Setting system, setting device, setting method, and setting program

A setting device that sets settings to a field device required for predetermined operation to be performed by the field device, comprising:

• a database that stores setting data in a first format in which a device parameter to be set to the field device and identification information that logically identifies the device parameter are associated, and for which authority prescribed in advance is required in order to change the stored data;
• a generation unit that, using device configuration information specifying a physical structure of the field device and the setting data in the first format obtained by reference to the database, generates setting data in a second format in which physical information specifying a physical address at which the device parameter is to be set is associated with the device parameter;
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• a downloading unit that sets to the field device the setting data in the second format, wherein
• the identification information includes object identification information in which information that identifies an object to which the device parameter belongs and relative address information that specifies the relative address by a value at which the device parameter is to be set are associated;
• the device configuration information includes information in which the object identification information that identifies the object and starting address information that specifies the starting address by a value of the object are associated;
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• the setting device generates the setting data in the second format by adding the value of the relative address information and the value of the starting address information with which the same object identification information is associated.

A setting method that sets settings upon a field device required for predetermined operation to be performed by the field device, comprising:

• a first step of obtaining setting data in a first format by referring to a database that stores setting data in the first format in which a device parameter to be set to the field device and identification information that logically identifies the device parameter are associated, and for which authority prescribed in advance is required in order to change the stored data, wherein the identification information includes object identification information in which information that identifies an object to which the device parameter belongs and relative address information that specifies the relative address by a value at which the device parameter is to be set are associated;
• a second step of, using device configuration information specifying a physical structure of the field device and the setting data in the first format obtained in the first step, generating setting data in a second format in which physical information specifying a physical address at which the device parameter is to be set is associated with the device parameter, wherein the device configuration information includes information in which the object identification information that identifies the object and starting address information that specifies the starting address by a value of the object are associated;
• a third step of setting to the field device the setting data in the second format that was generated in the second step;
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• a fourth step of generating the setting data in the second format by adding the value of the relative address information and the value of the starting address information with which the same object identification information is associated.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium which stores a setting program that, when executed by a computer that sets settings to a field device required for predetermined operation to be performed by the field device, causes the computer to function as:

• a database that stores setting data in a first format in which a device parameter to be set to the field device and identification information that logically identifies the device parameter are associated, and for which authority prescribed in advance is required in order to change the stored data, wherein the identification information includes object identification information in which information that identifies an object to which the device parameter belongs and relative address information that specifies the relative address by a value at which the device parameter is to be set are associated;
• a generation unit that, using device configuration information specifying a physical structure of the field device and the setting data obtained by reference to the database, generates setting data in a second format in which physical information specifying a physical address at which the device parameter is to be set is associated with the device parameter, wherein the device configuration information includes information in which the object identification information that identifies the object and starting address information that specifies the starting address by a value of the object are associated, and wherein the generation unit generating the setting data in the second format by adding the value of the relative address information and the value of the starting address information with which the same object identification information is associated;
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• a downloading unit that sets to the field device the setting data in the second format.