Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Uduak Daniels

Youshan Ma

Nicholas J Pengilly

Eyade Housin Subahe

Osamah A Bankhar

A system and method perform automatic switching of multiple vendor controllers with an interfaced input/output device. The method comprises storing parameters in a memory, wherein the parameters specify each type of instrument controller in a respective one of a plurality of vendor classes, and automatically switching a signal between an instrument and at least one of a first instrument controller of a first vendor class and a second instrument controller of a second vendor class using the parameters, wherein the first vendor class and the second vendor class are different. The system and an automatic input/output switch controller implement the method.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Uduak Daniels