Fieldbus Information Sites

This site provides a significant amount of technical documentation covering Siemens equipment, systems, and software. It also includes a link to downloads. For anyone wanting to prove a case for electronic documentation, this site is as extensive as any. One word of caution, be prepared to search and keep the search focused on the topic. After a few times into the site, users will find navigation to a specific topic is relatively easy.

The Australian FOUNDATION Fieldbus™ End Users Council
http://www.iceweb.com.au/ffeuca/index.htm

A page with links to related sites
http://www.iceweb.com.au/Instrument/fieldbus.htm

The official Fieldbus Foundation website
http://www.fieldbus.org

Artemis web site with fieldbus articles, and white papers on fiber, security and other bus related issues.
http://www.artemisnetworks.com

Industrial Automation Open Networking Alliance. Includes Eric Byres’ excellent PowerPoint presentation covering network troubleshooting. Also includes a lot of Ethernet topics
http://www.iaona.org

Fieldbus, Inc. site includes a Fieldbus Primer
http://www.fieldbusinc.com

PACTware’s site
PACTware is open source and available free of charge to members. Every member can use the software freely and develop it further. This is under the condition that the consortium can then present these further developments as open source. The consortium is the administrator of PACTware, and the development work is financed by the membership fees.
http://www.pactware.com/english/index.htm

Emerson Process Management, DeltaV site. Includes a variety of fieldbus, HMI, Instrumentation and Control, and data management links. Very large site and users are cautioned to stay focused on the topic they are researching. It is easy to get sidetracked in this site. (Not necessarily a bad thing, but may take more hours than were planned on the original search.
http://www.EasyDeltaV.com

The ARC Advisory Group. Very involved in studies surrounding future trends of instrumentation. Includes a registration form for obtaining more in depth data and information about busses, instrumentation topics, survey findings, etc. Most information on this site is geared towards selling in-depth reports.
http://www.arcweb.com/default.aspx

In the words of Rob Hulsebos “Welcome to the Fieldbus Reference List, now entering its third year in existence since I started this webpage which is now collecting more than 1000 hits per month.”
http://ourworld-top.cs.com/rahulsebos/index.htm

WorldFIP site
http://www.worldfip.org/

Well read primer to installing fieldbus physical layer components. The easy to read guide also covers I.S., FISCO and Foundation Fieldbus signal basics.
http://www.relcominc.com/fieldbus/fbtechinfo.htm
Also available from MTL/Relcom is an excellent technical guide on fiber installation at:
http://www.relcominc.com/carrier-band/cbappnotes.htm

Provides a somewhat newer bus comparison chart. A little difficult to work through, but the data is there for those with the fortitude.
http://www.synergetic.com/compare.htm

This is the official site of the UK's AS-interface user group and contains significant information related to that bus as well as a few others.
http://www.as-interface.com/

Rockwell Automation's DeviceNet description page that includes a link to its informative DeviceNet FAQ page.
http://www.ab.com/networks/devicenet.html

This PAControl website covers topics related to Process Automation and Control including Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, AS-Interface, DeviceNet, DCSs, PLCs, HMIs, OPC, SIS, and more.
http://www.pacontrol.com/index.html

Interesting paper on FISCO and FNICO, written by P.R. Saward, MTL Instruments 11/1/2003 and reprinted from from a Control Engineering issue that is made available though Fieldbus Diagnostics (located in Austin Tx.) WOW! is this whole information thing on the web getting interesting or what?
http://www.manufacturing.net/CTL/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA333072

From GridConnect (formerly Synergetic), a comparison of several fieldbuses. The site includes text overviews and AUDIO interviews from each organization's director. (You can listen to while you drive down the road to the next fieldbus meeting.)
http://128.121.135.22/education/index.html

National Instrument's 67 page overview of Foundation Fieldbus. It contains many of the same topics found in other guides, but also gives a different treatment to some of those topics. This is very useful for those who have read the standards and other guides and want a different description or explination.
http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/370729a.pdf

Turk-Interlink's video on intrnisic saftey. Produced in 1992, this is still a good introduction for those unfamiliar with I.S. Great live demonstrations.
http://www.turck-usa.com/Support/Training_~_Educational/

Yokogawa's fieldbus page with links to their and other guides and descriptors. Some of the guides include rather good explinations of LAS-related settings.
http://www.yokogawa.com/fbs/fbs-index.htm

NAICS - (NettedAutomation GmbH Information and Communications Systems) site with copious links to fieldbus information.  This Germany based site states its purpose is to bring people and automation together.
http://www.nettedautomation.com/about_us/index.html

Pepperl+Fuchs link containing wiring information and white papers mostly.  Coverage includes High Power Trunk concepts.  A rather nice set of oscilloscope shots shows what happens to the signal when variety of segment errors are introduced.
http://www.pfsolutions.info/FieldConnex/literature.asp