Field device with means for performing diagnostic methods

US8683366B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ENDRESS+HAUSER GMBH+CO.KG · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Hammer · Wehr, DE
• Dietmar Spanke · Steinen, DE
• Herbert Schroth · Schopfheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/25428
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A field device is able to diagnose a broad spectrum of possible faults and/or states, and includes: structure for performing user defined, diagnostic methods; which has an input circuit, via which at least one input variable is fed to the structure; which has an evaluation unit, which serves for deriving, on the basis of at least one input variable selected by the user and at least one evaluating method selected by the user, at least one characterizing variable; which has a monitoring unit, which monitors the derived characterizing variables on the basis of monitoring criteria selected by the user; and which has an output unit, which, upon the meeting of a monitoring criterion, outputs a diagnosis associated with such monitoring criterion; and an interface, via which a user selects the input variables for each user defined diagnostic method, selects the evaluating methods to apply to the input variables, selects the monitoring criteria, and specifies the diagnosis.