Automated creation of suitable preference menus for field devices
AssigneeEndress+Hauser SE+Co.KG
InventorsMarkus Kilian, Andrea Seger, Bert Von Stein, Christian Wandrei
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Abstract
A method for creating a preference menu for a field device is described, wherein the field device can be parameterized and configured by means of a large number of parameters. The method involves compiling a device specification for the field device indicated by the customer for an order and, optionally, further customer specifications as a preference menu, which incorporates a selection of preferred parameters, which are particularly relevant to the respective device specification for the field device, and storing the preference menu with a selection of preferred parameters in a memory of the field device.
Claims14
A method for creating a preference menu for a field device, wherein the field device can be parameterized and configured by means of a large number of parameters, wherein the method features:
- compiling a device specification indicated by the customer at a purchase order for the field device and optionally other customer specifications as a preference menu, which comprises a selection of preferred parameters, which are particularly relevant to the respective device specification for the field device;
- storing the preference menu with the selection of preferred parameters in a memory component of the field device;
- readout of the preference menu from the field device via host computer, which is connected to the field device via a fieldbus;
- transfer of the preference menu with a selection of preferred parameters from the field device to the host computer via the fieldbus;
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- display of the preference menu on the host computer using a device connectivity software.
A fieldbus system, which features:
- a field device which can be parameterized and configured by means of a large number of parameters, wherein the field device features:
- a sensing element;
- a fieldbus interface for connection to a fieldbus;
- and a programmable nonvolatile memory, wherein:
- a preference menu is stored in said programmable nonvolatile memory, which comprises a selection of preferred parameters, which are particularly relevant to said respective device specification for said field device;
- said preference menu is generated as a suitable selection of preferred parameters for said respective device specification for said field device by means of compiling a device specification for said field device and optionally other customer specifications;
- a host computer;
- a fieldbus, to which said field device and said host computer are connected, wherein:
- device connectivity software is installed on said host computer, with which said field device can be parameterized and configured via the fieldbus;
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- said device connectivity software installed on said host computer is designed to read out and display said preference menu from said field device, highlighted in a menu structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.