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 ...

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.

At this point, it’s obvious that Ethernet is fast replacing the fieldbus networks that have dominated industry for decades. A clear case in point comes from Michael Bowne, executive director at PI ...

With this steady growth in RS-485 fieldbus adoption and Industry 4.0 accelerating the deployment of smart connected factories, ensuring that fieldbus technologies are optimized helps to enable a smart ...

In an article titled: “The Top 10 Myths About Industrial Ethernet Networks”, the following statement is made: “industrial Ethernet networks are more capable and just as reliable as the fieldbus ...

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 ...

Fieldbus (or field bus) is the name of a family of industrial computer network protocols used for real-time distributed control. It is a way to connect instruments in a manufacturing plant. A typical ...

Based on a presentation to ISA2001, Sept. 10-13, 2001, Houston. The waterflood facilities for PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia´s Balam and Bangko oil fields, on Indonesia´s Sumatra Island, included ...

Promising quick and easy connection of multiple devices to the main fieldbus trunk, the JRBS junction bricks are available with four, six, eight, 10, or 12 ports and feature removable terminals ...