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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Buerkert Werke Gmbh, Ingelfingen, DE;
Ralf Schmötzer, Hohebach, DE;
BUERKERT WERKE GMBH, , DE;
Abstract
Systems and methods of the subject invention provide for the communication with field devices in a first fieldbus system working in accordance with a first standard, and in a second fieldbus system working in accordance with a second standard. First and second field devices are arranged in the first fieldbus system and are coupled via a first fieldbus in accordance with the first standard. The first field device is also coupled to the second fieldbus system working in accordance with a second standard. A standardized object in accordance with the first standard is loaded on the first field device. A description of the standardized object is provided in the second fieldbus system. The standardized object is used from the second fieldbus system, the standardized object having no definition of a data type.