Posted February 22, 2002 New Products Invensys Releases Engineering Software Package Invensys Process Systems (Foxboro, Mass.; www.invensysips.com) introduced FoxCAE Version 5.0, a Windows-based engineering software package for the Foxboro I/A Series system. FoxCAE Version 5.0 supports FOUNDATION fieldbus H1 segments, providing a common engineering platform to configure control databases and associated FOUNDATION fieldbus devices. FoxCAE Version 5.0 also adds the productivity-boosting benefits of intelligent design studio functionality, which speeds and simplifies the configuration of most unit- and plant-level control strategies. The FoxCAE software supports the import of FOUNDATION fieldbus Device Descriptors and Tag Lists and the upload and download of H1 device configurations. This makes it easy to forward-engineer and automatically document a plantwide instrumentation database. FoxCAE Version 5.0 connects directly to the H1 segments via either an I/A Series Windows-based workstation or a FOUNDATION Fieldbus Interface Card installed in a standalone personal computer. Over the years, Foxboro control engineers have designed and implemented process control loops in a large number of the world's refineries, industrial plants, and mills. Typical control loops and strategies encountered in all these refineries, plants, and mills have been incorporated as control templates in FoxCAE Version 5.0. These templates, which comprise an intelligent design studio, automatically define the configuration for a control loop, provide fault settings for all parameters, assign tag numbers to all blocks and connections, and document the strategy. The Manufacturing Report © Copyright 2002 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Editorial Dept: tmr-editorial@lionhrtpub.com Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 2555 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 299, Atlanta, GA 30339 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com