Patent ID: 8832236

Claim:
A method, comprising: storing a device commissioning process associated with a first field device by: recording, at a first process controller of a process control system, first and second configuration data transmitted between a configuration system of the process control system and the first field device during commissioning of the first field device; recording, at the first process controller, an amount of time elapsed between recording of the first configuration data and recording of the second configuration data; detecting, at a second process controller of the process control system, replacement of the first field device with a second field device; and playing back the stored device commissioning process to commission the second field device based on the recorded amount of time by: sending the first recorded configuration data from the second process controller to the second field device; and after the recorded amount of time has passed since the sending of the first recorded configuration data, sending the second recorded configuration data from the second process controller to the second field device.