CANopen Annex Released for FDT Specification
The FDT Group is proud to announce the release of the CANopen annex as the 9th protocol specific annex for the FDT specification. The CANopen annex is published on the FDT Group website and can be downloaded from https://www.fdtgroup.org.
New FDT Group Managing Director
The FDT Group Board of Directors announces that Flavio Tolfo, the Managing Director of the group for the last three years will take his retirement as of July 1, 2009. After establishing the FDT Group in 2006 in the organizational structure we have, Flavio was a key contributor to establish the FDT Group into what it is today.
FDT Group to Exhibit at ISA Brazil
FDT Technology to be displayed demonstrating standardized device integration
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