Invensys Systems, Inc.

Kevin G Rowley

Pankaj H Mody

Derrick C Jones

James P McIntyre

Greg C Clinton

Dale P Brandenburg

A centralized diagnostics management tool is disclosed that facilitates centralized monitoring of distributed components of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application. The centralized diagnostics management tool includes a diagnostics management console shell that is customized according to a set of software modules that interface to data sources to populate views supported by the console shell. The console shell includes a set of view templates including controls for manipulating graphically displayed representations of data rendered by the distributed components. The console shell also includes an interface for exchanging requests and data with an extensible set of software modules that provide data links to ones of the set of distributed components. The software modules also define the customizable portions of the view rendered by the console shell.

Remotely monitoring/diagnosing distributed components of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application from a central location

A method is disclosed, in a supervisory process control system environment, for installing supervisory process control software from a central software deployment server. The software distribution method includes the step of first specifying a software component for a supervisory process control application to be deployed to a remote location and a destination for the software component based upon a distributed application configuration. A software component is conditionally transmitted to the remote supervisory control computer, after the determining step, if the software component for the supervisory process control application is not present at the remote location.

Installing supervisory process control and manufacturing software from a remote location and maintaining configuration data links in a run-time environment

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San Marcos, CA, United States of America

Kevin G Rowley