Foundation Fieldbus has developed standards that will enable process instrument manufacturers to mix and match, products manufactured by various manufacturers, while retaining their 4-20mA analog systems as it is. In short interoperability between various manufacturers is what is all about when they are connected in a network. This enables the operators to acquire field data from various plant control instruments and prepare archival, process trends, optimisation, and prepare health reports etc. This is because the field control instruments are made more intelligent by local microprocessors and pass, on-line data and messages to Fieldbus network. Thus it provides inputs for faster decision making. Fieldbus uses existing wiring and multi-drop connections, makes life lot easier when they are networked. Foundation Fieldbus training kit provides insight into this new generation instrumentation.
Foundation Fieldbus training kit is intended to study experiment and understand the concepts used in Foundation Fieldbus (FBUS) standards, while developing Foundation Fieldbus systems. The training kit consists of power supply, necessary components, cabling, connectors and devices. Useful for Instrumentation and control engineering students, electronics and communication engineers, plant operating trainees, system developers, and computer engineers.

Specifications:
Field bus HOST KIT Fieldbus Device Kit
Hardware Hardware
Fieldbus host kit 2 HI Fieldbus Round cards
ISA or PC Card interface board 2 AT-FBUS (ISA) interface boards
Optional device simulator Software
Software Communications stack
NI-FBUS Communications manager NI-FBUS Function block shell
NI-FBUS Configurator NI-FBUS Configurator
Lookout software with a Foundation Field bus driver NI-FBUS Monitor
Power supply and cabling. Power Supply and cabling.
Detailed information and specifications for the above products can be sent on request.