Extended fieldbus options for drives allow more flexible control

New fieldbus options provide drives’ users with fast, accurate control of processes as well as access to large amounts of data on how the process is behaving. Some of the latest variable-speed drives from ABB offer two option slots for fieldbus modules. These modules can be of different types, allowing, for example, a PROFIBUS module and an Ethernet module to be run at the same time. This allows the user to control a process with…