Shifting Into High Gear: Enhanced Offerings Extend Fisher-Rosemount's Lead in Process Control.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 1998--With the release of Version 3 of its DeltaV For other uses, see Delta-v (disambiguation). The DeltaV digital process control system and distributed control system is widely used in many industries around the world. (tm) scalable process automation system, Fisher-Rosemount today launched another salvo in its campaign to deliver the next generation of process management technology. The enhanced DeltaV system brings new capabilities to Fisher-Rosemount's breakthrough PlantWeb(tm) field-based architecture -- already the most advanced, most complete offering for managing manufacturing processes in industries such as chemicals, pulp & paper, oil & gas, power, pharmaceuticals, and food & beverages. Version 3 enhancements provide a 10-fold increase in the size and scope of projects the DeltaV system can address, greatly expanding the range of customer applications. Other key enhancements include advanced software for managing batch processes, direct connection with existing process automation systems, and a fully integrated capability to manage field devices using the new FOUNDATION fieldbus FOUNDATION fieldbus is an all-digital, serial, two-way communications system that serves as the base-level network in a plant or factory automation environment. Developed and administered by the Fieldbus Foundation. communication standard. "The DeltaV system is the only process automation system on the market that was designed from the start to take advantage of FOUNDATION fieldbus technology," said Mike Reitzel, vice president of marketing at Fisher-Rosemount Systems. "As a result, the DeltaV system is dramatically better than other systems in delivering value for our customers using FOUNDATION fieldbus technology. With PlantWeb architecture, we've documented wiring reductions of more than 90%, commissioning savings of more than 75%, and overall project paybacks of greater than five times cost." The new DeltaV capabilities complement Fisher-Rosemount's recently announced suite of devices using FOUNDATION fieldbus, including new measurement and analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. instruments from several Fisher-Rosemount divisions. "We are truly delivering the benefits of fieldbus," says John Berra, president of Fisher-Rosemount. "We've got the technology. We've got the products. And customers are anxious to get the added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
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