Design Software validates Fieldbus and Profibus PA segments.
Press Release Summary:
With Segment Checker v1.20, users can intuitively check operational parameters to validate fieldbus segment architecture. Users can also display, archive, and print entire design, import field devices from library, or create new devices with Device Editor feature. Additionally, projects can be exported in graphic format for use in different media. Version 1.20 includes FieldConnex fieldbus products as well as calculations for fieldbarriers used in High Power Trunk method.
Original Press Release:
Quickly and Easily Validate Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA Segments with Segment Checker Design Software from Pepperl+Fuchs
V 1.20 features new products, enhanced calculations, and project-export functionality to further simplify fieldbus design and validation
TWINSBURG, OH -Pepperl+Fuchs introduces Segment Checker version 1.20. Segment Checker is a unique and easy-to-use tool for validating the design of all Foundation fieldbus and Profibus PA segments, even in hazardous areas. Users simply drag and drop components into the project window, and edit the attributes to build a fieldbus segment. New to version 1.20 are the latest FieldConnex fieldbus products and enhanced calculations for fieldbarriers used in the High Power Trunk method. Additionally, Segment Checker 1.20 allows users to export a project in a graphic format for use in different media.
"Segment Checker automatically calculates the voltage drop and load current on a fieldbus segment for any given configuration. The user simply chooses the explosion protection method such as FISCO, Entity, FNICO and High Power Trunk, or the safe area, and segment design error checking makes clear whether the desired configuration is workable," says Brian Traczyk, Product Manager, Pepperl+Fuchs.
Segment Checker allows users to intuitively check operational parameters to validate fieldbus segment architecture. It also allows users to display, archive and print an entire design, and import field devices from a library, or create new devices with the "device editor" feature. Additionally, users click on a device for direct access to the most up-to-date technical and product information on the Pepperl+Fuchs website. Cables can be tagged and attributes defined by the user. Spur cable length can also be set to a defined number, eliminating repetitive editing in larger projects.
To view a demonstration of the program and download the complete software tool for free visit www.SegmentChecker.com. Device libraries for many of the major suppliers can be downloaded as well. Segment Checker is compatible with Microsoft Windows® Vista and Windows® 7.
About Pepperl+Fuchs
With over 4,000 employees in more than 30 countries, Pepperl+Fuchs is a world leader in the design, manufacture, application and support of a broad range of robust solutions to varied process automation markets and applications. Pepperl+Fuchs is the market leader for intrinsic safety interfaces and hazardous location equipment, and also specializes in fieldbus, HART interfacing, purge and pressurization, surge suppression, power supplies, remote I/O, signal conditioning, industrial HMI displays and interfaces, electromechanical equipment, level sensing and corrosion monitoring solutions.
A 2010 Control and Control Design Reader's Choice Award winner for intrinsic safety equipment and purge & pressurization systems, Pepperl+Fuchs has also been named by Control magazine and the ARC Advisory Group as one of the Top 50 Global Automation Companies.
Pepperl+Fuchs, 1600 Enterprise Parkway, Twinsburg, OH 44087; (330) 486-0002; fax: (330) 425-4607; pa-info@us.pepperl-fuchs.com; pepperl-fuchs.us; www.segmentchecker.com.
