Abstract: A field device and method for starting up an industrial automation network, wherein to allow virtual start-up of at least one field device, an field device integration package is provided, whose user interface plug-in has an extension that allows a software tool to access a simulation model for the behavior of the at least one field device, and upon virtual start-up, the simulation model is used to reproduce the response of the field device, where a process model or interfacing of an external process model via a co-simulation coupling can also be used to stimulate the reproduced field device behavior, and where because the models with the FDI package are provided by the field device manufacturer, correct simulation and hence minimization of the risks upon start-up of industrial installations can be expected.

Abstract: A field device and method for starting up an industrial automation network, wherein to allow virtual start-up of at least one field device, an field device integration package is provided, whose user interface plug-in has an extension that allows a software tool to access a simulation model for the behavior of the at least one field device, and upon virtual start-up, the simulation model is used to reproduce the response of the field device, where a process model or interfacing of an external process model via a co-simulation coupling can also be used to stimulate the reproduced field device behavior, and where because the models with the FDI package are provided by the field device manufacturer, correct simulation and hence minimization of the risks upon start-up of industrial installations can be expected.

Abstract: A method for operating a process automation system that is configured to control an industrial process and/or traffic-control signals, wherein the process automation system includes field devices arranged in a field of the industrial process and a central controller unit for controlling the process through the field devices, where the central controller unit generates control data for the field devices by running a control program, where the control program forms a browser executable application that receives and processes field data from the field devices and generates and sends out the control data, and where the central controller unit executes an internet browser program and the internet browser program runs the application.

Abstract: The resource consumption of automation systems having a service-oriented architecture is monitored by determining individual parameters for the resource requirement and the processing performance for individual subfunctions, respectively, within the service-oriented architecture. Critical subfunctions can therefore be reliably identified and adapted, if necessary, by individually analyzing the processing parameters for individual subfunctions during event-controlled processing.