Endress + Hauser Process Solutions Ag

Endress+hauser Conducta Gmbh+co. Kg

Benedikt Spielmann

Axel Eidmann

Detlev Wittmer

Thomas Moore

Axel Pöschmann

Martin Lohmann

Thomas Alber

Martine Lefebvre

Karl Büttner

Oliver Zwick

Simon Merklin

Benjamin Schaupp

Oliver Beil

Harald Freimark

A method for transmitting security settings between a first automation engineering field device and a second automation engineering field device includes: identifying and authenticating an operator by means of a service unit; assigning an authorization group based on the identifying and authenticating of the operator; in the case, in which the operator is assigned the administrator authorization group: encrypting at least one security setting, which is present in cleartext, by the first field device; exporting the encrypted security setting; importing the encrypted security setting into the second field device; decrypting the encrypted security setting; loading the decrypted security setting into the data memory of the second field device and operating the second field device with the loaded security setting of the first field device.

Transmission of security settings between a first and a second automation engineering field device

A field device of automation technology having a function for checking quality of a network connection includes an operating electronics and at least one communication interface for connecting to a communication network having one or more network participants and for building a communication connection, wherein a communication stack and a PHY are associated with the communication interface, wherein the communication stack and the PHY are embodied continually to gain and to store communication information regarding the communication connection, wherein the operating electronics is embodied to read out communication information from the communication stack and from the PHY, and by means of an algorithm to subject the communication information to computation and based on the result of the computation to classify a communication state.

Field device for checking the quality of a network connection

The present disclosure comprises a method for managing a plant of the automation technology, including a step of acquiring and storing all data transmitted via a communication network, consisting of process values, control variables and status data, and operating telegrams by a field detection unit, and providing the data and the operating telegrams with time stamps. The method also includes steps of temporally assigning the operating telegrams to the data, and analyzing the assignment and creating an intervention system. The intervention system contains plant states and interventions, wherein a plant state is created on the basis of transmitted data from a sensor unit and from an actuator unit, and wherein an intervention consists of at least one operating telegram following the transmitted data from the sensor unit and from the actuator unit.

Method for monitoring a plant of the automation technology

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Benedikt Spielmann