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FDT Provides Factory Fieldbus Flexibility
Traditionally, Field Device Technology (FDT) had been associated largely with process automation and process field devices, but this is no longer the case. Suppliers in the factory automation space are now adopting FDT because they find it affords them the technical flexibility needed to deal with the wide range of product configurations their customers...
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 | January 22, 2013

FDT Provides Factory Fieldbus Flexibility

FDT-enabled applications within the automation system can manage field devices regardless of the device’s manufacturer, and regardless of the fieldbus protocol employed.
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Column
 | January 1, 2013

Weaving a Tapestry of Automation Technology

The things I see coming in the fullness of time are those that are built upon the control platforms that help us manage plants and factories more effectively.
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Product
 | December 3, 2012

KEPServerEX 5.10 Features ABB TotalFlow Driver, Electronic Flow Measurement Support

Kepware® Technologies releases KEPServerEX® 5.10 with new ABB TotalFlow communications driver, additional support to the Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) option, and EFM support to the Fisher ROC and
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Product
 | December 3, 2012

Cogent DataHub Simplifies OPC Data Connections

Are you trying to connect new and legacy systems? Dealing with mis-matched equipment? Facing problems of manual record-keeping, process optimization, or accessing your data on the web?
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Feature Article
 | June 4, 2012

Machine Builders Leave the Competition Behind with OPC UA and 3D Graphics

Using GENESIS64™ software from ICONICS, equipment suppliers can create fully animated intelligent 3D models that can be provided for no cost with their equipment.
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Case Application
 | June 4, 2012

Fire Equipment Maker Speeds Line, Minimizes Downtime

To make their manufacturing line more reliable and efficient, a firefighting equipment manufacturer chose Software Toolbox to provide a single-source OPC solution.
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Case Application
 | June 4, 2012

Saving Energy with OPC Unified Architecture

Achieving the energy transition to renewable resources will take more than just replacing the current unsustainable solid energy sources with clean, sustainable energy sources.
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Feature Article
 | June 4, 2012

Essential Data Access for Your Digital Wind Farm

By standardizing all communications between wind turbine controllers and third-party applications on OPC-based technology, OPC solutions from MatrikonOPC make it easy to set up a local historian, make
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Column
 | May 30, 2012

Embedded OPC UA: Enhanced Potential for Interoperability

The connectivity technology OPC UA embedded on a chip instead delivered via a PC server is redefining industrial automation architectures.
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Product
 | April 17, 2012

OPC Server for Modbus

The latest release of the Modbus OPC Server provides secure and reliable real-time data access between all Modbus devices and any OPC-enabled applications such as Historians, HMIs, and SCADA, etc.
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Product
 | February 6, 2012

Ethernet Driver for Subsea Control System Integration

The FMC722 Ethernet Driver for the DeltaV Virtual I/O Module (VIM) provides a high performance integration solution between Emerson’s DeltaV process systems and FMC Technologies’ subsea control system
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Data Flowing via OPC
Case Application
 | December 8, 2011

Natural Gas Production: Enabling In-the-Field Meter Data

Dart Oil and Gas needed to make production data from its methane wells available to engineers in the field.
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Product
 | November 30, 2011

Diagnostically Smart Temperature Transmitter

The STT250 temperature transmitter features advanced diagnostics for proactively managing the health of field devices to prevent failures before they occur.
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Perspective
 | November 1, 2011

EDDL Enables Wireless Device Integration

With all the new types of WirelessHart devices now becoming available, a facility’s control system must be able to handle the integration of a great mix of devices that already exist and stay up to da
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Product
 | March 5, 2011

Get Real-time Data Connectivity

DataHub Version 7 builds on the OPC DataHub, which offers OPC tunneling, bridging and connectivity to databases, Excel, and the Web.
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Primer
 | October 1, 2010

FDT Adds .Net Support

Many, if not most, field devices in production plants contain digital information relating to the part of the process they are controlling.
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Primer
 | September 1, 2010

EDDL: Real-time Communication With Field Devices

Some of the best technology is that which lets people do things without worrying about the technology itself.
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