Control system and device suppliers can take advantage of new business opportunities and prepare for a digital future with the third-generation FDT specification
FDT Group’s Managing Director, Steve Biegacki explains why the FDT standard is important for the industrial automation future….The FDT Unified Environment (FDT UE) is accelerating the evolutionary journey into Smart Manufacturing with its newly released data-centric, server-based architecture empowering IT/OT data harmonization and web services mobilizing the industrial workforce. The FDT UE Server is a completely platform-independent, single-server, cloud-based solution offering the freedom to use innovation to support new and existing manufacturing infrastructure through a smart, connected ecosystem of integrated machines and devices for the process, hybrid, and discrete industries.