With the growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and thus the “Connected World,” there is a need for standardized and open solutions to ensure a host of new, powerful automation assets can ...

FDT 2.0 includes.NET and FDT Express development environments. September 21, 2010 - The FDT Group AISBL released the draft of its new FDT 2.0 standard to start its membership review process. This ...

Optimizing mobile and remote operations in the new era of automation. In the industrial automation sector, the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) for plant or factory operations must be optimized to ensure ...

A job well-done can spark invitations for more work, but it can also pull competent individuals and organizations into some new and unusual areas where they have to make changes. As usual, even ...

The FDT integration standard first came into being as a means to deal with all aspects of device configuration and diagnostic data generated by smart process instruments—and to help end users better ...

“Enhanced” Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) appears to be gaining momentum in the process control community, with the unveiling of a multi-vendor demonstration of EDDL enhancements at ISA ...