Tablets Take Control

August 10, 2016

In This Issue:

  • New Board Driven Initiatives will Enable Comprehensive IIoT Deployment,
  • Polymer Producer Mobilizes Field Device Management to Optimize Productivity and Increase Maintenance Efficiency,
  • Simplifying Strategies for Effective DTM Implementation,
  • Enhancing DP-Based Flow Measurement with Dynamic Compensation
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Bridge Legacy & New Automation

May 11, 2016

In This Issue:

  • Bridging Legacy and the New Era of Automation,
  • FDT/DTM Solutions Offer Great Promise for Automation Suppliers,
  • Digging into Diagnostics,
  • Compact Diagnostic Module Minimizes Downtime,
  • Myriad PlantPAx Enhancements Enable Advanced Integration Strategies,
  • A Tale of Two Couplers: Profibus Linking Devices
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Optimizing Secure Integration

February 10, 2016

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
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Pulp Plant Slashes Valve Maintenance Costs

November 11, 2015

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
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Motor Monitoring Improves Coal Washing

August 12, 2015

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
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Simplifying Robot Operations at Kuka

May 10, 2015

In This Issue:

  • FDT will Play a Big Role in Global Manufacturing Efficiency,
  • Simplifying Robot Configuration from Production Through Diagnostics at KUKA,
  • Plant Life Cycle Management Sees Increased Value When a Project Starts with the End in Mind,
  • Device Interoperability: The Hidden Layer
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