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

US10416640B2 · 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 13, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 17, 2019
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 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 and configuring field devices in an automation installation with a configuration tool designed to physically identify a field device in the automation installation and logically identify its field device type, to logically incorporate and configure it into the automation installation, the tool to this end resorting to a prescribed field-device-type-specific information package at least partially describing functions and data of the field device type. Parameterizing a plurality of field devices of the same type may be achieved by forming a first individual field-device-specific information package for a first field device from the field-device-type-specific information package, and a further individual field-device-specific information package for each further field device of the same type from the first individual field-device-specific information package, by first of all duplicating the first individual field-device-specific information package, then individualizing it for the further field device.