Open Access to Device Intelligence. Since 1998, FDT technology has offered both process & factory manufacturing industries a truly open solution for accessing device intelligence that is supplier, system and protocol independent. A complementary technology to all fieldbuses, FDT provides unparalleled access to basic device parametric data as well as advanced diagnostics and analysis.

IPS is the leader in adopting FDT and Enhanced Device Description technologies, providing you truly open technology, & superior asset & device management.  The most important potential benefit of fieldbus is better host software for device maintenance.  Until the FDT standard came along, interoperability of diagnostic software made by device vendors with device asset management environments made by the system vendor was impossible.   The first to use FDT technology for FF, valve diagnostic packages from Metso, FlowServe, and Foxboro-Eckardt simply install into our Field Device Manager environment.

The FDT standard offers a rich, standard development environment for device vendors and application providers to efficiently extend their expertise to users by allowing access to the most powerful features of the device. The FDT Group is a consortium of more than 50 leading automation vendors and users that have come together to further define, support and promote the FDT standard.