One would think that because the Fieldbus Foundation defines so many other parameters in its standards that the time for the Compel Data message used for the Publish/Subscribe messages on which control in the field is based would also be standardized. Not so. This sometimes makes it difficult for designers to properly estimate the macrocycle requirements, which is unfortunate since in many cases the bandwidth of the Fieldbus system is now the design constraint.

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

Found the following tidbit in the latest issue of the Industrial Automation Insider. Our U.K. buddy, Nick Denbow, has unearthed the following convoluted history of the Rotameter brand. 

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ISA announced a couple of days ago that a whole group of Honeywell and Yokogawa instruments and devices had completed WCI-compliance testing and were now certified ISA100.11a devices. That's cool.

Or is it?

Which ISA100.11a were these devices certified against?

ISA100.11a-2009, which was withdrawn from the ANSI approval process?

ISA100.11a-2010, which is being re-written with some significant changes from the 2009 model year and hasn't been approved yet?

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In a clear sign that Yokogawa's North American sales management sees the recovery beginning to happen, the company announced today that it was, effective March 16, appointing Techstar and BBP Sales as their representatives in the two most important US territories for the oil, gas and petrochemical focused automation giant. Techstar will represent Yokogawa in the all-important Houston area including the Ship Channel.

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Yokogawa Electric Corp. announced the availability of VigilantPlant Services, a comprehensive package of automation service solutions designed to help manufacturers achieve safe, environmentally friendly, and profitable plant operations in line with the Yokogawa VigilantPlant concept.

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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'

I promoted this from a comment on my post earlier about kids not wanting to go into manufacturing.

　

Hi Walt,

 

Saw your "kid's don't want to work in manufacturing" blog entry and wanted to send you some good news on this topic from my own back yard.

 

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Dennis Nash of Control Station is really pleased. Yokogawa has adopted his loop tuning software for Centum.

Control Station and Yokogawa Team to Maximize Production Efficiencies
Integrated Tuning Solution Addresses Industry Need for Enhanced Automation Capabilities

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Here's the press release, notwithstanding the fact that they have a whole track at this User Group on WirelessHART and how to use Yokogawa products with WirelessHART. #yoko #pauto

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Arcy talked about the goals and benefits of the Yokogawa Users Group. "Yokogawa is a group of engineers who are great at building great products...but marketing..."

This is about the symbiotic relationship between Yokogawa and its end users.

He introduced the steering committee...

and talked about the function of the steering committee.

#yoko #pauto

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