WO2006069763A1 - Verfahren zur konfiguration von feldgeräten - Google Patents
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- WO2006069763A1 WO2006069763A1 PCT/EP2005/014009 EP2005014009W WO2006069763A1 WO 2006069763 A1 WO2006069763 A1 WO 2006069763A1 EP 2005014009 W EP2005014009 W EP 2005014009W WO 2006069763 A1 WO2006069763 A1 WO 2006069763A1
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- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B19/00—Program-control systems
- G05B19/02—Program-control systems electric
- G05B19/04—Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
- G05B19/042—Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
- G05B19/0426—Programming the control sequence
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- G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
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- G06F8/65—Updates
- G06F8/658—Incremental updates; Differential updates
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- G—PHYSICS
- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
- G05B2219/20—Pc systems
- G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
- G05B2219/25092—Customized control features, configuration
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- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
- G05B2219/20—Pc systems
- G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
- G05B2219/25428—Field device
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- G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
- G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
- G06F9/44—Arrangements for executing specific programs
- G06F9/445—Program loading or initiating
- G06F9/44505—Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
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- the invention relates to a method for configuring field devices in a process automation system.
- Modern process automation systems such as those used in the chemical, petroleum or other process industries, use intelligent field devices, sensors and actuators. These so-called field devices are connected to one another and to the remaining process automation system components via a fieldbus system or other communication devices.
- the automation functions which are essentially the control circuits, are implemented distributed over these field devices. Due to their potential use in potentially explosive areas, the resources of the field devices for storing the configuration and parameters and the transmission bandwidth of the fieldbus systems are limited.
- a configuration tool with a central configuration database is used to configure and parameterize the process automation system. With this configuration tool, the
- Process automation functions including the configurations and the parameters of the field devices are already configured without existing communication connection with the field devices (offline configuration).
- the configuration tool is then connected to the fieldbus and the Configurations and parameters loaded into the field devices. During this loading process, a comparison with existing, for example, pre-configured data in the device must be taken into account.
- Configuration generation is based on device description information to account for the specific characteristics of the field devices. This device description information is kept regularly in machine-readable form as a file.
- Process automation systems are used for critical continuous processes where the automation function can only be stopped in certain states.
- the use of resource-limited field devices on a very bandwidth-limited fieldbus requires special procedures to be able to load changes to configuration and parameter data into the field devices via the fieldbus even during normal operation without stopping the automation function.
- the invention has for its object to provide a method for configuring field devices in a process automation system, in which the loads of the communication links are minimized.
- the invention is based on a configuration tool with a central configuration database.
- the invention is further based on field devices that are configurable and configured on site. It can be provided, the settings directly on the field device itself or via an operating device, which is connected via a communication link with the field device to make. In this case, the communication connection can be formed by a field bus.
- the configuration tool uses configuration data and parameter images of the field devices, which reflect the last state of charge of the field devices. For each field device, such an image is recorded once.
- the configuration tool for version checking the configuration data images with the data of the field devices instead of a complete configuration and parameter comparison uses version identifiers that are either managed by the field device itself or implicitly changed by loading operations and thus to identify the present in the field device configuration be used.
- the current configuration of each field device is first stored once as an image in the configuration tool.
- in operation field devices can subsequently integrate into the configuration by means of said configuration tool.
- configuration and parameter changes from the configuration tool are only transferred as increments to the last loaded configuration.
- each configuration change is stored locally in the field device together with a unique, structured version identifier. If necessary, the version identifier is transmitted to the configuration tool upon request and the difference between the structure of the version identifier and the stored image is used to update the
- Configuration and parameter data in the configuration tool can be retrieved from the relevant field device.
- Configuration changes are mapped by the configuration tool to the configuration and parameter entries of the field devices, minimizing the impact on the running process automation functions of the entire system, and reducing the load operations required to achieve the new configuration in the field devices.
- the increments are generated in the configuration tool based on configuration data images of the field devices. The increments are chosen so that on the one hand the effects on the process controlled by the system are minimized, on the other hand the transmission times are minimized by the smallest possible changes.
- the generated configuration can use more configuration entries to implement the same automation function than one that does not take into account the current configuration of the field devices. However, this reduces the number of load operations required to achieve the new configuration in the field devices and minimizes the impact on the process automation feature of the entire system.
- the method described here allows incremental changes made to the field devices to be matched with the data in the configuration database without interrupting the process automation feature of the entire system.
- Version identifiers are managed by each field device itself or are implicitly changed by load operations.
- the version identifiers are classified.
- the grading is based on the recognition that a device configuration for a modern, complex field device has a certain, detectable granularity, which is reflected in properties of objects. It is intended, in addition to the facts of the change in the configuration in its entirety and the change of objects to mark, as far as at least one property is changed.
- the levels of the version identifiers are used to dynamically determine the extent to which the configuration and parameter data is updated as required by determining the objects whose properties have been changed.
- this facilitates the determination of the necessary extent of updating.
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| DE112005002649T DE112005002649A5 (de) | 2004-12-23 | 2005-12-23 | Verfahren zur Konfiguration von Feldgeräten |
| US11/792,490 US20080140870A1 (en) | 2004-12-23 | 2005-12-23 | Method for Configuring Field Devices |
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| DE102010027963A1 (de) * | 2010-04-20 | 2011-10-20 | Endress + Hauser Gmbh + Co. Kg | Verfahren zum Betreiben eines Feldgerätes der Prozessautomatisierungstechnik |
| DE102010028152A1 (de) * | 2010-04-23 | 2011-10-27 | Endress + Hauser Process Solutions Ag | Aufzeichnung von History-Informationen in einem Feldgerät |
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| US5521588A (en) * | 1993-05-10 | 1996-05-28 | Mercedes-Benz Ag | Method and apparatus for programming motor vehicle controls |
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| WO2009038651A3 (en) * | 2007-09-20 | 2009-05-14 | Siemens Energy & Automat | Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing programmable logic units |
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| DE102009028195A1 (de) * | 2009-08-04 | 2011-02-17 | Endress + Hauser Flowtec Ag | Erzeugung von konfigurationsspezifischen Gerätetreibern |
| DE102010027963A1 (de) * | 2010-04-20 | 2011-10-20 | Endress + Hauser Gmbh + Co. Kg | Verfahren zum Betreiben eines Feldgerätes der Prozessautomatisierungstechnik |
| DE102010028152A1 (de) * | 2010-04-23 | 2011-10-27 | Endress + Hauser Process Solutions Ag | Aufzeichnung von History-Informationen in einem Feldgerät |
| DE102010028152B4 (de) | 2010-04-23 | 2019-09-19 | Endress + Hauser Process Solutions Ag | Aufzeichnung von History-Informationen in einem Feldgerät |
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