Powerful instrument management software is being widely adopted by the process industry to provide detailed process and maintenance information for a broad range of HART field devices.

The online access to the information contained within HART devices allows users to diagnose field device troubles before they lead to costly problems. Software such as AMS, PRM and FieldCare can capture and use diagnostic data from HART field instruments via the MTL HART connection hardware. This allows users to realise the full potential of their field devices to optimise plant assets, which results in significant operations improvement and direct maintenance savings.

For communication with those software packages that are based on the FDT technology a Communications DTM is needed and can be downloaded free of charge. 

The MTL Generic Comms DTM (Device Type Manager) enables MTL HART connection systems to pass HART data to any Instrument Maintenance Software (IMS) packages utilising the FDT/DTM concept. Aimed at Instrument and Maintenance Engineers who wish to continue to save costs by utilising on-line HART data, the Comms DTM software is developed to the latest FDT specification v1.2.