FDT Group, an independent, international, not-for-profit industry standards association consisting of leading companies and organizations active in industrial automation and manufacturing, announced that Flowserve Corporation has joined the FDT Group leadership team.
Based in Irving, Texas, Flowserve has been a long-term member of FDT Group and a participant on the organization’s technical working groups and recently upgraded its membership to “Sponsor” status and assumed roles on both the FDT board of directors and executive committee. The company brings over 200 years of innovation focused on solving the flow control challenges for critical applications.
FDT Group Managing Director Glenn Schulz welcomed Ken Beatty, director of product engineering for Flowserve as FDT’s newest board member, and Ed Silva, R&D engineering manager for Flowserve assuming the executive committee role.
FDT Group’s goal is to drive continued developments in open, standardized, universal network/device integration and asset management, innovating the way automation architectures connect and communicate in process, hybrid and discrete manufacturing, including motion control applications. FDT membership offers unique advantages for the entire industrial automation industry, including end users, suppliers/developers, service providers, universities, and individuals. Members are involved with providing innovative FDT-enabled products, solutions and services, and can join working groups, technical project groups and marketing committees to help direct the technology. Sponsoring-level members are unique in that they have the opportunity to join the FDT leadership team, filling positions on both the board of directors and executive committee to lead the larger FDT mission. This includes empowering innovative business models with standardized, client-based, real-time-information-driven, service-oriented features optimizing automated processes and connectivity for the new era of industrial automation.
Flowserve joins long-time leading manufacturers on the FDT Group board of directors, including Yokogawa, Rockwell Automation, Endress+Hauser, Schneider Electric, and PACTware.
