Introduction


Fieldbus Is certainly an enabling and even a critical technology combined with smart field devices, unleashes the otherwise hidden and unused information of the plant floor. Tremendously reduces downtimes and increases efficiency and reliability of manufacturing. But in order to get this dramatic efficiency, the Fieldbus is surely not the sole player. A number of applications and tools must be orchestrated to realize the overall promise of e-manufacturing. Data and event servers and historians, HMI, MES and asset management software along with advanced control and optimization tools are all part of this big picture. The logical question that arises here is the availability of some of these technologies even a decade ago. So what makes now different from those days? Apart from the enhancements of the platforms and deepening of the operational features of the tools, the answer to this question Iies in the introduction and evolution of interoperable and component based tools that break the boundaries of systems with nearly no effort from the part of system integrators that choose and combine the best available products on the market to give customers the best total value-adding solution. 

Solutions that coexist with others in the enterprise, thanks to last decade's enormous efforts, put on the development of automation standards such as FF, OPCJ EC 61499,588,595,MIMOSA along with IT world technologies of XML. Web services and many others. This exhibition is about the overall e-manufacturing technologies and solutions from intelligent sensors and actuators to expert decision support systems. We are looking forward to see world class, innovative firms in this realm to participate and make the 4th Fieldbus Exhibition a memorable technological and business event.

The role of Fieldbus in industry is to provide the following advantages for end-users :

 

  1. Man power savings

  2. Lowered cost of ownership

  3. Better performance

  4. Improved asset management

  5. Increased productivity

  6. Lowered operating costs

  7. Staying competitive

  8. Standardization of equipment

  9. Flexibility for expansion

  10. Vendor independence

  11. Commissioned time savings

  12. Wiring savings

  13. Availability of more data

  14. Lower panel /control room space

  15. Lowered cost of maintenance

  16. lower Inventory for spaces

We encourage companies to introduce new:

 

  • Instrumentation and control products

  • Fieldbus technologies such as HSE, Profinet and IDA

  • Advancements in the field of industrial networking such as new intrinsic safety concepts, redundancy, diagnostics features and device internet connectivity

  • Higher level (ERP, SCM and etc.) connectivity of control and automation systems

  • Communication technologies (e.g. switching hubs, wireless industrial connectivity)

  • Asset management tools

  • Plant historian and historical data client/server software

  •  Alarm and event management software and tools

  • Batch control software and tools

  • HMI software

  • Manufacturing execution systems software

  • Product life cycle management software

  • Device relationship management software and tools

  • Other enabling e-m