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 ...

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 ...

MooreHawke, a division of Moore Industries-International Inc., announces that the Route-Master Fieldbus System has ATEX approval (FM pending) as a redundant intrinsically-safe fieldbus system ...

The Calcasieu refinery at Lake Charles, La., recently replaced its pneumatic control system with a Foundation fieldbus system that uses the PlantWeb open field-based architecture. Installation took ...

Time-triggered fieldbuses, such as Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP) and FlexRay communication protocol, have the potential to solve many systems integration and concurrent engineering issues in the ...

Rockwell Automation announced today that its PlantPAx process automation system is now registered as a Foundation Fieldbus integrated host system. Rockwell Automation announced today that its PlantPAx ...