Method and supporting configuration user interfaces for streamlining installing replacement field devices

US8527888B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Invensys Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Scott S. Bump · Franklin, US
• Nestor Jesus Camino, Jr. · Hingham, US
• Vladimir Kostadinov · Sharon, US
• Charles W. Piper · Foxborough, US
• Richard Linwood Linscott · Plainville, US
• Johan I. Tegnell · Mansfield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2030

Classification

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

Abstract

A method and user interfaces are described herein installing a field device as a replacement for a previously installed field device of a same type in a process control system. The disclosed method includes initially specifying a device type commissioning definition that includes a set of device-type specific parameters. A first set of instance-specific configuration parameter values are then stored for a first field device. When replacing the first field device by a second field device of the same type on a process control network, the commissioning definition and the previously stored parameters for the first device are used to automatically configure the second device.