FieldComm Group (FCG)

Organization Overview

The FieldComm Group is a global standards-based organization consisting of leading process end users, manufacturers, universities and research organizations that work together to direct the development, incorporation and implementation of new and overlapping technologies and serves as the source for FDI technology. The FieldComm Group’s mission is to develop, manage and promote global standards for integrating digital devices into automation system architectures while protecting process-automation investments in HART and FOUNDATION Fieldbus communication technologies. Membership is open to anyone interested in the use of the technologies.

Position to OPC UA

Ted Masters, President and CEO – FieldComm Group
As process automation field devices as system have increased in complexity, device integration with automation systems has become cumbersome.
FieldComm Group and OPC Foundation worked together to create the FDI specification and information model for Field Devices based on the OPC UA specification, future systems and field devices that conform to the FDI standard will be dramatically simpler to configure, integrate, and maintain.