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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2009
James Randall Balentine, Austin, TX (US);
Gary Keith Law, Georgetown, TX (US);
Mark Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
James Randall Balentine, Austin, TX (US);
Gary Keith Law, Georgetown, TX (US);
Mark Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Example methods and apparatus to configure a process control system using an electronic description language (EDL) script are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises loading a first script representative of a process plant, the first script comprising an interpretive system-level script structured in accordance with an electronic description language, and compiling the first script to form a second script, the second script structured in accordance with a vendor-specific configuration language associated with a particular process control system for the process plant.