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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To comply with new regulatory requirements, Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) modernized the process control on its Merluza offshore platform in the Santos basin, off Brazil. To comply with new ...

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 ...

TE Connectivity's new M8/M12 cable assemblies for Fieldbus data communications complement the vendor’s existing sensor/actuator cable assembly solutions for industrial networks. The new A- and B-coded ...