Overview
Field Device Manager user interface and diagnostic capabilities let you increase uptime and performance — while significantly lowering your maintenance costs. Embedded within Foxboro control software, this toolset provides a comprehensive, fully integrated engineering and maintenance environment for your field devices and instruments.
Features
For maintenance technicians and engineers
- Operates with any automation system device, from any vendor, using any protocol
- Support for FDT and Enhanced EDDL to enable device vendors to program device configuration and maintenance content for the host system
- Reusable engineering via customizable templates for each device model
- Commissioning wizard automates all device commissioning steps
Benefits
- Lowest total cost of ownership via truly open technology
- Unmatched device configuration, commissioning and diagnostic support
- Simplified engineering and increased productivity
- Reduced downtime; no more wasted maintenance
- Predictive device maintenance approach helps spot problems early, before they become severe
Applications
- Hydrocarbon processing
- Chemical and specialty chemicals
- Upstream oil and gas
- Power generation
- Metals and mining
- Water and wastewater
- Pharmaceutical and life sciences