Abstract: Disclosed is an automation field device, comprising a sensor unit for registering a physical, measured variable of a medium; a first communication interface for connecting to a first communication network; a second communication interface for connecting to a second communication network; a first electronics unit embodied to convert the physical, measured variable registered by the sensor unit into a measured value, to provide the measured value via the first communication interface to the first communication network and to generate diagnostic- and/or maintenance information; a transmitting unit contained in the first electronics unit and embodied to transmit the diagnostic- and/or maintenance information generated by the first electronics unit; a second electronics unit including a receiving unit embodied to receive the diagnostic- and/or maintenance information transmitted by the transmitting unit embodied to provide the diagnostic- and/or maintenance information via the second communication interface to the

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a process automation system, a plurality of measuring points being provided in the system, said method comprising: detecting movements, of people located within the system and/or objects, especially robots, vehicles and/or machines, which are not located at the measuring points; calculating stay data containing moments of the stay and/or the respective duration of the stay, the respective people and/or objects at the individual measuring points on the basis of the detected movements; and evaluating the stay data in terms of defined noticeable problems.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a generic diagnosis model at a node of an automation network, wherein the automation network has multiple subordinate field bus segments, each having multiple field bus subscribers, connected to the node and the method comprises the following steps: provision of specific diagnosis information by the field bus subscribers of the respective field bus segment; combination of the specific diagnosis information provided by the field bus subscribers at the node; transfer of all combined diagnosis information to the generic diagnosis model, wherein the specific diagnosis information is additionally enriched with meta information, so that the generic diagnosis model can be used to access specific diagnosis information of the respective field bus subscriber.