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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 13, 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 and configuring field devices in an automation installation with a configuration tool designed to physically identify a field device in the automation installation and logically identify its field device type, to logically incorporate and configure it into the automation installation, the tool to this end resorting to a prescribed field-device-type-specific information package at least partially describing functions and data of the field device type. Parameterizing a plurality of field devices of the same type may be achieved by forming a first individual field-device-specific information package for a first field device from the field-device-type-specific information package, and a further individual field-device-specific information package for each further field device of the same type from the first individual field-device-specific information package, by first of all duplicating the first individual field-device-specific information package, then individualizing it for the further field device.