Industrial

Market leader for measuring instruments in the process industry

Optimizing the maintenance and monitoring of field devices through seamless connectivity using smart tablets/smartphones

 

Situation

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
 

Solution

  • 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
 

Benefits

  • Suitable for use in hazardous areas
  • Compatible with FDT Frame Applications
  • Softing‘s mobiLink device is the only device to cover all the protocols
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Softing Inc.

+1.865.251-5252

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