HANDHELD FIELD MAINTENANCE TOOL WITH SIMULATION OF FIELD DEVICE FOR INSTRUCTION OR QUALIFICATION

摘要

A handheld field maintenance tool (52, 102) includes a training mode. The handheld field maintenance tool (52, 102) has a process communication module (121, 138) operably coupleable to a field device (22, 23, 104), a user interface (156), and a controller (130) coupled to the process communication module (121, 138) and the user interface (156). The controller (130) is configured to interact with a user through the user interface (156), and is configured to provide a simulation function where at least one characteristic of the field device (22, 23, 104), indicated through the user interface (156), is generated by the controller (130) instead of the field device (22, 23, 104).