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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
Mark John Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Larry Oscar Jundt, Round Rock, TX (US);
John Michael Lucas, Lutterworth, GB;
Dennis Stevenson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nancy Stevenson, Legal Representative, Round Rock, TX (US);
Julian Kevin Naidoo, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Herschel Odis Koska, Ii, San Marcos, TX (US);
Mark John Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Larry Oscar Jundt, Round Rock, TX (US);
John Michael Lucas, Lutterworth, GB;
Dennis Stevenson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Nancy Stevenson, legal representative, Round Rock, TX (US);
Julian Kevin Naidoo, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Herschel Odis Koska, II, San Marcos, TX (US);
Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and module class objects to configure equipment absences in process plants are disclosed. An example disclosed method of creating a configuration entity for use in configuring a process plant comprises creating a class object representative of a process entity within the process plant that includes a first data structure representative of one or more process elements that make up the process entity; and creating a module object based on the class object that includes a second data structure, the second data structure to include a configurable first indication to represent whether a specific process element that conforms to a first one of the one or more process elements that make up the process entity is absent.