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News Release from: Fieldbus Foundation | Subject: GA 08 Summary
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 March 2008
Fieldbus Foundation report on 2007
achievements
At their Annual General Assembly in Antwerp, FF reported on the achievements of 2007, when technology developments and growing industry adoption marked a busy year
The Fieldbus Foundation, conducting its 2008 General Assembly in Belgium, has announced it achieved many important milestones during 2007, including new technology developments and growing industry adoption of the open, integrated Foundation automation infrastructure According to a recent survey by the ARC Advisory Group, tens of thousands of Foundation-compliant control systems, and over a million field devices, are now in service around the world
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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At its 2008 General Assembly, themed "Why Foundation Has Become The Standard," the Fieldbus Foundation cited progress on many key technology initiatives benefiting the automation industry.
For example, the Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) development, which has achieved TUV Type Approval, will help meet the growing worldwide demand for commercial, standards-based safety instrumentation incorporating Foundation fieldbus.
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FF hosts end user events at Interkama 2004
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The Foundation SIF working group will conduct a series of technology demonstrations at end user sites around the world, including Shell Global Solutions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; BP, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; and Chevron, Houston, USA.
The Fieldbus Foundation also joined the HART Communication Foundation and Profibus Nutzerorganisation e.V (PNO) in a cooperative effort to develop a specification for a common interface to a wireless gateway.
The intent of this collaboration is to facilitate full, scalable integration of both wired and wireless technology in industrial automation.
The Foundation accelerated its work defining the structure for interfacing remote I/O over its High Speed Ethernet (HSE) control backbone.
The addition of remote I/O further tightens the integration of process instrumentation within the Foundation system solution.
It also announced the availability of new temperature transducer block and H1 cable test specifications.
The specifications include features enabling automation equipment suppliers to further improve the interoperability and reliability of their registered Foundation fieldbus products.
The Fieldbus Foundation board of directors mandated rigorous host testing, which will strengthen fieldbus interoperability and system integration.
Under the new host registration programme, hosts successfully completing the test requirements will be authorised to bear the official Foundation product registration symbol.
Additionally, a new Fieldbus Foundation End User Council (EUC) was launched in India to support the huge demand for fieldbus-based systems.
An inaugural Foundation fieldbus seminar held in Mumbai, India, attracted over 300 automation end users.
The organisation also announced the establishment of marketing committees in India, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltics (CISandB), Sweden and South Africa.
These groups are made up of representatives of leading process automation companies in the regions.
Other detailed announcements on these topics from the Fieldbus Foundation are listed on Processingtalk dated 28 and 29 February.
Please consult http://www.processingtalk.com/news/fie/fie000.html.
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