FOUNDATION FIELD BUS INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AND SYSTEM CONFIGURATION FOR EMERSON HOST

This report will generally discuss on the progress and basic Wlderstanding on
selected Final Year Project (FYP) title which is FOUNDATION Fieldbus
Interoperability Test (FFIT) and System Configuration for Emerson. Fieldbus is a
digital, two way communication link between controls where this technology will
replace the conventional 4-20mA standard. This project is concern with technical
verification and interoperability of FOUNDATION Fieldbus products involving the
ability of communication between different devices and host of different
manufacturer. The purpose of this project is to perform interoperability testing of
FOUNDATION Fieldbus system namely the basic test, stress test and diagnostic test.
The outcome of the tests is aimed to provide familiarization on the fieldbus system
for students, scientific researchers, engineers and also for industrial applications. The
whole project starts with knowledge gathering and theoretical studies on the related
subject. Three laboratory tests will be covered in the interoperability testing which are
basic interoperability test including operability and ease of maintenance, stress test
and diagnostic capability test of the system. Other than that, an excel calculation for
fieldbus design was also developed. The need of interoperability testing is to make
sure that the end-user in plant will not face any difficulties when using the vendor's
FOUNDATION Fieldbus products. The basic test was successfully conducted and the
overall result of this test has shown that the EMERSON host can communicate well
with all the tested devices from different vendors of E+H, FOXBORO and
HONEYWELL.