# US 2020/0401123 A1 · Method for the application-specific setting of a field device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2020/0401123 A1 - Document ID: US20200401123A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/468,368 - Filed: 2017-10-30 - Published: 2020-12-24 - Earliest claimed: 2016-12-13 - Assignees: Endress + Hauser Process Solutions AG - Applicants: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG - Inventors: Michael Maneval; Nikolai Fink; Hans Joachim Fröhlich; Thomas Schmidt - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200401123A1 ## CPC - G05B 23/0272: {Presentation of monitored results, e.g. selection of status reports to be displayed; Filtering information to the user} - G05B 19/0425: {Safety, monitoring} - G05B 2219/31211: Communicate diagnostic data from intelligent field device controller to central - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) ## Abstract The present disclosure relates to a method for the application-specific setting of a field device, which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising: recording a diagnostic message which occurs or has occurred on the field device during a defined interval, analyzing which of the diagnostic messages are tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or plausibility to each diagnostic message that has arisen in the defined application, clearing the diagnostic message if this is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, and using the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message classified as tolerable and/or plausible. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-9. (canceled) ### Claim 10 A method for the application-specific setting of a field device which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising: recording a diagnostic message, error message, or notice about an error message which occurs or has occurred at least temporarily on the field device during a defined interval; analyzing if the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message is tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application; assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or the plausibility to the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message that has arisen in the defined application; clearing the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message if the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application; and using an application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message classified as tolerable and/or plausible. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method according to claim 10, wherein the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the tolerable or plausible diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message, is stored in the field device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The Method according to claim 10, wherein the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the tolerable or plausible diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message, is stored in an operating device for operating the field device. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The method according to claim 10, further comprising: transmitting to a to a cloud-based service platform the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the tolerable or plausible diagnostic message, error message, and/or notice about an error message. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method according to claim 13, wherein application-specific settings are stored by a large number of field devices in the same or a similar defined application, and wherein an optimum setting for a field device in the same or a similar application is determined using the stored application-specific settings of the field devices. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the optimum setting for field devices in the same or similar defined application is provided via the cloud-based service platform. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the optimum setting for field devices in the same or the similar defined application is determined using statistical evaluation methods. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the optimal setting for field devices in the same or similar defined application is carried out during the commissioning of the field device, during a service measure or during the operation of the field device for the purpose of the optimal adaptation to the defined application. ### Claim 18 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, further comprising: transmitting from the cloud-based service platform directly to the field device the optimal setting for field devices in the same or the similar defined application.