这个问题设备集成策略欢迎您进入FDT®现代化面孔的首次公开发行，其中包含徽标的模块化修订，并提供了一个增强的网站，为FDT奠定了对自动化新时代的愿景。我们的新徽标是对我们丰富的遗产的致敬，但现在我们希望我们的热情和决心继续在IIOT / INDUSTRIE 4.0中发挥领导作用。
When our Board of Directors approved the new look and feel of the FDT Group, it backed the strategic direction with the approval of our largest ever R&D funding tranche for a single year focused on enabling a FDT/IIoT architecture supporting mobility, on-the-wire security, and comprehensive interoperability through an ecosystem of automation vendors providing tomorrow’s new adaptive manufacturing assets. The entire organization of nearly 200 volunteers is now aligning itself to this ambitious initiative.
我们的现代化形象准确地描述了我们在未来FDT平台中所设想的角色。在当前安装基础中，有成千上万的安装FDT/FRAMES™（既独立和嵌入在主要系统供应商工程系统中）和数千万的FDT/DTM™启用设备，FDT是智能互操作性的标准设备。另外，支持所有通用通信网络和许多专有协议的自适应骨干架构还可以为流程和工厂市场提供全面的集成模型。它提供了单个平台中所需的灵活性，以通过无数网络无缝隧道与最终设备进行透明通信。此功能是FDT在实现下一代行业中发挥的关键架构角色之一。
Later this month, watch for the release of several updated annexes (networks) that will support the latest version of the FDT standard. Annexes include the release of the ODVA Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) annex, network adaptations of ODVA’s media-independent CIP protocol including EtherNet/IP™, DeviceNet™, CompoNet™ and ControlNet.™ These updated annexes to the latest standard will allow new Frame Applications the advantage of network integration in stand-alone device management tools and other engineering systems.
Since 2011, the FDT Group and OPC Foundation have worked together on a technology initiative to provide greater access to critical information throughout the industrial enterprise. We are thrilled to publicly release the FDT/OPC UA annex. It will expand the FDT platform capability with enterprise wide access to this business intelligence. Our collaboration with the OPC Foundation to develop this off the shelf OPC UA capability within the Frame Application has been a model of industry cooperation. My thanks to Mr. Tom Burke of the OPC Foundation and our Managing Director, Glenn Schulz for providing the executive sponsorship to drive this partnership to a successful conclusion.
As significant as the OPC UA pairing is to the FDT platform, we are not stopping there. The FDT platform will now be further expanded to include support for mobile devices. This will include operating system agnostic support for standard browsers, fit for purpose apps, and general web services for any potential expansion. The prototyping for this phase of developments will begin in January.
To facilitate our commitment to standardize sensor to cloud integration, the new FDT architecture will be deployable as a cloud, fog, local server, or standalone platform allowing it to scale to suit the needs of a single facility for the entire enterprise. We will be working with the various IIoT initiatives around the world to ensure that our new architecture supports their emerging requirements. Our commercial material will refer to this new platform as FITS™ - an initialism for the FDT Industrial Internet of Things Server.
在我们的任务设置下，我们欢迎您在2016年11月22日至26日在SPS IPC Drives展览会上访问我们；第2厅，550号展位，我们将展示整个工业自动化市场的新外观和最新技术开发。我们将与FDT集成的混合应用程序一起展示完整的互操作性，包括多个协议，供应商和设备，使用啤酒厂中常见的控制系统和组件模拟酿造和装瓶应用程序。
我们还将演示FDT/OPC UA设备建模，移动性等。此外，我们将在11月23日11:30举行的新闻发布会上介绍我们的未来策略。rd.Members of the FDT Group board, OPC Foundation President and Executive Director Thomas Burke, and ODVA President and Executive Director凯瑟琳·沃斯（Katherine Voss）将在那里进行激动人心的新公告。
I invite other companies and organizations that are interested in participating in this fast-paced industry collaboration to join the FDT Group and bring your unique industry perspective and requirements to the table. In an open standards body, your scope of influence can range from technical committee participation to setting and driving the strategy at the Board level.
In closing, allow me to bid a fond farewell to our long time office manager, Katrien Peeters. In many ways, Katrien was the pulse of the FDT Group as she supported all facets of the FDT Group business operations over the past 10 years. I wish Katrien the best with her expanding family and future business ventures. We will announce a replacement in the near future. Meanwhile, please contact our Managing Director, Glenn Schulz, for any of your business office support needs.
- FDT董事会主席Lee Lane
