Schneider Electric Systems Usa, Inc.

Krishna Rao Mendu

Christopher Hu

Alan Andrew Gale

Richard Linwood Linscott

Johan Ingemar Tegnell

Thomas A Nery

Naveen Kumar

Capturing messages exchanged with field devices in an industrial process without disrupting communication of the messages. A diagnostic driver embedded within a gateway device detects abnormal conditions in connections between the gateway device and the field devices. The diagnostic driver captures messages indicative of the abnormal condition without disrupting message communication. The driver is capable of transmitting captured messages, on demand, to a workstation computing device for diagnosis of the abnormal condition.

Disruptionless message capturing within an industrial control system

Controlling and communicating with separate sets of industrial process control devices via separate data protocols simultaneously with a single processing device that utilizes redundancy and task-splitting to increase availability. An exemplary system includes a device integrator processor configured to receive and transmit electronic data via a plurality of protocols simultaneously. In one form, the device integrator processor includes a primary module that primarily controls communications and synchronizes itself with a shadow module of the processor. In another form, the processor includes multiple cores that each control a set of devices. Moreover, the cores implement a redundancy scheme.

Multi-protocol gateway with control in a process control system

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Canton, MA, United States of America

Krishna Rao Mendu