Press releases

Industrial Automation Networks Inc. Joins the FDT Group

Engineering consultant seeks to expand business by collaborating with the FDT
Group

Suppliers unified for field device integration

To accelerate deployment of the Field Device Integration (FDI) technology, key process automation suppliers agreed to enlarge the scope of the EDDL Cooperation Team and will become the FDI Cooperation.

This cooperation will initially consist of the associations: FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communications Foundation, OPC Foundation and PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation, as well as the companies ABB, Emerson, Endress+Hauser, Honeywell, Invensys, Siemens, and Yokogawa.

New Managing Director and new Press Responsible

glenn  schulz_small.pngBrussels, June 24, 2009: The FDT Group Board of Directors announces that Flavio Tolfo, the Managing Director of the group for the last three years will take his retirement as of July 1, 2009. After establishing the FDT Group in 2006 in the organizational structure we have, Flavio was a key contributor to establish the FDT Group into what it is today.

FDT Technology Gains IEC International Standard Approval

IEC Approval Validates the Mission of the FDT Group to Provide Standardized Easy-to-Deploy Field Interface Solutions for the Automation Industry

FDI Project Team Achieves Development Milestones

The Steering Committee of the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) Cooperation Team (ECT) announces that its technical team has achieved important milestones as it develops a common solution for field device integration (FDI). The FDI project team worked the past 18 months to identify use cases encompassing all facets of plant operations: from start up and commissioning; to ongoing maintenance activities and plant operations.

The FDT2.0 Project

The FDT2.0 project will incorporate increasing device capabilities with latest advances in technology.