Emerson Adds Foundation Fieldbus to Brooks® Mass Flow Meters, Controllers, and Pressure Products
HATFIELD, PENN (November 28, 2007) - Emerson Process Management announces FOUNDATION fieldbus I/O communications options for Brooks® Instrument thermal mass flow meters, mass flow controllers, and pressure controllers. FOUNDATION fieldbus is in growing in demand for the life sciences, chemical, petrochemical, and process industries. Brooks thermal mass flow controllers are the first and only devices of their kind to offer this important communications option.
FOUNDATION fieldbus is an all-digital, two-way communications technology for plant instrumentation. It enables devices to support better operations and maintenance through expanded access to diagnostics and other digital information. Other benefits include lower engineering and installation costs and optional device-based control-in-the-field.
The FOUNDATION fieldbus implementation in Brooks devices provides customers easy access to device tuning parameters, and many advanced diagnostic features including:
o Zero drift diagnostic
o Valve spring life detection
o Reverse and no flow conditions detection
o Calibration due reminder
The FOUNDATION fieldbus option is offered on the Brooks Instrument SLA5800 Series standard elastomer sealed mass flow meters, controllers, and pressure controllers, and the SLAMf Series IP65 / NEMA4X weather proof mass flow meters and controllers.
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, food and beverage, life sciences and other industries. Brooks Instrument (brooksinstrument.com) has supplied liquid and gas process control solutions to industries throughout the world. Brooks manufactures a complete line of flow measurement and control instrumentation including thermal mass, variable area, Coriolis, and positive displacement flowmeters, as well as a full line of supporting accessories. Brooks' technology and expertise play a key role in Emerson's combining of superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Emerson's brands include PlantWeb®, Brooks®, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Mobrey®, Bristol®, Daniel®, DeltaV(TM), Ovation®, and AMS(TM) Suite.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2007 were $22.6 billion. For more information, visit www.emerson.com.
Contact:
Christine Batycki
christine.batycki@brooksinstrument.com
