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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2006
Scott S. Bump, Franklin, MA (US);
Nestor J. Camino, Jr., Ilingham, MA (US);
Vladimir Kostadinov, Sharon, MA (US);
Charles W. Piper, Foxboro, MA (US);
Richard L. Linscott, Plainville, MA (US);
Johan I. Tegnell, Mansfield, MA (US);
Scott S. Bump, Franklin, MA (US);
Nestor J. Camino, Jr., Ilingham, MA (US);
Vladimir Kostadinov, Sharon, MA (US);
Charles W. Piper, Foxboro, MA (US);
Richard L. Linscott, Plainville, MA (US);
Johan I. Tegnell, Mansfield, MA (US);
Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and user interfaces are described herein installing a field device as a replacement for a previously installed field device of a same type in a process control system. The disclosed method includes initially specifying a device type commissioning definition that includes a set of device-type specific parameters. A first set of instance-specific configuration parameter values are then stored for a first field device. When replacing the first field device by a second field device of the same type on a process control network, the commissioning definition and the previously stored parameters for the first device are used to automatically configure the second device.