The adoption of digital bus technology such as Foundation fieldbus, Profibus-DP or DeviceNet is a significant shift from traditional power plant instrumentation and control. Digital bus experience in ...

A DeviceNet network can have as many as 64 node addresses. Because it uses the CAN data-link layer, DeviceNet is inherently a peer-to-peer network, though many applications use a master/slave ...

Indications point to a resumption of the “fieldbus wars” that generated much trade press ink in the late 1990s and early 21st century. Each organization has recently begun communication initiatives ...

Industrial automation has made high-quality, low-cost manufacturing and process control an everyday occurrence. Industrial automation systems have been constructed with many fieldbus systems, such as ...