This solution will allow Rockwell Automation to offer integration of process devices using both EDD and the "Field Device Tool/Device Type Manager" (FDT/DTM) specifications.
Furthering its commitment to open standards, Rockwell Automation intends to join E+H and other companies in the steering committee of the FDT/DTM Joint Interest Group with the goal of furthering FDT as a configuration and data management interface for text- and graphically-based process device profiles.
"This participation complements our leadership in the Fieldbus Foundation as we help drive standards that cover the broadest possible range of process devices", said Ken Deken, Vice President and General Manager Logix NetLinx business, and the Rockwell Automation representative on the Fieldbus Foundation Board.
"We see this as a means to help the customer more easily manage the wide range of critical and complex process devices".
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