As the production lines develop and become increasingly complex, the number of devices (sensors and actuators) that need to be managed also grows. Industrial processes are carried out by PLCs and ...

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 ...

Modern power plants are turning to smart instrumentation to provide the accuracy and reliability needed to succeed in the competitive generation industry. Technological advances in field ...

Compared to traditional, non-Ethernet-based industrial solutions, Ethernet technology delivers substantially higher performance and several other advantages. First developed almost two decades ago, ...

Fieldbuses are widely used in industrial networking for real time monitoring and control. The many fieldbus standards are evolving and morphing to Ethernet. A fieldbus is an industrial network ...

To develop standards for signals used in process measurement and control, to transmit information between subsystems or separated elements of systems. Such signals may be analog or digital. However, ...

XMOS announces a range of solutions tailored specifically for designers of embedded industrial products with the launch of new industrial Fieldbus capabilities within its xCORE family of multicore ...

UK chip designer XMOS has entered the embedded industrial products market with the launch of new industrial Fieldbus capabilities within its xCORE family of multicore microcontrollers. The company is ...

Applying FOUNDATION Fieldbus, co-authored Bharat Ratilal (B. R.) Mehta, Ph.D., and Jaganmohan (Y.J) Reddy, Ph.D., was recently published by ISA. In this Q&A interview, Dr. Mehta provides important ...

The integration of Ethernet and wireless interfaces into microcontrollers makes networking even easier in industrial automation. Every line of microcontrollers includes a model with at least one ...