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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2023
Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark J. Nixon, Thorndale, TX (US);
Claudio Fayad, Austin, TX (US);
Robert G. Halgren, III, Austin, TX (US);
Anthony Amaro, Jr., Cedar Park, TX (US);
Peter Hartmann, Austin, TX (US);
Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Austin, TX (US);
Seshatre Natarajan, Austin, TX (US);
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A distributed control system (DCS) of an industrial process plant includes a data center storing a plant information model that includes a description of physical components, the control framework, and the control network of the plant using a modeling language. A set of exposed APIs provides DCS applications access to the model, and to an optional generic framework of the data center which stores basic structures and functions from which the DCS may automatically generate other structures and functions to populate the model and to automatically create various applications and routines utilized during run-time operations of the DCS and plant. Upon initialization, the DCS may automatically sense the I/O types of its interface ports, detect communicatively connected physical components within the plant, and automatically populate the plant information model accordingly. The DCS may optionally automatically generate related control routines and/or I/O data delivery mechanisms, HMI routines, and the like.