Experion Pks Host Registration; Overview; New Features - Honeywell Series A User Manual

9. Experion PKS Host Registration

9.1

Overview

With R400, Experion PKS is a registered host with Foundation Fieldbus organization
(www.fieldbus.org). This registration process enables the users of Experion to benefit
from the additional features that are added as part of the registration.
The Foundation Fieldbus is Non-profitable organization
end users and automation
manufacturers, universities and research organizations work together to develop an
automation infrastructure that provides process integrity.

New features

The following new features are supported in EPKS R400.
Conditional evaluation support for Fieldbus function blocks in Control Builder
Support for EDDL (Electronic Device Description Language) and visualization
constructs
Support for Persistent Data Handling
As part of the Experion Host registration with FF, following is a complete list of features
supported by Experion.
Feature
Foundation H1 Device Support
H1 Device Address
Assignment
Configuration of Link
Master Devices
H1 Physical Device Tag
Assignment
Convert Link Master to
Basic Device
R400 Experion PKS Series A Fieldbus Interface Module User's Guide
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companies, Within the Fieldbus Foundation, end users,
Description
The capability of setting or clearing the H1 link address
of an FF device. Devices with cleared addresses
appear at available temporary addresses. They are
not actually set to those addresses.
The capability to prepare and write (Network
Management Information Bus) NMIB and (System
Management Information Bus) SMIB parameters
associated with link mastership.
The capability to set or clear the physical device tag of
an FF device.
The capability to change FF devices from Link Master
to Basic class.
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