Operating Tools

Modern Field Communication and Operating Tools have to comply with several customer requests today. The key request is to increase profitability. In the area of process automation this directly leads to

	Easy planning, installation and start up of a new plant.
	Improved control.
	Less / No downtime of the plant.

For field measurement suppliers this means producing devices with validated measurement and status information. More and more functionality can be performed at the source of the information ? at the measurement device itself. In order to handle all these requirements a communication interface is necessary and a universal operating tool should be able to handle all the information.