The Profibus started the idea of traveling road shows approximately 10 years ago as a way to show Edn Users how their technology worked. The Road Shows consist of a series of free 1-day seminars in different cities around the continent spread out through the year. Locations for the events were generally selected based on where potential applications for the technology could be found to guarantee some level of attendance.

From 'The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking'

I had the opportunity to attend the Fieldbus Foundation Seminar in Vancouver last week and was not only pleasantly surprised by the turn out, some folks drove up from Seattle, but more importantly the fact that several EPC companies were represented. This was the second of the 2010 North America seminar series and next up is St. Louis in April.

From 'The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking'

There is new hope for End Users that a uniform interface to the rich information such as diagnostics and related material in smart instruments may soon be available. This is because a number of supplier companies have joined the FDI cooperation project that initially consisted of the major technology trade organizations, FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communication Foundation, OPC Foundation and PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation.From 'The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking'

From 'The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking'

The September issue of the FDT Group Newsletter reports on the WIB study of eEDDL vs. FDT/DTM.

From the FDT newsletter: "The conclusions presented at the meeting are very positive for FDT Technology. Details will be given in the final report; however, the highlight...

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