You need plug-and-socket boxes to connect Foundation Fieldbus instruments to a spur or a home-run cable that has a plug-and-socket connection.
Smart Instrumentation supports active plug-and-socket junction boxes, that is, plug-and-socket junction boxes that require power supply. You can define the current consumption, open circuit voltage, and short-circuit protection for an active plug-and-socket junction box. When generating a segment validation report, the software takes these values into account when calculating the total segment current consumption and voltage drop for a particular segment.
You use the Plug-and-Socket Box Wizard to create the required plug-and-socket boxes or reconfigure the existing ones.
Plug-and-socket boxes can be device panels or junction boxes.