Patent ID: 8712705

Claim:
A system to configure a field device of the type used to calculate a flow of a process fluid, the system comprising: a flow repository comprising: a list of process fluids with which the field device can be used; fluid equation data which provides information related to fluid equations for calculating fluid parameters of the process fluid; a list of primary elements which are adapted to interact with the process fluid and used to determine flow of the process fluid and associated primary element equation data which provides information related to primary element equations for calculating primary element parameters; and a flow application adapted to retrieve data from the flow repository and to receive user data including user-selectable options related to the retrieved data, the user-selectable options including at least one option to select a particular primary element and a particular process fluid, the flow application responsive to the user data to configure the field device through an interface based upon a selected fluid and corresponding fluid equation data and a selected primary element and corresponding primary element equation data; wherein the flow application further comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) generator to generate a GUI including the user selectable options accessible by a user to configure the field device through the interface, the user selectable options related to the list of primary elements and list of the process fluids, from the flow repository.