PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND PROCESSING APPLIANCE FOR ONE SUCH PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to a process automation system wherein process appliances (1 to 6) carry out pre-determined functions in terms of the process automation and interchange functional and/or appliance-related data (23, 24) with the process automation system, at least one part of the data (23, 24) being interchanged in an encoded manner.