公开(公告)号：US20200313960A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-01

申请号：US16459264

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.

Inventor： John Rosa-Bian ,  Joseph Pradeep Felix ,  Paul Francis McLaughlin

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A network control system within an industrial processing facility (IPF) includes a controller platforms coupled to one another by a private path redundancy network providing a controller pool, each controller platform having at least one controller including computing hardware and a memory. An application module (AM) pool includes a plurality of AMs, wherein the controller platforms are coupled by an input/output mesh network to input/output devices coupled to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment in the IPF. A control application module orchestrator (CAMO) coupled to the plant-wide network is for dynamically deploying the AM's to the controller platforms, wherein the CAMO receives resource consumption attribute data regarding the controller platforms including a pool of available storage in the memory and processing resources available for the computer hardware. Based on the resource consumption attributes, the plurality of AMs are at least partially automatically deployed to the controller platforms.

公开(公告)号：US20200310920A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-01

申请号：US16502692

申请日：2019-07-03

Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.

Inventor： Paul Francis McLaughlin ,  Jason Thomas Urso ,  James Michael Schreder ,  John Rosa-Bian ,  Norman Swanson ,  Jethro F. Steinman

IPC: G06F11/14 ,  G06F13/42 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G05B19/418

Abstract: A method of fault-tolerant process control includes providing a network process control system in an industrial processing facility (IPF) including a plant-wide network coupling a server to computing platforms each including computing hardware and memory hosting a software application for simultaneously supporting a process controller and another process controller or an I/O gateway. The computing platforms are coupled together by a private path redundancy network for providing a hardware resource pool. At least some of the computing platforms are directly coupled by an I/O mesh network to a plurality of I/O devices to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment. Upon detecting at least one failing device in the hardware resource pool, over the private path redundancy network a backup is placed into service for the failing device from the another process controller or I/O gateway that is at another of the computing platforms in the hardware resource pool.

公开(公告)号：US11481282B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-25

申请号：US16502692

申请日：2019-07-03

Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.

Inventor： Paul Francis McLaughlin ,  Jason Thomas Urso ,  James Michael Schreder ,  John Rosa-Bian ,  Norman Swanson ,  Jethro F. Steinman

IPC: G06F11/00 ,  G06F11/14 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F13/42

Abstract: A method of fault-tolerant process control includes providing a network process control system in an industrial processing facility (IPF) including a plant-wide network coupling a server to computing platforms each including computing hardware and memory hosting a software application for simultaneously supporting a process controller and another process controller or an I/O gateway. The computing platforms are coupled together by a private path redundancy network for providing a hardware resource pool. At least some of the computing platforms are directly coupled by an I/O mesh network to a plurality of I/O devices to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment. Upon detecting at least one failing device in the hardware resource pool, over the private path redundancy network a backup is placed into service for the failing device from the another process controller or I/O gateway that is at another of the computing platforms in the hardware resource pool.

公开(公告)号：US20220091922A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US16948565

申请日：2020-09-23

Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.

Inventor： Paul Francis McLaughlin ,  Christopher Paul Ladas

IPC: G06F11/07 ,  G06F9/455 ,  G05B19/4155

Abstract: An implementation is for one or more hardware-based non-transitory memory devices storing computer-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors disposed in a computing device, cause the computing device to monitor a logic block and a memory block to detect a fault condition, determine a subset of the logic block or the memory block that is impacted by the fault condition, and perform at least one action on the logic block and the memory block.

公开(公告)号：US20210303499A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

申请号：US16835732

申请日：2020-03-31

Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.

Inventor： Paul Francis McLaughlin ,  Joseph Pradeep Felix ,  James Michael Schreder ,  John Rosa-Bian ,  Jason Thomas Urso

IPC: G06F13/40 ,  G05B19/042

Abstract: A process control system includes a first process controller coupled to a first set of input/output (I/O) modules that provided first channels, including an I/O software agent coupled to an I/O module pool that includes a first and at least a second I/O module collectively providing pooled channels. The first channels and the pooled channels are each coupled by a respective field device to first and second processing equipment, respectively. The I/O software agent is configured for enabling addition of the first set of I/O modules to the LO module pool, coupling of a plurality of additional process controllers in a controller pool to the first process controller, and enabling at least one of i) making any of the first channels available to any of the process controllers in the controller pool, and ii) making any of the pooled channels available to the first process controller.

公开(公告)号：US20200320024A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16377239

申请日：2019-04-07

Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.

Inventor： Paul Francis McLaughlin ,  Christopher Paul Ladas ,  Angela Lee Lordi ,  James Michael Schreder ,  Stanley Robert Gorzelic

IPC: G06F13/12 ,  G05B19/418

Abstract: An industrial automation system employing a mesh topology of input/output allows flexibility in pairing field devices and controllers though the I/O mesh. Field devices can be connected to the geographically closest I/O module channel without regard to the location of the necessary controller. Modular prefabrication and deployment of the I/O modules becomes less complex and less time consuming thereby reducing costs.