Investigations of improvements of the information flow during the commissioning of devices

The information flow between field device and Distributed Control System (DCS) is sometimes incomplete when handling difficult failures such as a device breakdown and a subsequent re-commissioning of the plant. Therefore very often manual configurations on the substituted device are necessary. These inter­actions require well educated staff. The project investigated solutions to improve the re-commissioning automatically in relation to the required data and information flow inside the DCS. In addition, ifak investigates how the engineering process can be improved, such as phases from P&I diagrams up to device parameterisation.