Market leader for measuring instruments in the process industry
Optimizing the maintenance and monitoring of field devices through seamless connectivity using smart tablets/smartphones
Background
- Global leader in industrial process engineering measurement instruments, services and solutions
- Designs and produces field instruments to monitor flow, level, pressure, temperature and analyze liquids
- More than 15,000 employees worldwide
- Expertise in chemical, food & beverage, life sciences, mining, power & energy, minerals & metals, oil & gas, and water & wastewater industries
Business need
- Improve the maintenance and monitoring of field devices
- Establish seamless connectivity to enable use of mobile devices like tablets and smartphones for monitoring
- The devices to be used should be suitable for any industrial environment
Technical Requirements
- Bluetooth connection to the smartphones/tablets
- Support for communication protocols HART, Profibus PA and Foundation Fieldbus
- Suitable for non Ex, Ex zone 2 and Ex zone 1 areas
- Stable communication between the field device and the tablet
- Softing’s mobiLink mobile & USB interface offered as a part of the bundle with smartphones or tablets for mobile asset management of field devices
- Organization supplied the mobiLink devices in chemical, food beverage and water & wastewater industries across Europe, Americas, Asia and Africa
- One mobile and USB interface for HART, PROFIBUS PA and FOUNDATION Fieldbus communication protocols
- Diagnostics, Condition Monitoring & Parameterization, and configuration of field devices
- Suitable for use in hazardous areas
- Compatible with FDT Frame Applications
- Softing‘s mobiLink device is the only device to cover all the protocols
