“Innovation doesn’t come from one technology, one solution, or one person; instead, it’s a collaborative result of technologies, solutions and people working together with an innovative mindset supporting a great mission,” said Glenn Schulz, FDT Group managing director. “That’s just what our organization and collaborative technology standard does, and what our video demonstrates. FDT’s secure, data-centric platform runs behind the scenes at the core of any automation architecture, harmonizing technologies, solutions and people for today’s infrastructure and tomorrow’s intelligent enterprise.”
FDT 3.0 Server- and FDT 3.0 DTM-based architectures are designed to unlock open automation transformation securely by employing a natively integrated OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Server for enterprise access to IT/OT real-time device data and a web server mobilizing field device operation with browser access for modern asset management practices. FDT 3.0 Desktop environments ensure backward-compatibility, allowing the industry to freely mix and match different generations of DTMs and other device representations utilizing familiar, user-friendly device management interfaces. The standard employs robust, multi-layered security to safeguard critical automation information and operating data.
With the updated FDT 3.0 standard, the FDT solution has become platform-independent by transitioning the fundamental technology on which it is built from the Windows-based .NET framework to an open .NET Core, as well as HTML5 and JavaScript. The use of these underlying technologies allows FDT to empower the intelligent enterprise with business models supporting the new era of automation.
