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) ...

HMS Networks has released its annual analysis of the industrial network market, marking 12 consecutive years of tracking how ...

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.

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 ...

Siemens S7-Advanced communication module permits communication between the field level and the IT world without intermediary gateways. As Ethernet continues its rapid advance into manufacturing, a ...

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 ...

More wiring increases the potential for errors. The sheer size or volume of the wiring can make cabling too big to flex as axes move and articulate. A distributed-architecture strategy can shorten ...

A lot has changed in the automation sector over the past 20 years and industrial networks are no exception. In the early 2000s, many engineers questioned the viability of Ethernet use on the plant ...

Food processor Aarhus United has installed PlantWeb digital plant architecture from Emerson Process Management at its new Danish oil processing plant. The new IT infrastructure includes a DeltaV ...

The latest version of Advanced Diagnostic Module DTM software monitors the quality of fieldbus communication for Foundation fieldbus H1 and Profibus PA networks, and includes a number of updates that ...