The Asset Management Box – Making Information about Intelligent Field Devices accessible without Configuration

The increasing spread of fieldbus installations in indus-trial environment leads to increased amount of informa-tion and a large number of new innovative functional-ities. These are not only important for classical tasks of process control engineering (like plant and process supervision or process control), but also for advanced functions, like synthesise plant data for the economical optimisation of technical system support. In industrial practice one can observe that function-ality and information provided by new generation field devices is used only inadequately, since it can only be integrated with considerable expenditure into varying applications. Addressing this problem, the concept of the As