Re: [foxboro] FBM232 Modbus Setup Issues

  • From: Ken Heywood <KHeywood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "<foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 17:03:49 +0000

My old brain ... It was Phil Bessler who went to Modicon after the plane crash.

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On Mar 7, 2015, at 11:17 AM, "Ken Heywood" 
<KHeywood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dick Morley founded Bedford Associates in 1968 in Bedford Massachusetts,
> just ³up the road² from Foxboro. The ³084² was the result of a request
> from GM for an electronic replacement for relay logic. Several top
> executives from ³Modicon² were killed in a plane crash in the early
> 1970¹s. Paul Bissette(?) and a few other Foxboro managers/engineers went
> to Bedford to help the company through the loss. That¹s about as close as
> the ties became between the two companies.
> On 3/6/15, 2:44 PM, "Terry Doucet" <doucet427@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I think that there were two engineers working for Foxboro who came up
>> with the idea of a programmable logic controller and left to form Modicon.
>> 
>> 
>>> From: paul.mcquaid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:25:54 -0600
>>> Subject: Re: [foxboro] FBM232 Modbus Setup Issues
>>> 
>>> True...... The fable, as told to me was that Modicon, now part of
>>> Schneider electric - Process automation by the way, originally had this
>>> as a proprietaryprotocol hence the JBUS development but they (Modicon)
>>> relinquished that status and it became an industry open standard, the
>>> rest they say is history.......
>>> 
>>> Best Regards
>>> 
>>> Paul McQuaid
>>> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> Ken Heywood
> Calibration Laboratory Manager
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