Patent ID: 9563188
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G05B,Y02P

Claim:
1. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium comprising executable code, the executable code comprising instructions for: providing a batch commissioning system configured to operatively couple at least two field devices to a control system; providing a batch decommissioning system configured to operatively uncouple the at least two field devices from the control system; and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to use the batch commissioning system, the batch decommissioning system, or a combination thereof, to select, on a display, the at least two field devices, and to communicatively interface with the control system to operatively couple, uncouple, or a combination thereof, the at least two field device from the control system, wherein a first field device of the at least two field devices comprises a mismatch state, and wherein the mismatched state comprises a physical device (PD) tag assigned to the first field device, a permanent node ID assigned to the first field device, and no node address corresponding to a live device, and wherein the batch commissioning system is configured to transition the first field device from the mismatch state into a commissioned state if the first field device is determined to be in the mismatch state.