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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2014
Abb Schweiz Ag, Baden, CH;
Mikael Rudin, Västerås, SE;
ABB Schweiz AG, Baden, CH;
Abstract
A mobile device for determining cable connections between field devices and I/O modules in a process control system, wherein the mobile device includes a cable interface arranged to be connected to a cable, a user interface configured to receive a user selection of a field device identifier identifying a field device in the process control system, and a processor configured to send an I/O module identification query via the cable interface to an I/O module connected to the cable interface by means of a cable, receive, via the cable interface, I/O module identification data from the I/O module in response to the I/O module identification query, and to associate a user-selected field device identifier with the I/O module identification data received by the processor. An engineering tool device, a system and corresponding methods are also disclosed herein.