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The Read-Out Instrumentation Signpost
Measurement, Control and Automation Resources throughout the World
Last changes to this page: 3/3/03
 Catching the right Bus!
Towards a standard in Digital Communications
Fieldbus links on this site.
Unbiased or unalaigned information?
This is part of the famous Readout Fieldbus Site.
See also The Hulsebos Fieldbus Website Directory and Fieldbus Exhibitions and Conferences
We would particularly welcome contributions from users.
Fieldbus Portal is a useful comparison chart set up by Armin Steinhoff of STEINHOFF Automations & Feldbus-Systeme of Germany. There is also a very nice Fieldbus Classification Chart in pdf format available from this page.
Comparative table - the leading Canadian automation publication Manufacturing Automation has produced an extensive table showing the technical specs, advantages/disadvantages, etc. of Profibus, DeviceNet, AS-i, SDS, Interbus and CANopen.
New fieldbus resource - Henk van der Biezen former director European operations of the Fieldbus Foundation is involved in an new activity FieldbusPlaza.com for the benefit of the end-users and covering all available fieldbus technologies today.
New FACES! - A Fieldbus
Awareness campaign (FACES), being supported by Britain's Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI )and organised by SIRA, is underway at some 40 workshops around
the UK over the next 2 years.
Another unbiased site is mantaimed by Romilly Bowden Consultant in Industrial Control Software and Communications. He specifically deals in HART as well as fieldbus.
An article which appeared in 1995 by Action Instrument's Jim Pinto: Fieldbus - A Neutral
Instrumentation Vendor's Perspective." This includes a comparison Table
comparing various Fieldbusses (LON, CAN, Profibus, FIP, SP-50), the first we've
seen.(Intech July '95.)
Here is An I/O network
comparison chart published by Synergetic.com
A special report, The prophet in
Profibus on the Profibus Trade Organization's first general meeting in
the United States.
The Proceedings for all of the FieldComms Conferences (except '95
which is apparantly sold out) are available to order from FieldComms International. While
these may not be "unbiased" in the strict meaning of the term the fact that
information from many different factions adds to the authenticity of these
papers. The FieldComms US'97 Proceedings probably include the most
comprehensive collection ever of fieldbus material.
A Fieldbus
Home Page is mantained by CRAN the Research Center
for Automatic control of Nancy, in France which has lots of interesting
material in this area.
INFIDA - The Internet
Fieldbus Database is another resource well worth keeping in touch with.
There is more information on fieldbus on the Fieldbus Homepage
by William Zeng of the Dept of Electronics of the Swedish Royal
Institute of Technology.
fieldbus.isa.org is the home page of the ISA's web community.
Miguel Angel Montejo Raez of Spain has an excellent web site (In Spanish) called Redes Industriales, which even if you have no Spanish is a joy in web page design - clear, concise
and to the point. Not all the links are to Spanish language sites. Here is another Spanish language fieldbus page mantained by Fondón Redes y Fluidos, SA.
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