Title
Field device integration
Abstract
Today, the large number of different device types and suppliers within a control system project makes the engineering and configuration task difficult and time-consuming. Different tools must be mastered and data must be exchanged between these tools. A solution can be achieved by standardising suitable interfaces to achieve data sharing and framework integration. For the computable description of device parameters, the so called electronic device description (EDD) language (EDDL) is specified. The EDD is used for the configuration and the operational behaviour of a device. Furthermore, the field device tool (FDT) concept defines the interfaces between device-specific software components (or device type manager (DTM)) provided by the device supplier and the engineering tool of the control system manufacturer. A DTM can easily be developed using existing EDD files as shown in this article. Therefore, an EDD and FDT are not contradictory technologies, instead they complement each other.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/ETFA.2001.997672
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 8th IEEE International Conference
Keywords
DocType
Volume
electronic data interchange,field buses,process control,standardisation,PROFIBUS,electronic device description,field device integration,field device tool,fieldbus systems,peripheral interfaces,process control
Conference
2
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7241-7
4
0.63
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Neumann140.63
René Simon240.63
Christian Diedrich37617.15
Matthias Riedl4293.37