AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF FIELD DEVICES FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT

A computer-implemented method (100) for configuring a field device (2) for use in an industrial plant (1), comprising the steps of:* creating (110), from device description information of the field device (2), and/or from a template configuration, T, stored in association with the field device (2) and/or in association with a type of the field device (2), an instance (2a) of a configuration for the field device (2);* setting (120) values of configuration parameters (2b) in the instance (2a) to default values given by the device description information, and/or to values given by the template T;* determining (130) semantic meanings (2b*) of configuration parameters (2b) in the instance (2a);* obtaining (140), from a data store (3), values of configuration parameters (3b) stored in association with the field device (2) and semantic meanings (3b*);* writing (150) each value obtained from the data store (3) to a configuration parameter (2b) in the instance (2a) whose semantic meaning (2b*) matches the semantic meaning (3b*) of the value; and* provisioning (170) the field device (2) with the instance (2a) of the configuration.