Endress + Hauser Process Solutions Ag

Codewrights Gmbh

Endress+hauserse+co. Kg

Endress+hauser Messtechnik Gmbh+co. Kg

Endress+hauser Management Ag

Endress+hauser Infoserve Gmbh+co. Kg

Michael Maneval

Michael Mayer

Axel Pöschmann

Robert Kolblin

Ulrich Kaiser

Marc Baret

Eugenio Ferreira Da Silva Neto

Jorg Reinkensmeier

Markus Nick

Georg Hauss

Nikolai Fink

Michael Gunzert

Johannes Sprenger

Ingomar Sotriffer

Jorg Hahniche

Ralf Schmidt

Emilio Schiavi

Thomas Schmidt

Karl Büttner

Hans Joachim Fröhlich

Jörg Hähniche

Jörg Reinkensmeier

Georg Veith

Klaus Nunnenmacher

Mario Wittig

Dirk Hamann

Adrian Gersbach

Robert Kölblin

A method for verifying field device inventory includes connecting a processing unit to a network; reading the address space of the network using the processing unit to generate a list of field devices contained in the address space; establishing communication between the processing unit and a field device contained in the list; reading out identification information of the field device using the processing unit, the identification and a characteristic parameter of the field device; carrying out a consistency check, a negative result being achieved if a field device is already entered under the serial number that has been read out; checking, if a negative result, whether a characteristic parameter of the field device corresponds with the characteristic parameter that has been read out; and outputting a notification using the processing unit that a characteristic parameter assigned to the field device deviates from the parameter that has been read out.

Method for verifying the field device inventory entered in an asset management system

The present disclosure relates to automation technology. A first gateway is connected via a first communication network to a field device&#x2014;and a second gateway is connected to the field device via a second communication network. The first and the second gateway are connected to a control unit. The first communication network and the second communication network are connected to a control room. The control room switches over to the other communication network and establishes a communication connection therewith if a problem is detected in the previous communication connection. Communication access to the first gateway is implemented in the control unit, and communication access to the second gateway is implemented in the control unit via a second driver. The control unit continuously analyses the first communication network and the second communication network and in the event of a control room switchover, switches over to the gateway of that network.

Method for operating an automation technology facility

The invention includes a method and a communication network for preventing impermissible access to software applications implemented in field devices, wherein the field devices are integrated in a communication network of automation technology and wherein each software application exchanges information within the communication network via at least one communication interface. The method includes registering currently activated safety functions of each of the communication interfaces; registering all activatable safety functions of each communication interface; ascertaining at least one shared safety function, which is activatable in each of the communication interfaces; displaying the shared safety functions and selecting at least one displayed, shared safety function; and reconfiguring each of the communication interfaces, wherein currently set safety functions are replaced by the at least one selected, shared safety function, and when no shared safety function was ascertained, each of the communication interfaces is so reconfigured that no safety function is activated.

Method for preventing impermissible access to software applications in field devices

Described is an interface apparatus for performing data interchange, or exchange, between a fieldbus network and a cloud. The interface apparatus includes a first interface, via which the interface apparatus is connectable with at least one fieldbus component of the fieldbus network, and a second interface, via which the interface apparatus is connectable with the cloud. The first interface is embodied as an interface corresponding to the application programming interface of the cloud, wherein an interface definition of the first interface agrees with an interface definition of the application programming interface of the cloud. The interface apparatus is embodied to convert a request for a cloud service received via the first interface from a fieldbus component of the fieldbus network into a request addressed to the cloud for a cloud service and to transfer such via the second interface to the cloud.

Interface apparatus for a data interchange between a field bus network and a cloud

A method for storing data for at least one of a device state, device diagnosis and calibration of a field device in a cloud, with the field device having a self-monitoring functionality. The method includes device-internal registering of first data for at least one of a device state, device diagnosis and calibration by the field device and transfer of the device-internally registered first data from the field device to the cloud. Moreover, the method includes registering second data for at least one of a device state, device diagnosis and calibration of the field device using an external service computer and transferring the second data from the external service computer to the cloud. Both the first data as well as also the second data are stored in the cloud.

Storage of device-related data relating to field devices in a cloud

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for determining or monitoring a process variable having a higher-level unit and a plurality of field devices. The field devices generate data and are connected to one another for communication, and the higher-level unit and the field devices are nodes corresponding to a distributed ledger or blockchain technology comprising transaction creation units. Each field device is assigned a transaction creation unit for creating transactions. A created transaction contains data from the field devices assigned to the transaction creation units. A block creation unit processes a created transaction to form a data block. Validation units check the data block and/or transactions for validity. The data block is valid if at least one predefined number of validation units validates the data block, wherein each node is assigned one of the validation units. The valid data block is stored in a distributed database.

System and method for determining or monitoring a process variable in an automation plant

The present disclosure resides in a method for monitoring an automated facility, wherein a plurality of field devices are integrated in the facility, comprising: connecting a cloud gateway with a first communication network of the facility; ascertaining field devices connected to the first communication network; testing whether device descriptions corresponding to the field devices are present in a server connected with the cloud gateway via a second communication network; downloading from the server device descriptions corresponding to the field devices and installing the device descriptions in the cloud gateway; creating a configuration plan, wherein the configuration plan defines at least one field device to be queried, the type of queried data, and the frequency of the querying; transmitting the configuration plan to the cloud gateway; querying data from the queried field devices according to the configuration plan; transmitting queried data to the server; and collecting and evaluating transmitted data.

Method and cloud gateway for monitoring an automated facility

The present disclosure relates to a method for the application-specific setting of a field device, which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising: recording a diagnostic message which occurs or has occurred on the field device during a defined interval, analyzing which of the diagnostic messages are tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or plausibility to each diagnostic message that has arisen in the defined application, clearing the diagnostic message if this is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, and using the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message classified as tolerable and/or plausible.

Method for the application-specific setting of a field device

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 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

A method for operating a field device, wherein at least one command that is in line with a communication protocol for operating a field device is sent from a higher-order unit to a field device by sending the command to an operating unit by means of a first bearer protocol and by transmitting the command from the operating unit to the field device by means of a second bearer protocol.

Method for operating a field device

A process control arrangement (PKA), having a number of fieldbus systems (DP, PA, FH), especially different fieldbus systems (DP, PA, FH), and having a number of fieldbus interfaces (PAP, PAP, PAP), wherein each of the fieldbus systems (DP, PA, FH) is connected to at least one of the fieldbus interfaces (PAP, PAP, PAP), wherein the fieldbus interfaces (PAP, PAP, PAP) serve for communication between the fieldbus systems (DP, PA, FH) and a communication plane (ET) superordinated to the fieldbus systems, only a first of the fieldbus interfaces (PAP) is directly connected to the superordinated communication plane (ET), and wherein the fieldbus interfaces (PAP, PAP, PAP) are connected in series with one another beginning with the first of the fieldbus interfaces (PAP).

Process control arrangement for a plant of process and/or automation technology connecting a superordinate communication plane with fieldbus systems

A method has been invented for dynamically adapting a diagnostic system, which is at least partially implemented in a controller, and which has at least one diagnostic block. In such case, the controller is, in communication via a fieldbus with at least one field device, wherein the at least one diagnostic block is embodied in such a manner, that through this, various diagnostic parameters of the at least one field device are capable of being read. Additionally, the at least one diagnostic block is implemented (or provided) in the controller and/or in the at least one field device. The method includes steps as follows: Reading at least one diagnostic parameter of the field device by the diagnostic system; checking by the diagnostic system, referencing the at least one read diagnostic parameter, of whether a predetermined criterion for an alarm or error report is fulfilled; if such a predetermined criterion is fulfilled, automated checking by the diagnostic system, on the basis of predetermined rules, of whether an adapting of the criterion is possible in such a manner that the adapted criterion for an alarm or error report is no longer fulfilled; and outputting an alarm or error report only if such an adapting of the criterion is not possible.

Method for dynamically adapting a diagnostic system

A method for operating a fieldbus interface (FI) connected to a fieldbus of process automation technology. The method includes the following: tapping data traffic on the fieldbus by the fieldbus interface; and registering tapped configuration information relative to cyclic data traffic on the fieldbus by the fieldbus interface.

Method for operating a fieldbus interface

A method for exchanging upkeep-relevant information regarding a field device with a computer-supported upkeep system, which manages upkeep-relevant information regarding the field device in a database. A mobile, manually portable device is utilized, which has an interface for a wireless Internet access. According to the method, a wireless Internet access is established by the mobile, manually portable device. Subsequently, upkeep-relevant invention regarding the field device is exchanged between the computer-supported, upkeep system, which is connected to the Internet, and the mobile, manually portable device, via the Internet.

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