Endress+Hauser increases commitment to ODVA.
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ODVA announced that Endress+Hauser, one of world's leading suppliers of measurement and automation equipment as well as solutions for process industries, will become a principal member, joining Bosch Rexroth, Cisco Systems, Rockwell Automation, Omron, and Schneider Electric. Endress+Hauser's increased participation in ODVA builds on its long-term support of open industrial networking technologies, including company's portfolio of mass flow meters designed for EtherNet/IP network.
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Endress+Hauser Increases Commitment to ODVA
Growing demand for EtherNet/IP devices in process automation
ANN ARBOR, Mich., - ODVA today announced that Endress+Hauser, one of the world's leading suppliers of measurement and automation equipment, as well as solutions for the process industries, will become a principal member, joining leading suppliers Bosch Rexroth, Cisco Systems, Rockwell Automation, Omron and Schneider Electric. Endress+Hauser's increased participation in ODVA builds on its long-term support of open industrial networking technologies, including the company's portfolio of mass flow meters designed for the EtherNet/IP network.
"ODVA is one of the world's largest consortiums advancing open, industrial networking standards through commercially-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and a media-independent network protocol," said Katherine Voss, executive director, ODVA. "We welcome Endress+Hauser in this consortium as we have a shared vision for leveraging EtherNet/IP to simplify an end user's network architecture."
With leading industrial automation suppliers, such as Endress+Hauser, as principal members, ODVA is one of the first associations that strives to support Industrial Ethernet down to the field level in process automation. This will help provide manufacturers with a complete, plantwide network infrastructure for process, motion, safety and discrete applications, and from plant-floor to IT systems.
Traditionally, devices measuring and controlling process variables rely on a field network to transfer information, while other devices within the plant use completely different networks for data communication. By replacing this complex multi-tier networking strategy with one standard network architecture, namely EtherNet/IP, users have a simplified network structure as well as better access to plant-floor information. This enhances the ability to monitor overall performance, troubleshoot out-of-margin conditions and minimize downtime.
"Our customers demand open, interoperable solutions, such as EtherNet/IP, as it enables higher-level software such as ERP systems, process historians, control loop tuning programs, and asset management systems to access data from process instrumentation," said Raimund Sommer, managing director of Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG. "We look forward to continue working through ODVA to help users achieve seamless integration of our instruments into system architectures."
Endress+Hauser made its first major commitment to ODVA technologies in 2009 when the company launched the Promass 83 - the world's first Coriolis mass flow meter with EtherNet/IP connectivity - capable of measuring mass flow, density and temperature, featuring an integrated Web Server that allows authorized users to remotely conduct diagnostics, configure the instrument or perform process optimization. The company also recently launched its Promag 53 Magnetic Inductive flow meter with EtherNet/IP connectivity. By using EtherNet/IP, up to 10 measured variables can be configured and transmitted including volume flow, calculated mass flow and totalized flow.
ODVA will introduce Endress+Hauser as a principal member at its 2012 Industry Conference and 15th Annual meeting, to be held Oct. 16-18, 2012, in Stone Mountain, Ga., USA. For more information about the ODVA event, visit www.odva.org.
About the Endress+Hauser Group
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. In 2010, the Group generated with over 8,500 employees worldwide net sales of 1.3 billion euros.
Structure
Company-owned sales centers and a network of partners guarantee competent worldwide support. Production centers in eleven countries meet customers' needs and requirements quickly and effectively. As a successful family-owned business, Endress+Hauser is set for continued independence and self-reliance in the future.
Products
Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement as well as liquid analysis and data acquisition. The company supports customers with solutions and services in automation engineering, logistics and information technology. Our products set standards in quality and technology.
Industries
Customers are primarily from the chemical/petrochemical, food & beverage, water/wastewater, life science, oil & gas, power & energy, renewable energies, primaries & metal, pulp & paper and shipbuilding industries. Endress+Hauser supports its customers to optimize their process engineering procedures while taking into consideration reliability, safety, economic efficiency and environmental protection.
History
Founded in 1953 by Georg H Endress (1924 - 2008) and Ludwig Hauser (1895 - 1975), Endress+Hauser has been solely owned by the Endress family since 1975. The company group, headed by Klaus Endress since 1995, has developed from being a specialist in level measurement to a provider of complete solutions for industrial measuring technology and automation, with constant expansion into new territories and markets.
About ODVA
Founded in 1995, ODVA is a global association whose members are comprised of the world's leading automation companies. ODVA's mission is to advance open, interoperable information and communication technologies in industrial automation. ODVA recognizes its media independent network protocol, the Common Industrial Protocol or "CIP" - and the network adaptations of CIP - EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet - as its core technology and the primary common interest of its membership. For future interoperability of production systems and the integration of the production systems with other systems, ODVA embraces the adoption of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and standard, unmodified Internet and Ethernet technologies as a guiding principle wherever possible. This principal is exemplified by EtherNet/IP - the world's number one industrial Ethernet network.
