Patent ID: 8307125
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A field instrument management apparatus for managing a field instrument by communicating therewith, comprising: a management unit that transfers a first request, which requests to provide an instrument address, to said field instrument, and provides said instrument address to the outside at a first time at which said instrument address is acquired from said field instrument; a management screen that displays the acquired instrument address so that a new instrument address of a newly added field instrument can be set to an unused instrument address; a control and computing portion that outputs the acquired instrument address to the management screen so that the management screen can display the acquired instrument address; an operation portion that receives an operation by an operator; a LAN communication portion that communicates with a communication server in accordance with a communication standard of LAN, the LAN communication portion communicating with the field instrument via the communication server and a field bus that is standardized for communication in a plant; a storage portion that stores an operating system (OS), a management program, an instrument information database, and an individual management tool, the management program managing the field instrument, the instrument information database containing attribute information that relates to the field instrument, the instrument information database being registered in the field instrument as instrument information, the instrument information database being assembled by acquiring the instrument information from the field instrument via a LAN cable, the communication server, and the field bus, the individual management tool specializing the field instrument and exclusively managing the field instrument.