Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell G.m.b.h.

Peter C Davis

Graeme Laycock

Paul Francis McLaughlin

John David Morrison

David Barry Granatelli

Rohan McAdam

Mark Cockburn

Rhett Heath Newman

Ian K Canavan

Stephen R McGeorge

Paul Vellacott

Andrew Arulanandom

Shailesh Rasane

Vic Hsieh

A method includes determining a current situation to be present in a process controlled by an industrial process control and automation system (IPCS) that includes at least one process controller coupled to input output (I/O) modules coupled to field devices including sensors and actuators that are coupled to processing equipment. Responsive to the current situation, displaying a plurality of suggested actions each including at least one step in a selectable panel in a human machine interface (HMI) associated with an operator computing system for an operator that is coupled to the process controller. Responsive to the displaying, the operator selects in the selectable panel at least one of the plurality of suggested actions (selected action). The selecting of the selected action results in the IPCS automatically implementing at least in part the step(s) associated with the selected action.

Operator console providing guidance for operator decisions

A method includes creating, in a secure platform, multiple securely-partitioned system sandboxes under control of at least one user associated with an industrial process control and automation system. Different system sandboxes are associated with different third parties who are not owners or operators of the industrial process control and automation system. The method also includes receiving content from the third parties in the system sandboxes. The method further includes receiving from the at least one user a selective activation of at least some of the content in the system sandboxes in order to place the at least some of the content into use by the industrial process control and automation system. The content could include equipment configurations for equipment associated with the industrial process control and automation system, and the equipment configurations could include control strategies and visualizations for the equipment.

Secure approach for providing combined environment for owners/operators and multiple third parties to cooperatively engineer, operate, and maintain an industrial process control and automation system

Described herein are frameworks, devices and methods configured for enabling display for facility information and content, in some cases via touch/gesture controlled interfaces. Embodiments of the invention have been particularly developed for allowing an operator to conveniently access a wide range of information relating to a facility via, for example, one or more wall mounted displays. While some embodiments will be described herein with particular reference to that application, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to such a field of use, and is applicable in broader contexts.

Frameworks, devices and methods configured for enabling a multi-modal user interface configured to display facility information

The present invention provides systems and methods for controlling processes of a process facility and, in particular, for distributing data among nodes of a real time process control system controlling such a facility. An exemplary process control system includes a plurality of sensors, controllable devices, and communication paths, and a computer system. The sensors and controllable devices are associated with various ones of the processes of the process facility, and the communication paths couple the sensors and controllable devices to the computer system. The computer system operates on data related to the process facility, and distributes the data among both client and process nodes. The client nodes desire data associated with processes of the facility and the process nodes control such process data. The computer system includes (i) a cache having a short access time for retrieving records, and (ii) a supervisory controller, associated with the client and process nodes, that controls storage of the process data in the cache and selectively transfers the process data from the cache to the client nodes.

Systems and methods for implementing a dynamic cache in a supervisory

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Killara, Australia

Peter C Davis