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News Release from: Fieldbus Foundation
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 July 2007
FF Brazilian marketing committee names
officers
The Fieldbus Foundation, conducting a press briefing as part of a fieldbus educational seminar, has announced the officers for its new Brazilian Marketing Committee
The officers include: Claudio Fayad, Emerson Process Management, Chairman; Marcos Rocha, Pepperl+Fuchs, Co-chairman; and Augusto Pereira, Yokogawa, Secretary/Treasurer The Brazilian Marketing Committee will organize a wide range of fieldbus-related activities, including Foundation technology training seminars, trade show displays, and end user demonstrations
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fieldbus Foundation Marketing Manager Bill Tatum, who conducted the press briefing, welcomed the inaugural marketing committee officers.
"We are pleased to have representatives of leading automation industry companies serve on our new Brazilian Marketing Committee," said Tatum: "They will play an important role in guiding the direction of this organization as it strives to increase adoption of Foundation technology throughout the Brazilian process control market".
Leading automation suppliers sponsored the Sao Paulo seminar - the first fieldbus instructional event of its kind in Brazil.
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Sponsors included: ABB, Emerson Process Management, the Fieldbus Centre at Lee College, Honeywell, Invensys, MooreHawke, MTL, Pepperl+Fuchs, R Stahl, Rockwell Automation, Smar, Tri-State University, Turck, and Yokogawa.
The one-day seminar provided comprehensive information describing how Foundation fieldbus is "Changing the Playing Field" in industrial automation.
It covered all aspects of Foundation automation infrastructure management, and included tabletop displays of the latest fieldbus products and solutions.
According to Brazilian Marketing Committee Chairman Claudio Fayad, fieldbus technology is making significant inroads among Brazilian end users.
Fayad indicated a recent ARC Advisory Group study found developing markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China would experience the greatest fieldbus growth.
The study predicted Latin America would see an annual growth rate of nearly 34 percent for protocols included in the IEC 61158 standard.
ARC also noted that among those implementing a fieldbus solution, over two-thirds chose Foundation fieldbus for their process applications.
Fayad commented, "Throughout Brazil, Foundation fieldbus is becoming the solution-of-choice for both Greenfield and Brownfield control system projects.
The technology is widely used in the oil and gas, petrochemicals, sugar, Ethanol, and pulp and paper industries.
For example, Deten Quimica launched the world's first commercial Foundation fieldbus installation at Brazilian petrochemical refining complex.
Petrobras, the national petroleum company of Brazil, also undertook a major fieldbus controls project on its Merluza offshore platform".
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