STANDARDIZED PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT CONFIGURATION TOOL FOR INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICES

摘要

The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for protocol independent configuration of Intelligent Electronic Devices in industrial automation. One or more intelligent electronic devices (37, 38, 39, 40, 41 ) communicate via standard FIELDBUS protocols and are controlled by industrial controllers programmed with the IEC standard. The controllers and devices interact with entities including HMI stations and a virtual controller (30) to utilize inputs from various device manufactures (22) to construct reusable faceplates to control the Intelligent Electronic Devices and configure the Intelligent Electronic Devices via the virtual controller.