A field device and method for parameterizing a field device via a parameter, wherein to provide validation, a first checking characteristic is calculated by the field device based on the parameter and a device ID stored, where the first checking characteristic is transferred to an engineering system, the parameter to be validated and the device ID are additionally transferred to the engineering system and are output on a display, where to confirm correct parameterization, a user can input the read first checking characteristic at an operating unit of the engineering system, which first checking characteristic is then transferred back to the field device, where the received checking characteristic is compared with the calculated checking characteristic to validate the parameter such that external calculations of checking characteristics are advantageously unrequired and relation of the validation to the correct field device is ensured.

The present invention relates to a method for operating an automation field device, having an input interface, a memory which stores at least one set of parameters for operating the field device, and having a first communication interface, wherein, if at least one parameter in the set of parameters is changed by a first entity, the following steps are carried out in the following order: transmitting at least the changed parameter(s) and/or data calculated therefrom to a superordinate unit, informing a second entity of the change.

A system for monitoring a power system and controlling an operation is provided. The system includes: a process setting unit receiving a process modeling file from a user and setting, as a process setting model, a process modeling file on which process verification is completed; a process verification unit performing the verification of preset process modeling items on the process modeling files received from the user; and a data storage unit storing file information for the operation of a system, the process modeling file, process modeling verification results, and the process setting file.

An engineering tool for testing a process control system includes one or more test manager instances. Each test manager instance includes circuitry that receives test cases and associated test requests. The circuitry also identifies a target for each test request, translates each test request into instructions to the identified target, checks each test request for validity, initiates execution of each test case, monitors subscribed data generated by the target, computes a difference between the subscribed data at a first point in time and a second point in time, and generates a notification when the computed difference is greater than a predetermined threshold.

A method and apparatus for parameterizing a device with parameters from a parameter list, wherein in an event of a match occurring between an external parameter token calculated externally based on the parameter list, and an internal parameter token calculated internally by the device to be parameterized based on the parameter list, an external device token input into the device is compared with an internal device token, which is calculated internally by the device to be parameterized based on a device ID for the device and the internal parameter token to validate the parameter list such that fast and reliable parameterization of a device, particularly a safety critical device, which is provided in an industrial installation or a vehicle, is achieved.

An engineering tool for testing a process control system includes one or more test manager instances. Each test manager instance includes circuitry that receives test cases and associated test requests. The circuitry also identifies a target for each test request, translates each test request into instructions to the identified target, checks each test request for validity, initiates execution of each test case, monitors subscribed data generated by the target, computes a difference between the subscribed data at a first point in time and a second point in time, and generates a notification when the computed difference is greater than a predetermined threshold.

There is provided a technique capable of easily identifying information related to a valid setting item used in a substrate processing apparatus when performing a file editing in a display processing apparatus. There is provided a technique that includes: a memory configured to store a file containing a plurality of items for each of a plurality of categories, setting values for each of the plurality of items and validity information indicating whether the setting values for each of the plurality of items are valid, wherein process conditions for a substrate are classified into the plurality of categories; a display configured to display the validity information and the setting values for each of the plurality of items classified for each of the plurality of categories on a screen for each of the categories; and a manipulator configured to perform an edit operation on the validity information displayed on the screen.