Process control configuration system with connection validation and configuration
    1.
    发明授权
    Process control configuration system with connection validation and configuration 有权
    具有连接验证和配置的过程控制配置系统

    公开(公告)号:US08368640B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-05

    申请号:US11355311

    申请日:2006-02-14

    Abstract: Connection objects or other such data structures facilitate establishing and configuring connections between objects that model components in a process control system. A first set of data structures (e.g., the object connection type structures) identify valid types for component-to-component pairings and the respective roles of each component in the pairing (e.g., parent or child, source or sink). A second set of data structures (e.g., the parameter connection type structures) supply similar information for parameter-to-parameter connections. Together, these data structures can be used, for example, to validate component-to-component connections suggested by the user and to automatically configure parameter-to-parameter connections. Actual connections, both at the component or parameter level, are reflected using parameter overrides within the parameterized object model—with which the connection objects are constructed.

    Abstract translation: 连接对象或其他此类数据结构便于建立和配置在过程控制系统中对组件进行建模的对象之间的连接。 第一组数据结构(例如,对象连接类型结构)标识组件到组件配对的有效类型以及配对中每个组件(例如,父或子,源或接收器)的各自角色。 第二组数据结构(例如,参数连接类型结构)提供参数到参数连接的类似信息。 可以一起使用这些数据结构,例如,验证用户建议的组件到组件的连接并自动配置参数到参数的连接。 使用参数化对象模型中的参数覆盖来反映组件或参数级别的实际连接(构建连接对象)。

    Control systems and methods with smart blocks
    4.
    发明授权
    Control systems and methods with smart blocks 有权
    具有智能块的控制系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08028275B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-09-27

    申请号:US12265560

    申请日:2008-11-05

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object. Configuration-time formulas contained objects are evaluated to constants prior to downloading to the control system.

    Abstract translation: 用于配置过程,环境,工业和其他控制系统的方法和装置产生和/或利用表示控制系统和/或由它们控制的系统的配置的模型。 保持对模型或由其表示的配置的变化的记录,从而例如提供用于确定当前状态,先前状态和变化历史的基础。 模型中的对象具有诸如对象类型特征和面积特征的特征。 用户可以拥有相应的权限。 安全机制装置控制用户对对象的访问。 复合对象由定义对象定义,并以封装或扩展格式显示。 对象可以包括编辑控件类型标识符,用于确定如何呈现以进行编辑。 功能通过将由图形用户界面描绘的第一对象的特征传送到第二对象来响应于用户命令。 包含对象的配置时间公式在下载到控制系统之前被评估为常数。

    Methods and apparatus for controlling object appearance in a process control configuration system
    8.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for controlling object appearance in a process control configuration system 失效
    用于控制过程控制配置系统中对象外观的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06754885B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-22

    申请号:US09448845

    申请日:1999-11-23

    Abstract: The invention provides improved apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems. Such apparatus employs “appearance” objects (or other data and/or programming constructs) defining the appearance of configurable system components in graphical editors or other views in which the components may be depicted. “Placeholder” objects (or other constructs) persist the location, size, color, or other aspects of appearance defined by an appearance object for a configurable component in views in which it is actually depicted. By way of example, a process control configuration apparatus according to this aspect of the invention uses “configurable” objects to define blocks, loops and other components of a process control system. Appearance objects provide (or reference) icons or representations indicating how the configurable objects are to be depicted, e.g., in a configuration editor. Placeholder objects are created for each configurable object that is placed in a configuration using that editor. The placeholder objects identify the sizes, locations, colors, etc., of the icons used in the editor to represent the configurable objects.

    Abstract translation: 本发明提供了用于配置过程,环境,工业和其他控制系统的改进的装置。 这种装置采用“外观”对象(或其他数据和/或编程结构),其定义图形编辑器中的可配置系统组件的外观或其中可以描绘组件的其他视图。 “占位符”对象(或其他结构)在实际描绘的视图中保留由可配置组件的外观对象定义的外观的位置,大小,颜色或其他方面。 作为示例,根据本发明的该方面的过程控制配置设备使用“可配置”对象来定义过程控制系统的块,循环和其他组件。 外观对象提供(或引用)图标或表示,指示如何描绘可配置对象,例如在配置编辑器中。 为使用该编辑器放置在配置中的每个可配置对象创建占位符对象。 占位符对象标识编辑器中用于表示可配置对象的图标的大小,位置,颜色等。

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