Micro and nono Technology is an emerging technological infrastructure and process that involves manufacturing of products and systems at the micro and nono scale levels. Development of micro and nano scale products and systems are underway due to the reason that they are faster, accurate and less expensive. Moreover, the basic functuinal units of such systems posses remarkable mechanical, electronic and chemical properties compared to the macro-scale counterparts. Since this infrastructure has already becoming the prefered choice for the design and developmet of next generation products and...

Fieldbus Technology (FT), an enabling platform has already emerged in order to cater the need for sophisticated and flexible control and as a matter of fact it has becoming the preferred choice for the next generation real-time automation and control solutions. This book incorporates a selection of research and development papers. Its scope is on history and background, contemporary standards, underlying architecture, comparison between different Fieldbus systems, applications, latest innovations, new trends as well as on compatibility, interoperability, and interchangeability.