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Article: Opening up the field: as open systems start to spread, the need for easier communications with field devices takes on increasing importance. Armin Tesch discusses the dilemma of multi-vendor installations and explains how FDT technology can help standardise access to field devices.(Field Communications)
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- Process Engineering
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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THE degree of automation in the process industries is growing enormously. Manufacturers of all kinds of devices are implementing more and increasingly complex functions in their products. As a result, the demands on operators are rising, while at the same time workflows need to be streamlined. In particular, the configuration, parameterisation and diagnosis of field devices is taking on increasing importance.
In addition, the wide range of components available means that field devices can be selected to best suit the individual applications. The consequence, however, is the use of real multi-vendor installations. But access to all the different parameters and ...