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Marc Baret

Dietmar Spanke

Detlev Wittmer

Ulrich Kaiser

Thomas Uehlin

Andrea Seger

Georg Hauss

Yong Jin

Romuald Girardey

Dietmar Frühauf

Eric Birgel

Michael Maneval

Edgar Schmitt

Joachim Albert

Martine Lefebvre

Dietmar Birgel

Peter Klöfer

Benjamin Mack

Vincent De Groot

Matthias Altendorf

Mathieu Weibel

Markus Nick

Julien Fischer

Heiko Oehme

Holger Eberhard

Armend Zenuni

Emilio Schiavi

Michael Konrad

Volker Frey

Hege Bjonnes

Nicolas Wimmer

Simon Merklin

Benedikt Schumann

A system for managing data of an automation field device in a secure manner includes a decentralized distributed ledger-type database, or blockchain, comprising a plurality of subscriber nodes, comprising validation-capable subscriber nodes and an automation field device with an electronic unit. The electronic unit is designed to run a distributed ledger software stack. The field device generates data, comprising measurement values and/or calibration certificates requiring verification, and the field device operates as a light node of the decentralized database after running the distributed ledger software stack and is designed to transmit the data to the decentralized database via the communication network and write said data in encrypted form into the decentralized database. The validation-capable subscriber nodes validate the transmitted data, and the decentralized database is designed to store the data if at least a specified proportion of the validation-capable subscriber nodes successfully validate the data.

System and method for managing data of an automation field device in a secure manner against manipulation

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 invention relates to a method and to a system for optimizing the commissioning of at least one of a plurality of field devices in an automation technology system, which are used in different applications, wherein the system comprises at least: one database for saving application information and device types of the plurality of field devices and for saving parameter sets of the plurality of field devices; an electronic computation unit that accesses the remotely arranged database and classifies, assigns, compares, and/or processes the data saved there and has an algorithm for creating and proposing an optimal parameter set; software for supporting a user during commissioning of one of the plurality of field devices, wherein the electronic computation unit is operated by means of the software.

Method and system for optimizing the commissioning of at least one of a plurality of automation technology field devices

The present disclosure relates to a method for positioning at least two circuit boards in a housing having a non-conductive surface, a first securement location for securing the first circuit board, and a second securement location for securing the second circuit board, wherein at least one conductive trace is arranged in the housing and is connected non-releasably with the housing, and wherein the conductive trace electrically contacts the first securement location with the second securement location, the method comprising securing the circuit boards in the securement locations of the housing such that the first circuit board is electrically in contact with the first securement location and the second circuit board is electrically in contact with the second securement location, wherein the first circuit board and the second circuit board are electrically in contact with one another via the at least one conductive trace.

Method for positioning circuit boards and circuit board arrangement

The invention relates to a method and to a system for optimizing the operation of a plurality of field devices in an automation technology plant. The method comprises: ascertaining application information and device types of field devices, wherein the application information describes the application of the respective field device; classifying the application information and storing the classified application information; ascertaining parameter sets from each of the plurality of field devices, wherein the parameter sets comprise multiple parameters and each parameter is assigned a parameter value or a parameter value range, and each field device has at least one current parameter set and at least one standard parameter set, and storing the parameter sets; comparing the current parameter sets with the standard parameter sets to determine actually used parameters of a device type for an application; and operating the field device on the basis of the actually used parameters.

Method and system for optimizing the operation of at least one of a plurality of field devices from automation technology

An apparatus for determining or monitoring at least one process variable which comprises a sensor element, measuring electronics, at least one control/evaluating/calculating unit arranged removed from the measuring unit and/or an in/output unit arranged removed from the measuring unit and the control/evaluating/calculating unit. The control/evaluating/calculating unit and the in/output unit are connected with the measuring unit via a first interface, respectively a second interface, wherein the measuring electronics operates the sensor element and forwards the measurement signals via the interfaces to the control/evaluating/calculating unit as unprocessed, raw, measured values, and wherein the control/evaluating/calculating unit arranged removed from the measuring unit determines, improves and/or monitors the process variable based on the raw, measured values and makes such available via the in/output unit.

Apparatus and system for determining, optimizing or monitoring at least one process variable

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

A method for wireless data transmission between first and second transmission participants, wherein for wireless data transmission between the first and second participants alternately a first protocol and a second protocol are used, wherein the first protocol serves for unidirectional data transmission and the second protocol for bidirectional data transmission.

Method as well as system for wireless data transmission

A method for servicing a field device of process automation technology. The data exchanged between the field device and a servicing program is by means of at least one protocol, which has basic commands, via which basic functions of the field device can be invoked. Each field device which is compatible with the protocol has these basic functions available to it, and wherein only basic commands of the protocol are used to transfer data between the servicing program and the field device.

Method for servicing a field device

A reliable method for measuring a fill level of a fill substance in a container using a fill level measuring device working according to the travel-time principle, wherein, periodically, transmission signals are sent in the direction of the fill substance, their echo signals are registered and converted into an echo function, at least one echo characteristic of the echo function is determined and, on the basis of the echo characteristics of at least one preceding measurement, a prediction is derived for the echo characteristics to be expected in the case of the current measurement, the echo characteristics of the current measurement are determined taking into consideration the prediction, and, on the basis of the echo characteristics, the current fill level is determined.

Filling level measurement method according to the running time principle

A fill level measuring device for measuring a fill level of a fill substance in a container and a method for fill level measurement using this fill level measuring device are provided. The fill level measuring device can perform fill level measurements upon re-start immediately on its own and reliably, and includes: at least one antenna, which issues transmitted signals (S) and receives echo signals (E); a signal processor, which serves for deriving from the received echo signals (E) an echo function containing the amplitudes (A) of the echo signals (E) as a function of travel time; a memory for storing data in a table whose columns serve for storing the echo functions in the columns in a sequence which corresponds to the fill levels associated with the individual echo functions; and an evaluation unit, which accesses the table for determining the fill level.

Fill level measuring device and method for fill level measurement using the travel time principle

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