Device information setting apparatus and device information setting method

• US 8,682,459 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2010
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Jinguu, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Ali, Mohammad
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sivanesan, Sivalingam
• Application Number:
  US12/904,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20110093097A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,258 Days
• Field of Search: 700/86
• US Class Current: 700/86
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25428 Field device

Abstract

There is provided a device information setting apparatus. The apparatus includes: a storage format storing unit configured to store a first storage format of first device information in a first field device and a second storage format of second device information in a second field device; an acquiring unit configured to acquire the first device information based on the first storage format; a conversion unit configured to convert the first device information into the second device information, based on the second storage format; and a writing unit configured to write the second device information in the second field device.

Claims

1. A device information setting apparatus, comprising:

a storage format storing unit configured to store a first storage format of first device information in a first field device and a second storage format of second device information in a second field device, wherein the first storage format comprises information indicating storage areas of device parameters and an operation log in the first field device and the second storage format comprises information indicating storage areas of device parameters and an operation log in the second field device;

an acquiring unit, implemented by a hardware processor, configured to acquire the first device information based on the first storage format;

a conversion unit, implemented by the hardware processor, configured to convert the first device information into the second device information, based on the second storage format by replacing the device parameters of the second field device with the device parameters of the first field device and replacing the operation log of the second field device with the operation log of the first field device; and

a writing unit, implemented by the hardware processor, configured to write the second device information in the second field device.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the conversion unit is configured to covert the first device information into the second device information such that values of parameters having the same label name, which are included in the first and second device information, are equal to each other.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction to associate parameters included in the first and second device information, and

wherein the conversion unit is configured to convert the first device information into the second device information such that the values of the associated parameters are equal to each other in accordance with the instruction received by the receiving unit.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a user designates a parameter of the second field device to be associated with a selected parameter of the first field device.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation log is history data corresponding to writing, editing or erasing of the first device information data in the first field device.

6. A device information setting method, comprising:

(a) storing a first storage format of first device information in a first field device, the first storage format comprising information indicating storage areas of device parameters and an operation log in the first field device;

(b) storing a second storage format of second device information in a second field device, the second storage format comprising information indicating storage areas of device parameters and an operation log in the second field device;

(c) acquiring, by a hardware processor, first device information, based on the first storage format;

(d) converting, by the hardware processor, the first device information into second device information, based on the second storage format by replacing the device parameters of the second field device with the device parameters of the first field device and replacing the operation log of the second field device with the operation log of the first field device; and

(e) writing, by the hardware processor, the second device information in the second field device.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein step (d) comprises:

converting the first device information into the second device information such that the values of parameters having the same label name, which are included in the first and second device information, are equal to each other.

8. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

(f) receiving an instruction to associate parameters included in the first and second device information, and

wherein step (d) comprises;

converting the first device information into the second device information such that the values of the associated parameters are equal to each other in accordance with the instruction in step (f).

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a user designates a parameter of the second field device to be associated with a selected parameter of the first field device.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the operation log is history data corresponding to writing, editing or erasing of the first device information data in the first field device.