Patent ID: 8306658
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A field device for data- and parameter-processing in a decentralized automation system, the system having a field bus connected to the field device and further connected fieldbus components which communicate with other fieldbus components via the field bus, wherein a unified automation system is formed of a plurality of encapsulated function blocks, which run in a decentralized manner in the individual fieldbus components of the fieldbus and which communicate with other fieldbus components, comprising: a data storage function block, which accepts data and/or parameters of other function blocks on the basis of a time-controlled or event-controlled criterion and stores such in a storage medium provided in the field device, wherein: said data storage function block outputs data or parameters stored on the basis of a time-controlled or event-controlled criterion from a storage medium provided in the field device and transfers such to appropriate function blocks; said data storage function block is embodied for an autonomous parametering of the function blocks in the field device, such that the new data and/or parameters are loadable into said function blocks of the field device from the storage medium of said data storage function block; and said function blocks meet specifications of Profibus or Foundation Fieldbus.