Rich Timoney, President & CEO - Fieldbus Foundation, reviews the last 20 years of the Fieldbus Foundation from acceptance to today's advancements.

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Fieldbus Foundation

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• Fieldbus Foundation has reached many major milestones over the
last 20 years
• FOUNDATION™ fieldbus has an accelerating rate of global adoption
• Major installations are found in the oil & gas, petrochemical, power,
paper, pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries
• Sales of fieldbus-based products are a growing portion of automation
industry business
Two Decades of Progress

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• Path to developing FOUNDATION fieldbus technology originally
began in the 1970s
• Control system suppliers attempted to distribute automation
functionality to the field
• Introduction of the Distributed Control System
(DCS) allowed distribution of intelligent control
throughout industrial plants
Origins of the Technology

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• Controls manufacturers, end users, academic institutions and
others collaborated on an international, interoperable
fieldbus standard
• Open digital communication protocol for field devices was needed
to replace competing, proprietary solutions
• Fieldbus Foundation was established in 1994, leading to
unprecedented levels of
system and device
interoperability for
process automation
Origins of the Technology (Cont’d)

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• FOUNDATION fieldbus provides a managed, fully-integrated
automation infrastructure for operational excellence
• View plant operations in high definition
• Manage information effectively
• Optimize people, processes and technology
Reasons for Industry Adoption

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• FOUNDATION fieldbus solution enables a new level of asset
management effectiveness
• Reduce operating costs
• Drive a new level of business performance
Reasons for Industry Adoption (Cont’d)

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• FOUNDATION fieldbus accounted for approximately 74% of the total
process fieldbus market in 2011
• Total sales of $1.3 billion USD
• Growing faster than the overall control and instrumentation market
Growth of the Market

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• Fieldbus Foundation has now tested and registered 577 unique
fieldbus products, with more than 900 total registrations
• Approximately 2 million field devices now in service
• More than 20,000 systems installed worldwide
Growth of the Market (Cont’d)

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• FOUNDATION technology has become the all-digital standard for
major Greenfield and modernization projects
• Reliance Jamnagar Refinery
• Shanghai SECCO Refinery
• CSPC Nanhai Refinery
• NAM Groningen Gas Field
• Shell Pearl GTL
• Drax Power Plant
Growth of the Market (Cont’d)

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Usability Project
• Make digital fieldbus solutions easier to use than conventional
analog systems
• Enable plant owners to focus on what technology can do for them and
their business, versus how it is managed
• Simplify development of new
fieldbus-based products
and applications
Latest Initiatives

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Field Device Integration (FDI)
• Leading industry organizations are seeking a unified approach to FDI
for simple and complex devices
• FDI solution encompasses tasks ranging from device configuration to
commissioning, diagnostics
and calibration
• FDI Cooperation specification
and developer tools are
now available
Latest Initiatives (Cont’d)

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FOUNDATION for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF)
• Extends fieldbus benefits into plant safety systems
• Meets the requirements of IEC 61508 for functional safety of
electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related
systems up to SIL 3
• Supports systems per IEC 61511, covering SIF functional safety in
the process industries
Latest Initiatives (Cont’d)

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FOUNDATION for Remote Operations Management (ROM)
• Established a single digital infrastructure for asset management in
remote applications
• Enables fieldbus connectivity to remote I/O and the leading industrial
wireless protocols, including WirelessHART®
and ISA 100.11a
• Provides interface to wireless technologies using EDDL and function
blocks for interoperability
with ROM devices
Latest Initiatives (Cont’d)

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Greater Support for the Automation Industry
• Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation have
entered into discussions on a potential merger
• Single industry foundation would meet the needs of intelligent device
communications in the world of process automation
• Combined resources would
provide significant benefits to
both automation end users
and suppliers
Looking to the Future