FDI Project Team Achieves Development Milestones
The Steering Committee of the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) Cooperation Team (ECT) continues their efforts to achieve a common solution for field device integration. The Field Device Integration (FDI) Project Team has successfully worked over the past 18 months identifying use cases that encompass all facets of plant operations: from startup and commissioning; to ongoing maintenance activities and plant operations. This team’s efforts also included drafting an architecture concept that meets the needs of both EDDL and FDT technologies as they are migrated to a common standard.
FDT Group Evolves Its Technology to Meet End Users Needs
The FDT2.0 project will incorporate increasing device capabilities with latest advances in technology
FDT Group Elects New Leader for FDT North America Marketing
Shannon Foos from Rockwell Automation has been selected as Director of Marketing North America.
ISA Sections to Host FDT Group at evening events across North America
Events will focus on educating automation professionals on FDT Technology.
BusCorp Joins the FDT Group
BusCorp fieldbus consulting and training services strengthens FDT end user support around the globe
SERCOS and FDT: Working Together for Open Systems
In November, the user organizations for the two open standards SERCOS III and FDT agreed to collaborate on drawing up an annex to the FDT specification for SERCOS III. SERCOS III will thus be the first high-performance real-time Ethernet communication standard to support FDT Technology, used by many manufacturers to connect field devices to a wide range of software environments. The extension of the FDT specification reinforces the flexibility of SERCOS III as a universal bus for real-time systems in the field of automation.
The FDT Group Announces the Creation of its Permanent Interoperability Test Laboratory
The new interoperability test system further enhances the quality of the FDT based products and will, in time, become part of the certification process
International Community Approves the Committee Draft for Vote CDV 62453 on FDT specification
This important milestone is one of the most important steps in the adoption of FDT Technology as an international standard
FDT Group releases new annex for IO-Link
IO-Link is becoming the new worldwide standard for sensor and actor communication in the world of automation. Many well known system suppliers as well as sensor and actor vendors support the new standard and offer IO-Link masters and devices. IO-Link can be easily integrated into existing field bus systems like e.g. PROFIBUS, Interbus, ProfiNet, AS-Interface, EtherCAT, etc.
Certification Process
The certification process for DTMs is successfully established since years. DTMs for more than 1000 devices are already certified and listed on the FDT Group’s web site. The tests of DTMs are performed with the official test tool dtmINSPECTOR which checks the conformance of the DTM against FDT Specifications.