FDT Group, a non-profit industry association supporting FDT technology for industrial device management, announced certification of its first device-specific DTM (device type manager) based on the latest FDT 3.0 standard supporting the HART protocol. This device-specific DTM is used by Flowserve in its Logix 3820 Series digital positioner. The DTM is used in these positioners to support HART 6/7 versions for flow control in Industrial Internet of Things architectures.
The Logix 3800 Series is designed for use with linear and rotary valves and actuators. These positioners are intrinsically safe and feature a non-incendiary and explosion-proof design that can operate in temperatures from -52 °C to 85 °C (-62 °F to 185 °F).
The FDT Group explained that FDT DTM certification in the FDT 3.0 specification involves “rigorous compliance testing using dtmInspector5 to ensure the viability of the states of the DTM; its correct installation, de-installation and multi-user environment capability; mandatory and optional user interface functionality and robustness; network scanning communication performance and the ability to import and export the topology; and audit trail capability.”
FDT 3.0 DTMs are crucial to unlocking universal device integration with advantages such as platform independence, mobility applications and a contemporary development environment to reduce costs and expedite the DTM certification process, according to the FDT Group. With FDT 3.0 DTMs, the FDT Group said users can use secure seamless data exchange/interrogation from the sensor to the cloud and achieve new levels of IT and operations technology integration.
“Flowserve is proud to be the first vendor to offer a software-based webUI DTM based on FDT 3.0,” said Manjunath Atchutanna, global digital technology manager at Flowserve Corporation. A webUI is an interface that enables any web browser to be used a graphical user interface.
“Our new DTM meets modern use case challenges that extend standardized device management for valve control to mobile solutions and other higher-level applications using OPC UA, enabling service-oriented maintenance scenarios,” added Atchutanna.
“Flowserve has always been a leader in flow control using DTM technology and now offers the first flow control management DTM standardized for IIoT architectures based on FDT 3.0 for HART applications,” said Steve Biegacki, FDT Group managing director. “HART users can deploy this new DTM and reap the benefits by using an FDT 3.0-based device management tool, such as PACTware 6.1, and can enjoy an IT/OT data-centric model by deploying an FDT Server, extending the data reach to mobile applications and the enterprise.”
