Welcome to the Fieldbus Reference List, now entering its sixth year
in existence since I started this webpage which is now collecting
more than 1000 hits per month.

New since this month is an extensive comparison of
the Profibus, Interbus, AS-Interface and Industrial Ethernet
systems. Until now, other comparisons did not go further
than about 10 properties (to make it fit snugly on 1 A4). 
But this is hardly sufficient in case one needs to make
a proper comparison. That is why I started with these
four systems, now spread out over 3.5 A4 in a small font!

Read it for yourself at buscomparison.pdf
Please let me know in case you'd like to have more
systems added, or more details added (vendors or
publishers note: contact me first for any non-personal use!).

On the remainder of this site you'll find the world's
largest set of references to fieldbus systems
and industrial networks; the count has been steadily
growing to some 400 systems, for 280 of those references
are available and for 120 not. Also you'll find references
to almost 120 books, dozens of international standards, and
scores of user groups, vendor associations and trade groups.
Often illegally copied, republished without due credit, or
used in other's fieldbus collection lists, this is definitely
the starting point for anyone interested in this technology.
And another major plus: no ads! I don't sell anything
(except my own seminars on this subject of course :-).



Start here for the Fieldbus Reference List, or at the
left for a quick jump if you know the starting letter
of the name. In case you still haven't found what you need,
search the Usenet news-archives Or try www.google.com  
which I have found to be search-engine that returns the 
most useful results. If this didn't help too, it is probably
not available via the WWW :-( Russian readers can also
use the bootleg copy of my list at DataMicro. A Spanish
bootleg copy under somebody's own name is at
http://diea-gw.diea.ulpgc.es/users/aurelio/int-equipos/buses_campo.html

Rob Hulsebos (remove the "NOSPAM" before sending)

Date: 4-Apr-2005