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About Foxboro
Foxboro
(Division of Invensys Process Systems)
33
Commercial Street
Foxboro,
MA 02035
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508 543 8750
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866 746-6477
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508 549 4999 (fax)
www.foxboro.com
Invensys Process Systems is an
organization within Invensys plc. Invensys
plc is a global leader in the automation and controls industry, supplying
tailored systems, solutions, and services to customers from a broad
spectrum of manufacturing and process control sectors.
Their product lines include flow and pressure instrumentation,
including vortex, magnetic, and Coriolis flowmeters.
Foxboro offers plant automation systems,
flowmeters, single-loop controllers, and a variety of product support
services.
Invensys
Process Systems applications, in general, are targeted at industry groups
within the process control sector of the manufacturing industry.
Their product brands
include Avantis (Enterprise Asset Management), Foxboro (industrial
automation, specifically the I/A Series and Foxboro A2 system
and associated services, as well as instruments, transmitters, and SCADA),
SimSci-Esscor (simulations and optimization), Triconex (safety systems),
Wonderware HMI and plant intelligence solutions.
Invensys claims that their product brand teams deliver the most
comprehensive mix available to the manufacturing market today.
The company also offers level,
pressure, and temperature instruments as well as a nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) based process analyzer designed for refinery,
petrochemical, food processing, and pulp and paper operations.
History
The Foxboro Company was founded
in Foxboro, Massachusetts in 1908, and was acquired by Siebe plc of
Windsor, UK, in 1990. In
1999, Siebe merged with BTR to form Invensys plc.
Foxboro is a brand under Invensys Systems, Inc.
Products
Foxboro is a broad-line
supplier of instrumentation, and has a long-term reputation.
In addition to its line of instrumentation products, the company is
also famous for its I/A series, a distributed control system (DCS) that
was introduced in 1987. Foxboro
has a proprietary protocol it calls FoxCom, although now many of its
instrumentation products are delivered with the HART protocol.
For
more information on Foxboro, go to www.flowresearch.com.
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