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News Release from: Moore Industries International | Subject: HCS HART Concentrator
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 July 2007
Yokogawa to offer HART to Modbus
conversion unit
Yokogawa HART-based transmitters and flowmeters can now use the Moore Industries HCS HART Concentrator System to convert HART digital signals to a standard Modbus RTU communication protocol
Yokogawa Electric and Moore Industries-International have expanded their Global Preferred Vendor Agreement to include the Moore Industries HCS Hart Concentrator System The HCS allows users of Yokogawa Hart-based transmitters and flowmeters to convert the Hart digital signal from each device to a standard Modbus RTU communication protocol
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 14 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Adding the HCS expands the Global Preferred Vendor Agreement, which previously covered the Moore Industries HIM Hart Loop Monitor.
Under the agreement, Yokogawa will sell application solutions that include its Hart-based instruments and the Moore Industries Hart interface modules.
Moore Industries will provide sales, marketing and application support to the Yokogawa worldwide distribution channels.
The Hart Concentrator System makes it possible for users to extract data from multiple Yokogawa Hart devices.
Up to 16 Hart devices, such as any combination of Yokogawa Rotamass 3 Series Coriolis mass flowmeter, the EJX910A Hart multivariable transmitter, and digital Yewflo Hart multivariable vortex flowmeter, can be connected to a single HCS.
This allows users, who may not have Hart capability in their control systems, to acquire all digital process and diagnostic data from Yokogawa field instruments and send it via Modbus to a control system.
Installed transparently across the 4-20mA loop from each transmitter, the HCS extracts all of the smart transmitter Hart data by reading the digital information that "rides" on the loop wires.
For example, when used with the Yokogawa Rotamass 3 Series Coriolis mass flowmeter, the HCS will extract mass flow, density, temperature, volume flow, concentration, net flow, and diagnostics - and send it via Modbus for direct input to a Modbus-based control system.
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