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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2015
Abb Technology Ag, Zurich, CH;
Dirk Wagener, Stadthagen, DE;
Christoph Welte, Neu-Ulm, DE;
Marcus Heege, Kaisersesch, DE;
Wolfgang Mahnke, Hettenleidelheim, DE;
Marko Schlueter, Espelkamp, DE;
ABB Schweiz AG, Baden, CH;
Abstract
A method/device for managing/configuring field devices in an automation installation with a configuration tool designed to physically identify a field device therein, to logically incorporate it into, and configure it in, the automation installation, wherein the configuration tool to uses a prescribed field-device-type-specific information package describing functions and data of the field device at least partially and wherein the configuration tool has a server and a client, the server being designed to integrate received configuration data with the field-device-type-specific information package into an information package and to validate and process the information package with a piece of validation logic, and the client having a user interface for taking the configuration data. To avoid bottlenecks in the client/server communication, the client is equipped with an information package instance, and is designed to integrate taken configuration data into a package and validate the package. The server is designed to take validated packages.