艾默生And Siemens To Expand Interface Support

The companies will exchange technology and engineering support to add the interfaces that extend their systems and software to offer customers expanded global interoperability and greater functionality. First products are expected to be available by mid-2007.

奥斯汀市的爱默生之间的合作,Texas, and Nuremberg, Germany-based Siemens A&D grew out of the work that both companies have done with user-supplier consortiums to deliver fully open and interoperable field instrumentation and electric drives using the newly enhanced global standard, Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL).

Siemens will add interfaces to the company’s Simatic PCS 7 process control system and its Process Device Manager (PDM) tool to support Foundation Fieldbus standards, in addition to the Profibus and Hart standards they support today. This will enable Siemens to connect to the extensive array of Foundation Fieldbus instruments and valve controllers from Emerson, as well as devices from other companies that support Foundation Fieldbus.

艾默生同样将扩展其Δ和ovation控制系统，以及公司的AMS套件：智能设备管理器应用程序，除了他们支持的基金会现场总线和HART标准之外，还有Profibus DP和Profinet标准的界面。这将使emerson能够连接到Siemens的广泛驱动器，电机启动器和其他离散设备，以及支持PROFIBUS DP和PROFINET的其他公司的设备。

Global standards

“基金会现场总线是艾默生流程管理总裁的John Berra评论道John Berra评论道。“在制造自动化中，特别是在电动驱动器中，PROFIBUS DP和PROFINET是既定的标准。添加新的现场总线接口将使Emerson能够使用增强型EDDL来轻松地将Siemens驱动器的丰富功能连接到我们的AMS设备管理器和我们的自动化系统。以这种方式将我们的资产管理应用程序的价值扩展到更多植物资产只是对全球标准客户的利益的一个示例。“

根据西门子A＆D的董事会成员的说法，委员会的董事会成员，进一步统一现场设备集成，尤其是在异构系统景观中的有利。“基金会现场总线，HART和PROFIBUS已成为全球的沟通标准。用户可以选择具有界面的各种过程仪器，以适应有关控制系统。然而，提高工厂效率的可能性在于统一EDDL通信技术和各个软件工具进一步集成。我们强烈支持此类活动。“

艾默生and Siemens will also use in their host systems the pending OPC UA (OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture) standard from the OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org）。现场总线基金会，HART通信基础和Profibus Nutzeroration建议使用EDDL和OPC UA的组合。

这种技术的优点y is the consistent use of EDDL for data description and presentation to the user interface. EDDL is also used to describe the information exchange between any OPC server and OPC client applications, thereby attaining a major degree of independence from operating systems and their variants. Both companies will actively support development of the necessary OPC UA specifications and the enhancements of EDDL.