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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2014
Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US);
Keith E. Eldridge, North Easton, MA (US);
James William Hemenway, West Wareham, MA (US);
Franciscus Marie Middeldorp, Foxboro, MA (US);
Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US);
Abstract
Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control strategies to other control strategies, GUI-based designation of object execution order, automatically applied line styles based upon connection data type, and automatic modification of elements within an appearance object to accommodate a moved attribute.