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UPDATE #9

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In this issue:

• Economic new compact I/O modules offer ease-of-use
• Softstarter with integrated I/O offers diagnostic and control capability
• Ethernet processor added to PLC-5 controller family
• Add more flexibility and reliability
• Breakers and contactors ready for export to China
• Getting tough with power integrity
• Mini contactors and relays enhance modular control system range
• Broader Terminal Blocks offering allows better solutions
• Data collector for multiple applications suits all users
• New condition-monitoring modules expand predictive maintenance offering
• Fixed-time relay offers low-cost solution
• Greater safety for machine operators
• Extended operator protection for harsh environments
• Miniature proximity sensors are ideal where space is limited
• Flexible, cost effective, closed-loop speed and positional control
• Minotaur MRS300 Modular Monitoring Safety Relays

Software bundle helps users to manage processes effectively

Working together, global leaders Rockwell Automation, Endress+Hauser and Spectrum Controls have combined their core competencies to provide a wide range of pre-integrated, pre-tested, measurement, automation and information solutions based on global standards.

FieldCare software can provide users with many benefits, including: significant initial and annual savings; better decision-making; rapid troubleshooting; recognition of performance deterioration; remote diagnostics and reconfiguration; efficient planning and scheduling; and easy access to instrument information.

The FieldCare HART Configuration Bundle packages all of the software that plant and maintenance engineers need for effective asset management of HART field devices connected to ControlLogix or CompactLogix programmable automation controllers and Flex I/O from Rockwell Automation. It comprises Endress+Hauser FieldCare Plant Asset Management Software, Spectrum Controls CONNECTS software, Rockwell Automation RSLinx Professional Software and a one-year TechConnect support contract. It also includes the communication Device Type Management (DTM) programs and drivers users need to configure and manage HART instruments attached to Rockwell Automation’s Integrated Architecture.

Because FieldCare is based on the open Field Device Tool/Device Type Manager (FDT/DTM) standard, this bundle will allow users to configure and manage any HART device with a DTM. DTMs for all Endress+Hauser instruments are also included. The bundle can be simply loaded onto a PC that resides on the EtherNet/IP or ControlNet network and you’re ready to go. Users can configure, calibrate, tune, analyse and optimise HART devices connected to Spectrum Controls HART analogue I/O modules installed within ControlLogix and/or CompactLogix and/or Flex I/O and FlexEX-based process automation system.

HART-capable field instruments provide diagnostic and process control information. When connected to ControlLogix, CompactLogix, Flex I/O and FlexEX I/O modules with built-in HART communication, there is no need for extra hardware or wiring to access the HART data for use as part of a standard maintenance program.

HART I/O modules pass data to a ControlLogix or CompactLogix controller over the network and backplane, while at the same time, using RSLinx, the CONNECTS software passes HART data for use by FieldCare asset management software. As well as all HART data, the instrument also uses a conventional 4–20mA signal for the process variable complementing regular and digital I/O.