Method and device for managing and configuring field devices in an automation installation

US10031504B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ABB Schweiz AG · CH

Inventors

• Dirk Wagener · Stadthagen, DE
• Christoph Welte · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Marcus Heege · Kaisersesch, DE
• Wolfgang Mahnke · Hettenleidelheim, DE
• Marko Schlueter · Espelkamp, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 3, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method/device for managing/configuring field devices in an automation installation with a configuration tool designed to physically identify a field device therein, to logically incorporate it into, and configure it in, the automation installation, wherein the configuration tool to uses a prescribed field-device-type-specific information package describing functions and data of the field device at least partially and wherein the configuration tool has a server and a client, the server being designed to integrate received configuration data with the field-device-type-specific information package into an information package and to validate and process the information package with a piece of validation logic, and the client having a user interface for taking the configuration data. To avoid bottlenecks in the client/server communication, the client is equipped with an information package instance, and is designed to integrate taken configuration data into a package and validate the package. The server is designed to take validated packages.