Do we have enough engineering skills for digital fieldbuses?

Ever wondered why it costs more to maintain plant instrumentation than it did to purchase it in the first place? PROFIBUS International (represented in South Africa by the Southern African Regional PROFIBUS Association (SARPA) announced at their 20th anniversary that there are now more than 30-million PROFIBUS nodes installed worldwide. Yet in South Africa we are seeing a trend to steer away from these technologies for instrumentation… (more)