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FDT joined Utthunga in co-hosting a Linkedin Live event focused on FDT3 Migration! The automation industry is focused on service-oriented solutions empowering smart manufacturing. Device integration, lifecycle management, and data access are no exceptions. Learn how FDT has evolved and the benefits now offered with the FDT (3.0) Unified Environment (UE). FDT is embedded system and device software! Migration is simple!

Glenn Schulz, FDT managing director, held a press conference on June 3, 2020 to announce the launch of the new FDT 3.0 architecture. The new FDT 3.0 standard will accelerate the evolutionary journey into the Fourth Industrial Revolution by enabling an ecosystem of FDT-based solutions to meet demands for IIoT and Industrie 4.0 applications.

Download Presentation: https://www.fdtgroup.org/download/11410/

Download Press Kit: https://www.fdtgroup.org/download/10511/

This webinar hosted by FDT Group and Utthunga explores new techniques for harmonizing IT/OT data for any network, device or industry, with a secure-in-depth approach.

The webinar speakers include:
Glenn Schulz, Managing Director, FDT Group
Dharmaraju B, Technical Director – Device Integration, Utthunga.

The 60-minute webinar will educate attendees on the following important topics:
1. What is the FDT 3.0 IIoT platform and ecosystem?
2. How does the FDT OPC UA Universal Device Information Model (companion specification) integrate all networks, devices (and information models) and industries?
3. How does FDT leverage a ‘secure-by-design’ approach for information integrity and reliability?
4. How does FDT integrate the PADIM to solve data harmonization problem for process automation?
5. Experience the demonstration of uDDX Suite.

Day Two | Agenda Topic Include:

• FDT 3.0 Security
• FDT 3.0 Certification
• FDThub
• Overview of Communication Annexes
• Supporting Other Configuration Standards
  • FDI DTM
  • Generic DTM / ioddINTEPRETER
• Installation of FDT Server
  • Azure
  • Linux

The FDT 3.0 standard was developed based off industry-driven feedback and will provide control system and device vendors with the opportunity to advance their intelligent automation solution offerings with a flexible and scalable FDT IIoT platform empowering a standards-based, platform independent, information-driven business models meeting the demands of the process and discrete markets. FDT 3.0 will empower the intelligent enterprise by transforming manufacturing practices, enabling open, secure and flexible deployment architectures and sensor-to-cloud integration with embedded OPC Unified Architecture (UA) and Web Servers, as well as built-in security features and deployment options for cloud, edge, on-premise and desktop environments.

Topics Covered in Day One

• General FDT Overview
• FDT 3.0 Platform Introduction
• Demos – OPC UA, Raspberry Pi, Flowserve DTM demo (using the FDT Webserver and FDT OPC UA server along with a custom portal)
• Current Products and Use Cases

Link to View Day Two: https://www.fdtgroup.org/resource/fdt-3-0-developer-workshop-2020-2/

This is a recording of the FDThub presentation from the Developer Workshop that occurred in 2020.

With the FDThub, certified FDT 3.0 DTMs can be automatically downloaded from the cloud for use in on-/off-premise server and desktop applications. The repository provides convenient DTM/App storage and device management, as well as secure data transfer and messaging with proactive user alerts when DTM updates are available.

This is a recording of the FDT 3.0 Developer event that was hosted on Oct. 19, 2021 by FDT Group and M&M Software. The event was led by subject matter experts, who led attendees through the FDT 3.0 IIoT ecosystem, demos and development tools available to create and customize next generation automation solutions supporting innovative business models for open automation manufacturing.

The is a great webinar to watch if you are a developer, system architect, business strategist, product manager, business development manager interested in learning about FDT-Ready solutions empowering the intelligent enterprise.

If you would like to download the presentation in PDF format, please visit: https://www.fdtgroup.org/download/11321/

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Experts discuss everything mobility during this webinar. From brownfield to new greenfield smart applications, the FDT 3.0 IIoT Platform allows the industry to benefit from cross-platform functionality, browser-based mobile access with Apps for real-time IT/OT data access. Empower your workforce!

The FDT Group held a member only developer seminar & webinar event focused on educating the member community on the new FITS™ (FDT IIoT Server) architecture and the technology rollout plan. Led by FDT technical experts, this was the first event of its’ kind providing an in-depth scope of FDT technology advancements support digital transformation for IIoT and Industrie 4.0 applications.

Designed to simplify the industrial automation ecosystem exchange, FITS enables mobility, cloud, and fog enterprise applications, as well as sensor-to-cloud and enterprise-wide connectivity. It simplifies the move to IIoT, combining OPC UA integration, web services and rich control network interoperability to optimize connectivity and information exchange for the next generation of automation. It features robust layered security addressing all components of the server architecture.

Enjoy watching the recording at your leisure!

By using intelligent information – the hidden asset, and integrating intelligent device diagnostics into an asset management or automation system, you begin the process of monitoring the “Check Engine” status allowing the opportunity to improve your bottom-line profitability. Using FDT Technology-enabled solutions, including the Frame Applications and device DTMs provided by your device suppliers, you will be able to identify minor problems before they become critical — lowering maintenance and operating costs. FDT Technology is supported and available by most major device and automation systems suppliers. In fact, you might be using FDT Technology today for device configuration and set-up but might not be getting the benefits of this hidden asset.

Take the first step to discover the hidden asset in your own intelligent measurement devices. Speak with your automation suppliers and ask them for their FDT Technology solutions.

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 work and is available to you via a 30 minute On-Demand Webinar hosted by FDT project manager, Dr. Thomas Hadlich.

With many updated control and asset management systems, intelligent device diagnostic information is accessible and available for immediate use. For those that don’t, there are many different cost-effective products that make access to intelligent device information possible. This diagnostic information enables you to change your maintenance activities from reactive — work on what’s broken — to more proactive or even predictive activities, such as fixing small problems before they turn into bigger problems.

Imagine the benefits of using real-time device diagnostics to reduce the number of trips to the field, prevent an unscheduled shutdown or reduce the length of a scheduled shutdown. Whether you are part of the reliability, maintenance, process improvement, management or other plant function, putting this valuable information to work can produce big results with relatively small investments and low-risk.

Explore the experiences of Dow Chemical Company who have successfully implemented an effective asset management and reliability program. Learn how changes in organizational and work processes for Intelligent Field Devices directly delivered significant cost savings and reliability improvements.

FDT Group and OPC Foundation hosted a joint webinar on September 14th, focused on educating industrial automation end-users and manufacturers about efforts to empower a single enterprise integration platform for secure and managed exchange of performance driven-analytics. This is a key topic with the growth of the IIoT and Industrie 4.0.

The webinar highlighted the latest collaborative developments and the role the FDT for OPC UA information model companion specification plays in evolving digital architecture transformation for the new era of automation. Supporting brownfield and greenfield applications, the unified solution empowers the next generation industrial workforce with open, flexible deployment options allowing sensor to cloud, enterprise-wide connectivity.

The webinar explored:

• Development work resulting in a device-to-cloud computing strategy that supports configuration, communication, run-time and historical data access, as well as alarming and event services for existing and upcoming devices supported through FDT technology.
• Introduction of an FDT IIoT Server (FITS™) combining OPC UA integration, web services and rich control network interoperability to optimize connectivity and information exchange, and simplifying the move to IIoT.
• Advancement of FDT’s approach to providing access to meaningful, real-time plant information and asset health data with NAMUR NE107 diagnostics with Device Type Managers (DTMs) available throughout the plant topology via a robust network tunneling capability.
• Adoption of FDT for device integration and OPC UA for the communication layer, respectively, of the German Reference Architecture Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0).
• Discovery of application use case scenarios and technology demonstration utilizing FDT for OPC UA and Industrie 4.0 through the RAMI Asset Administration Shell.

Enjoy the webinar recording!