METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DIGITAL TWIN FOR A NONDIGITAL AUTOMATION ENGINEERING FIELD DEVICE

A method for providing a digital twin for a nondigital automation engineering field device, comprising the following method steps: connecting a connecting unit to the nondigital field device; downloading data concerning the connecting unit that are held in the nondigital field device; producing a timestamp for the downloaded data; transmitting the downloaded data together with the timestamp to a cloud; instantiating a digital image of the nondigital field device in the cloud; producing and providing an authenticated link for downloading the digital twin; downloading the digital twin; linking the digital twin executed on the computer unit to a product database located in the cloud; checking whether the product data held in the product database have undergone a change in comparison with the data that were supplied to the digital image at the time of the timestamp.