Patent ID: 9618910
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G05B

Claim:
1. A method of generating device templates for integrating a controller controllable (CC) device with a process controller in a processing plant, comprising: obtaining an existing device template having a device description for said CC device including a list of its device parameters, its type of said CC device, its communication protocol, and its data format being either serial data or parallel data, connection details for communications including assembly structures being a block of data for reading parameter values received from said CC device and writing parameter values to said CC device, and a mapping of said device parameters into said assembly structures or said device description, and using a processor implementing a device template generating algorithm, generating a custom device template for said CC device (i) by modifying said existing device template to include at least one modification or (ii) generating said custom device template anew from said device description, wherein said custom device template provides all information needed by said process controller to communicate with said CC device and understand said data format.