System för hantering av anordningsdokmenter, automationssystem och intelligent fältanordning

摘要

Documentation pertaining to intelligent field devices (14, 15) is maintained in digital format in a centralized document server (DS) for a number of automation systems. The field devices (14, 15) contain document identification information (DIP) stored in them to unambiguously identify the device documentation pertaining to each field device. The identification information can be read using a field device configurator (21) for configuring and controlling field devices in an automation system over a two-way fieldbus. When the user of the configurator (21) wishes to obtain device documentation pertaining to a specific field device, the configurator (21) provides a field document server (FDS) residing in each automation system with one or more DIP parameters read from the field device. The field document server retrieves electronic documentation describing the field device identified by the DIP parameter(s) for display by the configurator user interface.