
FDT Group Names New Schneider Electric and Yokogawa Executives to Board of Directors
Andre Uhl and Shinji Oda assume key automation industry posts

FDT Group Releases dtmINSPECTOR4 Test Tool
Updated software optimizes testing and certification of FDT2-compliant DTMs

FDT Group To Demonstrate Latest Technology for Process and Factory Automation at Hannover Fair
Live, interactive displays will demonstrate brewing application and OPC UA data exchange

Field Device Management Based on FDT and OPC UA

Optimizing Secure Integration
In This Issue:
- Members Lending Industry Experts to Enhance Device and Network Integration Standard,
- Diverse Global End Users Represent the “Face of FDT”,
- Expanding the Horizon of Device and Network Integration,
- FDT and OPC UA Unite to Bring Sensor to Cloud Enterprise Integration,
- Advance Your PLC Configuration Method – Saving Time, Trimming Costs,
- New DTM Interface Simplifies PLC programming,
- Universal Modbus DTM Standardizes Communications
FDT & OPC UA Unite to Bring Enterprise Integration
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]To help inform the industry about the progress of the FDT/OPC UA project our technical working group committee has released a substantial body of […]

Pulp Plant Slashes Valve Maintenance Costs
In This Issue:
- Major Pulp Plant Slashes Maintenance Costs and Downtime,
- To Repair or Replace the Device – That’s the Question,
- Gateway Provides a Bridge Between Measurement and Maintenance,
- Configuring, Calibrating HART Devices Made Easy,
- One Software Environment, Myriad Functions,
- FDT Offers Device Setpoint Confidence,
- Seamless Data Exchange Across All Network Layers and Protocols

Device Management User Guide for Operational Optimization
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Putting FDT Technology to Work – Management of Multiple Smart Devices. Let’s get connected! Thanks to the internet, we can now connect in ways […]

Motor Monitoring Improves Coal Washing
In this Issue:
- FDT2 Emerges While FDT is Tapped in Consortium’s RAMI 4.0,
- Motor Monitoring and Diagnostics at Techno-Agrar’s Coal Wash Plant,
- Changing Plant Operations and Maintenance Cultures Improves Plant Reliability,
- Standardized Software Interfaces Enable Open and Flexible Automation Systems

SUPCON DCS Asset Management Upgraded to FDT2
Leading DCS Vendor in China Sharpens Their Cutting Edge.