WO2017182201A1 - Procédé de surveillance de l'état d'une installation pour l'automatisation de processus - Google Patents

Procédé de surveillance de l'état d'une installation pour l'automatisation de processus Download PDF

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WO2017182201A1
WO2017182201A1 PCT/EP2017/056214 EP2017056214W WO2017182201A1 WO 2017182201 A1 WO2017182201 A1 WO 2017182201A1 EP 2017056214 W EP2017056214 W EP 2017056214W WO 2017182201 A1 WO2017182201 A1 WO 2017182201A1
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Ingomar Sotriffer
Michael Mayer
Jan Pflug
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
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    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
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  • the invention relates to a method and a system for monitoring the condition of a system of process automation, which consists of a plurality of field devices capable of communication.
  • Field devices are in principle all devices that are used close to the process and the process-relevant
  • field devices are used to detect and / or influence process variables.
  • measuring process variables measuring devices, or
  • Sensors are used, for example, for measuring pressure and temperature.
  • Conductivity measurement, flow measurement, pH measurement, level measurement, etc. used and recorded the corresponding process variables pressure, temperature, conductivity, pH, level, flow, etc.
  • Actuators are used to influence process variables. These are, for example, pumps or valves that can influence the flow of a liquid in a pipe or the level in a container.
  • field devices are also understood as remote I / Os, radio adapters or general devices which are arranged at the field level.
  • Control systems or control units such as a PLC (programmable logic circuit
  • the higher-level units serve, among other things, for process control, process visualization, process monitoring and commissioning of the field devices.
  • the measured values acquired by the field devices, in particular by sensors, are transmitted via the respective bus system to one (or possibly several) higher-level unit (s).
  • a data transmission from the higher-level unit via the bus system to the field devices is required, in particular for the configuration and parameterization of field devices and for the control of actuators.
  • EDD electronic device description
  • DTMs Device Type Manager
  • FDT Field Device Tool
  • the current FDT specification 2.0 is available via the ZVEI, or via the PNO, or via the FDT Group.
  • DTMs for their field devices.
  • the DTMs encapsulate all variables and functions of the respective field device and usually provide a graphic
  • the DTMs require a frame application (FDT frame), which is formed, for example, by the operating programs listed above.
  • FDT frame frame application
  • the frame application and the corresponding DTMs allow very convenient access to the field devices and to the information generated or determined by them or to their
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method and system, which allows in a simple way, information from
  • the object is achieved by a condition monitoring method of a system of
  • Process automation which consists of several communication-capable field devices solved, each field device is assigned a device driver, which is integrated in a frame application, and wherein the respective device driver and the frame application communicate via standardized driver interfaces, comprising:
  • the advantage of the method according to the invention is that a user no longer has to store locally the information retrieved from a field device first and then manually load it onto the database, but rather that the information is automatically stored in the database get saved.
  • the frame application contains all the necessary configuration settings to automatically transmit the information retrieved by the device driver to the database on a server.
  • a big advantage here is the fact that to transmit the information to the electronic database server only the frame application must be configured. Instead of implementing an interface for connecting to the database for each individual device driver and configuring each one, this only has to be done once for the frame application. The respective device driver does not need any knowledge about what happens to the information after it is passed to the frame application.
  • the additional interface serves as a private interface via which the retrieved information is transmitted from the device driver to the frame application.
  • the device drivers therefore only have to be slightly modified for the method according to the invention by making the additional interface known to them.
  • Already available device drivers can be suitably modified for the process of the invention without great effort. It may alternatively be provided instead of using a respective device driver, which is designed to be suitable for the respective field device, to use a generic device driver which supports a multiplicity of different field device types.
  • the information from the frame application be summarized and transmitted in summarized form to the database.
  • additional information can be added to the information.
  • the field device may be directly connected to a host running the frame application. Between host and Field device but also other network devices, such as gateways, segment couplers or the like can be arranged. It may also be provided to add status information in the network of adjacent field devices as additional information in order to facilitate a possible troubleshooting in a diagnostic case.
  • information on the database is loaded from the database to the frame application and transmitted via the additional interface to the device driver.
  • the method thus allows bi-directional transmission of information between the database and the frame application.
  • the device driver can obtain information in this way by means of frame application from the database.
  • the method is initiated by a user.
  • the user selects in the frame application the desired action or the desired information to be determined by the field device and / or or to be generated.
  • the data acquisition / generation, the subsequent retrieval of the information by the device driver, the subsequent transmission of the information to the frame application via the additional interface and the final transmission of the information to the electronic database on the server then runs automatically.
  • the method is initiated by the frame application, in particular by a in the
  • An alternative variant of the method according to the invention provides that the method is initiated by the device driver, in particular by a flowchart implemented in the device driver.
  • the field devices from which information is retrieved by the respective device driver can be specified: the field devices from which information is retrieved by the respective device driver;
  • the method can also be initiated event driven.
  • Such an event, which initiates the method may be, for example, an update of the field devices or the software components of the host, that is to say the frame application and / or device driver, located in the system.
  • the method may provide the field device specific information used for
  • Serve communication retrieve.
  • these are the device type of the field device, the TAG of the field device, the serial number of the field device, the firmware version of the field device, and / or the like.
  • a diagnostic message from one of the field devices can be defined as an event and initiate the procedure.
  • information related to the diagnostic message and / or relevant to the diagnostic message may be retrieved from the field device and stored in the database.
  • a system for condition monitoring of a plant of process automation which consists of several communication-capable field devices, comprising:
  • a device driver for each of the field devices which accesses the respective field device and retrieves information therefrom, wherein the information is determined by the respective field device and / or generated by the respective field device;
  • Device driver is integrated in the frame application, wherein the respective device driver and the frame application communicate via standardized driver interfaces, and wherein the respective device driver transmits the retrieved information via an additional interface to the frame application;
  • the frame application transmitting the transmitted information to the electronic database and the transmitted information stored on the electronic database and to
  • the frame application downloads information from the database to the database and transmits it to the device driver via the additional interface.
  • the host is a stationary computer unit, for example a Plant Asset Management (PAM) system.
  • the host can also be configured as a mobile operating unit, in particular as a mobile terminal, such as a laptop or a smartphone.
  • the host is connected to the field devices via a network.
  • the network can be a wireless network.
  • any conventional protocol of a wireless network for example Wi-Fi, Bluetooth ®, ZigBee ®, RFID, NFC, etc. or a wireless field bus protocol such as WirelessHART ® can be used.
  • the network can be a wired network.
  • any conventional protocol of a wired network in particular a fieldbus network automation technology, such as Foundation Fieldbus ® , Profibus ® , Profinet ® , HART ® , Modbus ® , Industrial Ethernet, etc. can be used.
  • this network is a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), or the Internet.
  • LAN local area network
  • WAN wide area network
  • Internet the Internet
  • the frame application is an FDT frame application, an FDI frame application or a DD host.
  • the device driver is a device type manager or an EDD.
  • the server is a server reachable by cloud computing. This is in principle accessible through an Internet connection using any Internet-enabled device. To contact the server, an authentication is necessary to protect the stored information against unauthorized access protect.
  • the information determined by the field device and / or information generated by the field device is process values, diagnostic data and / or configuration data.
  • Fig. 1 an embodiment of the system according to the invention.
  • a field device FG is installed to determine a flow rate of a medium in a pipeline.
  • the field device FG may be, inter alia, a magnetic-inductive flowmeter or an ultrasonic flowmeter.
  • the field device FG Via a first network N1, the field device FG is in data connection with a host H.
  • additional network devices may be located between field device FG and host H, for example gateways and / or segment couplers.
  • further field devices FG can be located in the system A, but for reasons of clarity, the invention in FIGS. 1 and 2 is explained only with a single field device FG.
  • the host H is used to operate the field device FG and to read out information I, which generates and determines the field device FG, for example, the current process value of the flow velocity measurement.
  • the host H is a stationary computer unit, for example a Plant Asset Management (PAM) system or a higher-level unit of the network N1.
  • the host H can also be configured as a mobile operating unit, in particular as a mobile terminal, such as a laptop or a smartphone.
  • the network is a wireless or wired network.
  • any common network protocol can be used, in particular a fieldbus protocol of automation technology.
  • Host H has a frame application FR installed.
  • the frame application FR installed.
  • Frame application FR and device driver GT takes place via the FDT standard
  • the system according to the invention also defines an additional interface ZS.
  • the host is further connected to a server S via a second network N2.
  • This server is designed for cloud computing web services and contains a database DB.
  • the second network N2 is in particular an intranet or the Internet. However, any type of network N2 or network protocol can also be used here.
  • the server S is integrated in the first network N 1.
  • the server S is connected to a gateway or similar network subscriber, which is not shown here, which is integrated in the first network N1, and is in communication therewith with the host H.
  • a request to the field device FG is initiated by a user U.
  • the request contains the command to retrieve the current process values from the field device.
  • the method can be initiated by the frame application or by the device driver, in particular by a flowchart implemented in the frame application or in the device driver.
  • the type of information I which are to be retrieved by the field device FG, or which information I is determined and / or generated by the field device before retrieval, can be set. If there is more than one field device FG in the system A, then the flowchart for each field device FG can be set and executed separately.
  • the request can also be initiated event driven.
  • Such an event can be initiated event driven.
  • the request may contain the field device specific information which is used for
  • Communication of the field device FG serve in the first network N1 include.
  • these are the device type of the field device FG, the TAG of the field device FG, the serial number of the field device FG, the firmware version of the field device FG, and / or the like.
  • the request is processed by the frame application FR and via a predetermined by the FDT standard driver interface TS to the device driver GT forwarded.
  • the device driver GT sends a command to the field device FG to determine the current process value of the flow measurement.
  • the field device FG determines the current process value of the flow measurement and generates the information I containing this process value.
  • the device driver retrieves the information I from the field device FG.
  • the field device automatically sends the information I to the device driver as soon as it is available.
  • the device driver GT transmits the information to the frame application FR via an additional interface ZS.
  • a seventh method step 7 the frame application FR processes the information I obtained via the additional interface ZS. It may here be provided that the
  • Frame application FR of the transmitted information I adds additional information.
  • These are, in particular, the tag of the field device FG, the serial number of the field device FG and / or the communication structure of the field device FG.
  • the communication structure of the field device refers to the connection of the field device FG in the first network N1.
  • the field device FG can for example be connected directly to the host H, on which the
  • Frame application is executed.
  • further network devices for example gateways, segment couplers or the like, can also be arranged between host H and field device FG. It may also be provided to add status information possibly further in the first network N1 adjacent field devices FG as additional information in order to facilitate a possible troubleshooting in a diagnostic case.
  • the frame application FR establishes a data connection via the host H to the server S on which the database DB is implemented.
  • the data connection between Host H and Server S does not have to be permanent. It may be provided that the data connection is always established when new information I is to be transmitted from the frame application FR to the database DB. It can also be provided to establish the data connection at preset times. In this case, the frame application collects all newly received information I and transmits it to the database DB as soon as a
  • a final eighth method step 8 the information is transferred to the database DB of the server S.
  • the information is stored in a predetermined manner on the database DB. As a result, all information is stored consistently in the database DB, which facilitates subsequent processing or retrieval of this information I.
  • Condition monitoring or for preventive maintenance of the field device FG be retrieved by the user U or a program of the user U.
  • an authentication is necessary in order to protect the information I stored in the database DB against unauthorized access.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé et un système de surveillance de l'état d'une installation (A) pour l'automatisation de processus, laquelle comprend une pluralité d'appareils de terrain (FG) aptes à communiquer, un pilote d'appareil (GT) étant associé à chaque appareil de terrain (FG), lequel pilote est intégré dans une application de structure (FR) et chaque pilote d'appareil (GT) et l'application de structure (FR) communiquant au moyen d'interfaces pilotes (TS) normalisées, ledit procédé et ledit système comprenant : l'extraction d'informations (I) à partir d'au moins un des appareils de terrain (FG) au moyen du pilote d'appareil associé (GT) ; la transmission des informations extraites (I), au moyen d'une interface supplémentaire (ZS), à l'application de structure (FR) ; l'envoie des informations transmises (I), au moyen de l'application de structure (FR), à une base de données électronique (DB) et le stockage des informations transmises (I) dans la base de données (DB) ; et la surveillance de l'état des appareils de terrain (FG) sur la base des informations (I) stockées dans la base de données électronique (DB).
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