News + Press releases + Trainings
20/07/2010
Industrial Automation Networks Inc. Joins the FDT Group
Engineering consultant seeks to expand business by collaborating with the FDT
Group
27/03/2010
Workshops offered by M&M Software GmbH, Germany
March 17th until March 19th , 2009
June 16th until June 18th, 2009
October 12th until October 14th, 2009
Each with
1st day FDT Introduction / Basics
2nd day FDT Technology Seminar
04/02/2010
Endress+Hauser FieldCare first certified frame
FDT announces the release of the FDT frameINSPECTOR tool for the certification of frame applications to the FDT standard. Immediately following the release of the tool, the FDT Group announced the first certified frame application: FieldCare by Endress+Hauser. Glenn Schulz, the Managing Director of FDT Group, observed "It is only fitting that a long time sponsor of FDT Group activities be the first to certify a frame application using our new tool.
18/11/2009
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.
24/06/2009
International Standard
IEC Standard Guarantees OpennessThe FDT Group AISBL proudly announces that the FDT specification unanimously passed the vote of the international standardization community represented by 26 national committees to become an International IEC Standard - IEC 62453.
In general, there are different motives for standardization. These include:
22/06/2009
New Managing Director and new Press Responsible
Brussels, 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.
21/06/2009
New Press & Communication Responsibe
The FDT Group is happy to announce that Sandra Wagner from ifak system GmbH in Magdeburg, Germany is the new press responsible of the FDT Group.
21/06/2009
New Managing Director
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.
The new managing Director will be Glenn Schulz.
18/06/2009
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
11/05/2009
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.
