Endress+hauser Conducta Gesellschaft Fur Mess- Und Regeltechnik Mbh+co. Kg

Endress+hauser Conducta Gmbh+co. Kg

Endress + Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft Fur Mess-Und Regeltechnik Mbh +Co.

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Endress + Hauser Gmbh + Co. Kg

Endress+hauserse+co. Kg

Analytik Jena Ag

Endress & Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft Fur Mess-Un Regeltechnik Gmbh & Co.

Detlev Wittmer

Wolfgang Babel

Manfred Jagiella

Dietmar Spanke

Martin Gehrke

Marc Baret

Andreas Gommlich

Thomas Uehlin

Thomas Wilhelm

Thomas Moore

Ulrich Kaiser

Michael Gunzert

Joachim Albert

Dirk Steinmueller

Michael Hanko

Torsten Pechstein

Stefan Robl

Ralf Bernhard

Stefan Pilz

Stephan Buschnakowski

Matthäus Speck

Benjamin Mack

Dirk Boguhn

Heiko Oehme

Martine Lefebvre

Jörg Herwig

Holger Eberhard

Emilio Schiavi

Axel Fikus

Hermann Straub

Benedikt Spielmann

Bernhard Beck

Thomas Steckenreiter

Joachim Schullerer

Matthias Römer

Reinhard Weiss

Jörg Giebson

Hege Bjonnes

Joachim Schulerer

Oliver Beil

Wilfried Hammelehle

Ralf Koenemann

Ulrich Hoefer

Monika Heisterkamp

Nicolas Wimmer

Dirk Steinmüller

Thorsten Pechstein

The present disclosure relates to a potentiometric probe for measuring a measured variable that represents an ion concentration in a measuring medium, including a probe base including a sensor circuit, and two electrochemical half-cells arranged such that one of the half-cells surrounds at least one portion of the other half-cell, wherein at least one of the half-cells is configured as a module which is connected to the probe base via a mechanical and electrical interface. In another embodiment, one of the half-cells is a measuring half-cell including an ion-selective membrane and a terminal lead which electrically contacts the ion-selective membrane. The other half-cell is a reference half-cell, wherein the measuring half-cell and/or the reference half-cell are each configured as a module which is connected to the probe base via a mechanical and electrical interface.

Potentiometric probe

The invention relates to an intelligent safety valve comprising a valve body having a first valve inlet, a valve outlet and a first sensor compartment, the first sensor compartment including a first sensor assembly, the first sensor compartment being arranged in the valve body, a first closing unit suitable for closing the intelligent safety valve, an actuator mechanically connected to the first closing unit in order to close the first closing unit, and a control unit which is connected to the actuator and is suitable for controlling the actuator, wherein the control unit is connected to the first sensor assembly in order to evaluate sets of measured values from the first sensor assembly, and wherein the first sensor assembly comprises at least one analysis sensor, for example a pH sensor, a conductivity sensor or an oxygen sensor.

Intelligent safety valve and control method of an intelligent safety valve

The present disclosure includes a method for determining the necessity of a measure and/or the success of a measure in the case of a sensor in a retractable assembly, comprising the steps: moving the sensor in the direction of a service chamber of the retractable assembly; analyzing an attribute associated with the sensor, wherein the attribute is a state of at least a portion of the surface of the sensor and/or composition of a medium in the service chamber; and deriving measures from the analysis. The present disclosure also includes a system comprising a retractable assembly having a sensor and a corresponding analysis device.

Method for determining the necessity of cleaning and/or the success of cleaning

Disclosed is a system for spatially resolved determination of at least one physical or chemical process variable of a flowable medium arranged in a container in an automation system, at least one sensor being provided, which is movable in the medium and/or in the container and which ascertains information about the at least one process variable, a position determination unit being provided which supplies the information about the respective current position of the sensor relative to the medium and/or to the container, and a data transmission unit being provided which collects information about the respective current position of the sensor and the corresponding information supplied by the sensor about the at least one process variable and/or communicates the information to an external control unit and/or display unit.

System and method for spatially resolved determination of at least one physical or chemical process variable

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

The present disclosure relates to an optical sensor comprising at least one light source for emitting transmission light into a medium, at least one detector, wherein the transmission light is at least partially converted in the medium by fluorescence into fluorescent light and the detector receives the fluorescent light, wherein a first receiver signal can be generated from the fluorescent light, and wherein a first measured value can be determined from the first receiver signal, wherein the transmission light is at least partially scattered by means of the medium to form scattered light, and the detector receives the scattered light, wherein a second receiver signal can be generated from the scattered light, and wherein a second measured value can be determined from the second receiver signal. The present disclosure further relates to a method for determining a first and second measured value of a medium.

Optical sensor

A method for servicing a field device, wherein the field device is connected with a superordinated data processing system, includes steps as follows: transmitting data associated with the field device, especially measured values or diagnosis relevant parameters, from the superordinated data processing system to the service device via a radio connection between a mobile, especially portable, service device and the superordinated data processing system based on identification information uniquely identifying a field device transceiver associated with the field device; and/or transmitting servicing data, especially parameter data and/or control commands, from the service device to the superordinated data processing system; and servicing the field device through the superordinated data processing system based on the servicing data transmitted from the service device.

Method for servicing a field device

The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a component of a field device for determining or monitoring a process variable of a medium in a container, wherein the component is created via a 3D printing method, wherein during the creation the component is supplied at an intermediate state of the component with an exciter signal, wherein a response signal of the component to the exciter signal is registered, wherein shape and/or structure of the component are/is modified via the 3D printing method, when the current response signal does not agree with a predetermined response signal, and wherein the two previous method steps are alternately repeated, until the current response signal agrees with the predetermined response signal within predetermined tolerance limits.

Method for manufacturing a component of a field device

A method for manufacture of at least one component of a field device for determining or monitoring a process variable, wherein the field device is applied in automation technology and is manufactured from at least one material. The method comprises method steps as follows: specifying at least one structure related and/or material related boundary condition of the component and/or a boundary condition relevant for the functionality of the component and/or at least one external boundary condition, which takes into consideration the influence of environmental conditions on the component at the location of use; optimizing the structure of the component via a finite element model taking into consideration the at least one structure related and/or material related boundary condition and/or the at least one boundary condition relevant for the functionality of the component and/or the at least one environmental condition, wherein the optimized structure of the component is described by digital data; transferring the digital data, which describe the optimized structure of the component, to a 3-D printer; and printing the component in accordance with the digital data.

Method for manufacture of at least one component of a field device

An in-line measuring device for capturing at least two measurands of a measuring medium&#x2014;especially, a measuring fluid&#x2014;flowing through a process receptacle, comprising: a first measuring sensor integrated into the process receptacle, with the former being designed to generate a first measuring signal that is dependent upon a flow measurand&#x2014;especially, a volume and/or mass flow of the measuring medium; a second measuring sensor integrated into the process receptacle, with the former being designed to generate a second measuring signal dependent upon an analysis measurand&#x2014;especially, one dependent upon the concentration of at least one analyte in the measuring medium and measuring electronics that are connected with the first measuring sensor and the second measuring sensor, with the measuring electronics being designed to receive and process the first measuring signal and the second measuring signal.

In-line measuring device

A method for determining a state of a measuring transducer integrated in a process container, wherein in the process container one or more processes are being performed, and the measuring transducer registers at least one physical or chemical process parameter within the process container, includes steps as follows: identifying a process currently being performed in the process container; and ascertaining a deviation value as measure of a deviation of a measured value progression registered by the measuring transducer during the process currently being performed in the process container from a measured value progression expected for the identified process, wherein the state of the measuring transducer and/or of the process is determined utilizing the ascertained deviation value.

Method and apparatus for determining a state of a measuring transducer integrated in a process container

A field device for automation technology, wherein the field device has a metal housing for accommodating a field device electronics, an RFID chip and a first RFID antenna for wireless communication and/or energy transmission between an RFID reading device arranged outside of the field device. The first RFID antenna is spaced from a neighboring wall of the metal housing, wherein shielding is provided between the first RFID antenna and the neighboring wall of the metal housing. The separation between the first RFID antenna and the wall of the metal housing and the shielding between the first RFID antenna and the neighboring wall of the metal housing are so dimensioned, that the metal housing does not prevent wireless communication and/or energy transmission between the RFID reading device and the field device.

Field device for automation technology

A plug-in module for a liquid- or gas-sensor comprised of a sensor module (SM) and a sensor module head (SMH), which can be releasably connected together, and which, when connected, enable data and energy transfer via a galvanically decoupled transfer section, wherein the sensor module head (SMH) includes an energy supply unit for operating the sensor module head (SMH) and the sensor module (SM), as well as a data memory (MEM), in order to store sensor data received from the sensor module (SM).

Plug-in module for a liquid or gas sensor

In a method for servicing a field device of process automation technology having at least two measurement channels, with the assistance of an external service unit, separate device descriptions are provided in the service unit for the measurement channels. The individual measurement channels can be invoked on the service unit via the corresponding device descriptions as logical units, so that, in servicing, the field device appears to the user as at least two logically independent field devices.

Method for servicing a field device of process automation technology having at least two measurement channels and field device of process automation technology having at least two measurement channels and being suitable for performing the method

An arrangement with a superordinated control unit and at least one intelligent field device connectable with the control unit, wherein associated with the control unit is at least one interface with a connection element for accommodating a corresponding connection counterpart. The connection counterpart is associable with an interface module, wherein associated with the interface module is a software protection system securing accessing of the field device. The interface module permits communication between the corresponding field device and the superordinated control unit, wherein associated with the superordinated control unit is a software-protected processing program for the field device, and wherein the processing program is started or enabled via the software protection system, when the connection counterpart of the interface module of the field device is connected with the connection element of the control unit.

Arrangement with a superordinated control unit and at least one intelligent field device connectable with the control unit

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