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公开(公告)号:US12078981B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-03
申请号:US18086875
申请日:2022-12-22
发明人: Mark J. Nixon , David R. Denison , Hoa Van Lai , Ken J. Beoughter , Daniel R. Strinden , Mariana C. Dionisio , Kim Ordean Van Camp , Matthew William Poplawski
IPC分类号: G05B19/418 , G05B15/02 , G06F3/0482 , G06F16/242 , G06F16/248 , G06F16/951 , H04L9/40 , H04L12/40 , H04L12/46 , H04L41/06 , H04L41/069 , H04L41/0806 , H04L43/045 , H04L43/10 , H04L65/1083 , H04L65/70 , H04L67/00 , H04L67/01 , H04L67/10 , H04L67/125 , H04L67/75 , H04M1/72472 , H04W12/06 , H04W12/088 , H04L67/55
CPC分类号: G05B19/41855 , G05B15/02 , G06F3/0482 , G06F16/2428 , G06F16/248 , G06F16/951 , H04L12/40 , H04L12/4625 , H04L41/06 , H04L41/069 , H04L41/0806 , H04L43/045 , H04L43/10 , H04L63/0218 , H04L65/1083 , H04L65/70 , H04L67/01 , H04L67/10 , H04L67/125 , H04L67/34 , H04L67/75 , H04M1/72472 , H04W12/06 , H04W12/088 , G05B2219/31105 , G05B2219/31246 , G05B2219/31457 , H04L67/55 , Y02P90/02
摘要: A system for securely disseminating information relating to a process control plant includes a process control node and a controller that is coupled to a plurality of process control devices. The process control node includes a communicator module operable to transmit, via a first network, information of the process plant received from the controller. The system also includes a data services module operable to receive from the communicator module, via the first network, the information of the process plant and to transmit some or all of that information via a second network, and a mobile server, coupled to the second network and to a third network, and operable to receive data from the data services module. The mobile server is operable to communicate with a plurality of mobile computing devices via the third network.
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公开(公告)号:US20240235893A9
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18480036
申请日:2023-10-03
发明人: Aaron Crews , Duncan Schleiss , Nobin William , Marc Troy
IPC分类号: H04L12/66 , H04L67/025 , H04L67/10
CPC分类号: H04L12/66 , H04L67/025 , H04L67/10
摘要: Gateway devices, systems, and methods for facilitating control system upgrades including hosting a web application via a gateway device that permits configuration of the gateway device via a web browser. A redundant gateway system can be implemented such that both a primary gateway device and a secondary gateway device are used in conjunction. The web application can provide significant advantages in terms of ease of configurability and integration of legacy input/output (I/O) systems to facilitate control system upgrades in a variety of applications.
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公开(公告)号:US20240232164A9
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18375735
申请日:2023-10-02
发明人: Antonio Ubach , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Sean Hernandez , Mark J. Nixon , Sireesha Dakoju , Krishna Joshi
CPC分类号: G06F16/2358 , G06F16/211 , G06F16/2272
摘要: An enterprise engineering and configuration system includes a common configuration database and support services stored in and executed in a compute fabric of an enterprise. The configuration database and support services use and implement a common configuration data schema to support the configuration of hardware and software in the compute fabric and at multiple different sites or physical locations of the enterprise even when different control and automation systems are used at these different sites or physical locations. The configuration system enables implementing hardware or software configuration changes to various different sites or locations of an enterprise either centrally from a configuration device connected directly to the compute fabric of the enterprise or locally from any physical location or site of the enterprise, while maintaining a single integrated enterprise configuration database that stores configuration data for each of the multiple sites of the enterprise. This configuration system is flexible as it enables engineering and configuration changes to be made by users anywhere in the enterprise for any of the sites of the enterprise and across different sites of the enterprise.
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公开(公告)号:US12019431B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-25
申请号:US18116446
申请日:2023-03-02
IPC分类号: G05B19/418 , G05B17/00 , G06F9/30 , G06F13/40 , H04L67/12
CPC分类号: G05B19/41885 , G05B19/4183 , G05B19/41835 , G05B19/41845 , G05B19/4185 , G05B19/41865 , G06F9/3017 , G06F13/4022 , H04L67/12 , G05B17/00 , G05B2219/13125 , G05B2219/13185 , G05B2219/2214 , G05B2219/31231 , G05B2219/32301 , G05B2219/32343 , G05B2219/32355 , G05B2219/32359 , G05B2219/32407 , G05B2219/40311
摘要: A Multi-Purpose Dynamic Simulation and run-time Control platform includes a virtual process environment coupled to a physical process environment, where components/nodes of the virtual and physical process environments cooperate to dynamically perform run-time process control of an industrial process plant and/or simulations thereof. Virtual components may include virtual run-time nodes and/or simulated nodes. The MPDSC includes an I/O Switch which delivers I/O data between virtual and/or physical nodes, e.g., by using publish/subscribe mechanisms, thereby virtualizing physical I/O process data delivery. Nodes serviced by the I/O Switch may include respective component behavior modules that are unaware as to whether or not they are being utilized on a virtual or physical node. Simulations may be performed in real-time and even in conjunction with run-time operations of the plant, and/or simulations may be manipulated as desired (speed, values, administration, etc.). The platform simultaneously supports simulation and run-time operations and interactions/intersections therebetween.
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公开(公告)号:US12014300B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-18
申请号:US17136866
申请日:2020-12-29
发明人: Steven R. Dillon
IPC分类号: G06Q10/06 , G06Q10/0631 , H04W40/12 , H04W40/24
CPC分类号: G06Q10/063114 , H04W40/12 , H04W40/246 , H04W40/248
摘要: Generating a maintenance route in a process control system includes creating an initial ordered list of all wireless nodes in direct communication with a wireless gateway, where the nodes are ordered by signal strength with the wireless gateway device. A subsequent ordered list is created of all nodes in direct communication with first node of the initial ordered list, where the nodes are ordered by signal strength with the first node. The subsequent ordered list is then appended to the initial ordered list after the first node. This process of creating a subsequent list and appending the initial list is iteratively repeated thereafter, each time accounting for the next node in the appended ordered list following the previous iteration until all nodes are accounted for. In the last iteration, the nodes correspond to stop points along the route and the order corresponds to the route to be taken among the stop points.
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公开(公告)号:US12007747B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-11
申请号:US17487609
申请日:2021-09-28
发明人: Anthony Amaro, Jr. , Mark J. Nixon , Gary K. Law , Claudio Fayad
IPC分类号: G05B19/4155 , G06F9/50
CPC分类号: G05B19/4155 , G06F9/5077 , G05B2219/31229 , G06F2209/503
摘要: A software defined (SD) process control system (SDCS) implements controller and other process control-related business logic as logical abstractions (e.g., application layer services executing in containers, VMs, etc.) decoupled from hardware and software computing platform resources. An SD networking layer of the SDCS utilizes process control-specific operating system support services to manage the usage of the computing platform resources and the creation, deletion, modifications, and networking of application layer services with devices disposed in the field environment and with other services, responsive to the requirements and needs of the business logic and dynamically changing conditions of SDCS hardware and/or software assets during run-time of the process plant (such as performance, faults, addition/deletion of hardware and/or software assets, etc.). Thus, dynamic (re-)allocation of hardware/software resources is primarily, if not entirely, and continually governed in real-time by present requirements and needs of application layer services as well as dynamically changing SDCS conditions.
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公开(公告)号:US11977717B2
公开(公告)日:2024-05-07
申请号:US17982107
申请日:2022-11-07
发明人: Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy , Ryan Gallardo Valderama , Dino Anton Yu , Mariana Dionisio , Daniel R. Strinden , Mark J. Nixon
IPC分类号: G06F3/0482 , G05B15/02
CPC分类号: G06F3/0482 , G05B15/02 , G06F2203/04803 , G06F2203/04806
摘要: Graphical user interface (GUI) based systems and methods are disclosed for regionizing full-size process plant displays for rendering on mobile user interface devices. A regionizer application receives a full-size process plant display that graphically represents at least a portion of a process plant that includes graphic representations of a plurality of process plant entities. The regionizer app determines display region(s) of the full-size process plant display that define corresponding view portions of the full-size process plant display. The display regions are transmitted to a mobile user interface device for rendering by a mobile display navigation app. The GUI based systems and methods can also automatically detect graphical process control loop display portions within full-size process plant displays for rendering on mobile user interface devices. The GUI based systems and methods can further refactor full-size process plant displays at various zoom and detail levels for visualization on mobile user interface devices.
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公开(公告)号:US20240134360A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-25
申请号:US18381957
申请日:2023-10-18
IPC分类号: G05B19/418
CPC分类号: G05B19/41865 , G05B19/4185
摘要: To provide enhanced search capabilities in a process control system, a knowledge repository is generated that includes both contextual data and time series data. The contextual data organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the knowledge repository. The contextual data categorizes process parameters so that users can search for a particular process parameter category. Users can tag previous searches to execute them once again at a later time. Users can also execute queries for predicted or future states of process plant entities, batch queries regarding batch processes, soft sensor analytics and monitoring applications, parameter lifecycle applications, perturbation applications, step testing applications, or batch provisioning and scheduling applications using the knowledge repository.
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公开(公告)号:US11960473B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-16
申请号:US16248323
申请日:2019-01-15
发明人: Mark J. Nixon , Gary K. Law , William McCormick , Claudio Fayad
CPC分类号: G06F16/2379 , G05B19/41855 , G06F16/27 , H04L9/0637 , H04L9/0643 , H04L9/3247 , G05B2219/31151 , H04L9/50
摘要: To provide a trusted, secure, and immutable record of transactions within a process plant, techniques are described for utilizing a distributed ledger in process control systems. The distributed ledger may be maintained by nodes which receive transactions broadcasted from field devices, controllers, operator workstations, or other devices operating within the process plant. The transactions may include process plant data, such as process parameter data, product parameter data, configuration data, user interaction data, maintenance data, commissioning data, plant network data, and product tracking data. The distributed ledgers may also be utilized to execute smart contracts to allow machines such as field devices to transact by themselves without human intervention. In this manner, recorded process parameter values and product parameter values may be retrieved to verify the quality of products. Moreover, regulatory data may be recorded in response to triggering events so that regulatory agencies can review the data.
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公开(公告)号:US20240086779A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US18516533
申请日:2023-11-21
发明人: Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Robert G. Halgren, III , Anthony Amaro, JR. , Peter Hartmann , Trevor Duncan Schleiss , Seshatre Natarajan
IPC分类号: G06N20/00 , G05B19/4155 , G06F13/38
CPC分类号: G06N20/00 , G05B19/4155 , G06F13/38 , G05B2219/31449 , G06F2213/40
摘要: 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.
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