Chinese Industry Reaping Fieldbus Benefits

摘要

Users and engineering firms share best practices at the Fieldbus Foundation's General Assembly in Shanghai. China's enormous investments in manufacturing and energy infrastructure over the past 20 years have taught its engineers some important lessons. Indeed, even as the construction of refineries, smelters, power plants and petrochemical facilities continues at a world-leading pace, a new focus on resources and the environment has begun to shape the country's manufacturing policies, according to keynote speaker Lin Rong, vice chief engineer for engineering firm Sinopec SEI. An important contributor to new industrial facilities that are cleaner, safer and more efficient is the use of digital communication technologies such as Foundation fieldbus, Lin said in his keynote address to the Fieldbus Foundation 2013 General Assembly, March 12-14, in Shanghai. "Foundation technology has changed the future of industrial automation, including the design mode of control systems," Lin said.