Softing North America is pleased to announce Professional Control Corporation (PCC) as a new Authorized Distributor for its premium line of diagnostic and troubleshooting tools for PROFIBUS networks.

Softing North America is pleased to announce AWC Inc. as a new Authorized Distributor for its premium line of diagnostic and troubleshooting tools for PROFIBUS networks.

Softing’s Fieldbus Kit 2 (FBK-2) is an industry-hardened, yet economical off-the-shelf communication board for the rapid development of FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1 and PROFIBUS PA field devices for Intrinsically Safe (IS) and non-Intrinsically Safe environments.

Softing, the world leader in providing conformant OPC development tools, continues to enhance its OPC Unified Architecture (UA) Toolkits. The latest version of the OPC UA Toolkit set supports the following operating systems out-of-the-box: Windows, VxWorks, and Linux. With more than 1,600 companies relying on Softing’s OPC development kits to generate thousands of compliant OPC products, Softing holds the lion’s share of the world-market for OPC development tools. Today, a rapidly growing number of these companies are adopting Softing’s reliable and easy-to-use OPC UA Toolkits.

Softing, the world leader in PROFIBUS diagnostic solutions, has announced its new unified PROFIBUS Diagnostic Suite V2.02. The new software package has been redesigned from scratch to improve the all-important ease-of-use aspect of the software while at the same time preserving the more in-depth diagnostic features required by networking experts. One powerful new feature of the software is its "Quick-Test" button. With a single mouse click a user is able to initiate a full analysis of a PROFIBUS network including electrical signal and protocol analysis. Please feel free to download this new software package from our web page to update your existing diagnostic toolset.

Softing’s PROFIBUS boards are globally used in a wide range of applications including compact slave solutions, solutions for mobile devices, operation and visualization terminals, real-time machine controls, and extended temperature-range applications. On request, Softing’s experienced development team will rapidly modify the interface board hardware and/or protocol software to specific customer requirements.

For more than 20 years Germany’s largest helium cooling system operated reliably with a traditional centralized process control system. Rising maintenance costs for this aging system lead to the decision to modernize the system with a process control concept that relies on a decentralized I/O system over PROFIBUS and on a high-availability concept based on system redundancy. Softing’s enhanced PROFIBUS protocol software provided the foundation for achieving the redundancy concept with PROFIBUS by guaranteeing an instantaneous and bump-less switchover of all connected I/O devices.