25 Jul
2005
25 Jul
'05
2 p.m.
Foxboro is an old very large control and instrumentation company located
of all places, Foxboro, MA. Back in the old pneumatic control days
until the mid to late 1980's Foxboro was the gold standard of
instruments in a process industry. They have always had a reputation of
being very proud of their products. They are now part of Invensys along
with Robertshaw and some other old line instrument makers.
http://www.foxboro.com/us/eng/Homepage Anything Foxboro produced will
be highly propertiery and information will be hard to find outside of
Foxboro or a plant that happens to own the equipment.
I worked in vegetable oil refining for almost 30 years as a electrical
and control contractor. I still have dreams of those old plants.
James
Brent Hilpert wrote:
I don't know a lot about Foxboro, I believe they were a spin-off or startup
company in the 60s that were early entrants into the (then small and
state-of-the-art) area of computer-based real-time process-control for large
industrial plants. They are one of those names you don't run across much unless
you run in those circles.
Additional comments about Foxboro and their systems from those who may know
more appreciated.
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