Abstract
The ISA-SP550 Field Bus draft standard offers new opportunities to configure multivendor systems for a variety of applications never before possible with distributed control systems. It is not yet clear how vendors will respond with new types of products, but users of process control equipment will be sure to benefit as the conventional functions of measurement, control, display, and actuations become interchangeable commodity products. Not only does the Field Bus draft standard normalize data communications at practical and cost-effective levels, but for the first time the functions of process control become defined with common terminology and interfaces. The mystery has been removed, freeing the user to concentrate on solving the process problems rather than the instrumentation problems. This paper presents the details of the process control applications layer standard so that users may begin to understand how to apply Field Bus solutions to common process control problems.
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