Industrial automation systems are based on open standard architectures definitions, in most cases proprietary technologies. In fieldbuses, the standard technology that describes the devices characteristics to the configuration software (HMI) - human machine interface, is proprietary and has high cost, named EDD (Electronic Device Description). Alternatively, the Open-EDD (Open Electronic Device Description) is an open and non-proprietary technology based on software standards. This paper describes the usage and validation of Open-EDD in two different applications: a real fieldbus system and a fieldbus simulation environment. The results validate the proposed technology and indicate that this can be applied to general fieldbus systems.
Open technology; Non-proprietary technology; XML; Device description; FOUNDATION FieldbusTM; Interoperability; Industrial automation system
