End-user demands for easier integration of automation and control devices across industrial networks have been generating a great deal of response from the automation industry over the past few years. As an example of recent industry cooperation along these lines,see this article for details around recent OPC UA interoperability partnerships with FDT Group, ODVA, PLCOpen and MTConnect.
Now comes news that five automation foundations — FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, Hart Communication Foundation, Profibus and Profinet International, and OPC Foundation — have developed an organization though which to cooperate on finalizing a single common solution for Field Device Integration (FDI). By combining their efforts to form a joint company, named FDI Cooperation LLC, the new organization will:
