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1.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240019854A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-18
申请号：US18223405
申请日：2023-07-18
IPC分类号： G05B19/418
CPC分类号： G05B19/4185 , G05B19/4184
摘要： A process control or automation system comprising a plurality of instantiated micro-encapsulated execution environments (MEEEs) includes a first one or more instantiated MEEEs communicatively connecting a provider of the plurality of instantiated MEEEs to a first enterprise operating a first one or more industrial or automation processes at a first one or more physical locations or sites. The system also includes a second one or more instantiated MEEEs communicatively connecting the provider to a second enterprise operating a second one or more industrial or automation processes at a second one or more physical locations or sites.
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公开(公告)号：US20240019823A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-18
申请号：US18223384
申请日：2023-07-18
发明人： Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Mickey Nanda , Aaron C. Jones , Peter Hartmann , Gary K. Law
CPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L63/0272
摘要： A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric includes an application layer that includes configured containers or containerized software modules that perform various control, monitoring and configuration activities with respect to one or more devices, control strategies and control loops, sites, plants, or facilities at which control is performed, and includes a physical layer including computer processing and data storage equipment that can be located at any desired location, including at or near a site, plant, or facility at which control is being performed, at a dedicated location away from the location at which control is being performed, in re-assignable computer equipment provided in the cloud, or any combination thereof. This control architecture enables significant amounts of both computer processing and IT infrastructure that is used to support a process plant, an industrial control facility or other automation facility to be implemented in a shared, in an offsite and/or in a virtualized manner that alleviates many of the communications and security issues present in current process and industrial control systems that attempt to implement control with shared or virtualized computing resources set up according to the well-known Purdue model.
The industrial control system architecture is protected via more secure and customizable techniques as compared to those used in Purdue model-based control systems. For example, communications between any (and in some cases, all) endpoints of the system may be protected via one or more virtual private networks to which authenticated endpoints must be authorized to access. Endpoints may include, for example, containerized components, physical components, devices, sites or locations, the compute fabric, and the like, and the VPNs may include mutually-exclusive and/or nested VPNs. External applications and services, whether automated or executing under the purview of a person, may access information and services provided by the system via only APIs, and different sets of APIs may be exposed to different users that have been authenticated and authorized to access respective sets of APIs.
A configuration system operates within the compute fabric to enable a user to easily make configuration changes to the compute fabric as the user does not generally need to specify the computer hardware within the compute fabric to use to make the configuration changes, making it possible for the user to deploy new configuration elements with simple programming steps, and in some cases with the push of a button.-
公开(公告)号：US20240019842A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-18
申请号：US18223373
申请日：2023-07-18
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Peter Hartmann , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Gary K. Law
IPC分类号： G05B19/414
CPC分类号： G05B19/4142 , G05B2219/34447
摘要： A process control device for use in an industrial process control or automation system of an industrial process plant includes a sensor configured to measure a parameter of a process in the industrial process plant and to output to a controller in the industrial process plant the parameter measured. The process control device also or alternatively includes a control element configured to perform an action in the industrial process plant according to an input received from the controller in the industrial process plant. The process control device also includes an embedded device identifier, unique to the process control field device and associated with one or more of an owner of the process control field device, a plant location of the process control field device, a country or geographical or geopolitical region, and a device tag.
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公开(公告)号：US10551815B2
公开(公告)日：2020-02-04
申请号：US15720654
申请日：2017-09-29
发明人： Michael G. Ott , Brandon Hieb , William E. Bennett , Anthony Amaro, Jr. , Brian M. Capoccia , Robert Gustaf Halgren, III
IPC分类号： G06F3/0484 , G05B19/05 , H04W84/10 , G05B19/418
摘要： An enhanced modular controller is disclosed that includes a plurality of configurable communication ports and a control logic layer operable to control equipment of a process plant. The plurality of communication ports include a first set of communication ports and a second set of communication ports which are operable to communicate with one or more nodes of a distributed control system of the process plant. The enhanced modular controller also includes a software layer that accepts port configuration parameters that define one or more port communication rules for the first set of communication ports and for the second set of communication ports. The one or more port communication rules causes the software layer to selectively allow or restrict retransmission of incoming messages, where the incoming messages are received at the first set of communication ports or the second set of communication ports.
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公开(公告)号：US20240028014A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18223359
申请日：2023-07-18
发明人： Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Mickey Nanda , Aaron C. Jones , Peter Hartmann , Gary K. Law
IPC分类号： G05B19/418
CPC分类号： G05B19/41865 , G05B19/41885 , G05B19/4185
摘要： A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric includes an application layer that includes configured containers or containerized software modules that perform various control, monitoring and configuration activities with respect to one or more devices, control strategies and control loops, sites, plants, or facilities at which control is performed, and includes a physical layer including computer processing and data storage equipment that can be located at any desired location, including at or near a site, plant, or facility at which control is being performed, at a dedicated location away from the location at which control is being performed, in re-assignable computer equipment provided in the cloud, or any combination thereof. This control architecture enables significant amounts of both computer processing and IT infrastructure that is used to support a process plant, an industrial control facility or other automation facility to be implemented in a shared, in an offsite and/or in a virtualized manner that alleviates many of the communications and security issues present in current process and industrial control systems that attempt to implement control with shared or virtualized computing resources set up according to the well-known Purdue model.
The industrial control system architecture is protected via more secure and customizable techniques as compared to those used in Purdue model-based control systems. For example, communications between any (and in some cases, all) endpoints of the system may be protected via one or more virtual private networks to which authenticated endpoints must be authorized to access. Endpoints may include, for example, containerized components, physical components, devices, sites or locations, the compute fabric, and the like, and the VPNs may include mutually-exclusive and/or nested VPNs. External applications and services, whether automated or executing under the purview of a person, may access information and services provided by the system via only APIs, and different sets of APIs may be exposed to different users that have been authenticated and authorized to access respective sets of APIs.
A configuration system operates within the compute fabric to enable a user to easily make configuration changes to the compute fabric as the user does not generally need to specify the computer hardware within the compute fabric to use to make the configuration changes, making it possible for the user to deploy new configuration elements with simple programming steps, and in some cases with the push of a button.-
公开(公告)号：US20240027981A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18370691
申请日：2023-09-20
发明人： Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Mickey Nanda , Aaron C. Jones , Peter Hartmann , Gary K. Law
CPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L63/0272
摘要： An industrial process control system includes a compute fabric having a first portion operating on-premises at an industrial process plant controlled by the industrial process control system and a second portion operating remotely from the industrial process plant controlled by the industrial process control system. The system also includes one or more transmitters in the process plant measuring or sensing physical parameters and includes one or more physical control elements in the process plant, each physical control element responsive to a respective setpoint parameter. The system further includes a plurality of micro-encapsulated execution environments instantiated in the compute fabric, each executing at least a portion of a control module that receives data from the one or more transmitters and transmits at least one setpoint parameter to each of the one or more physical control elements to cause the physical control elements to control a process in the industrial process plant.
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7.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240027980A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18223416
申请日：2023-07-18
CPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L63/0272
摘要： A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric includes an application layer that includes configured containers or containerized software modules that perform various control, monitoring and configuration activities with respect to one or more devices, control strategies and control loops, sites, plants, or facilities at which control is performed, and includes a physical layer including computer processing and data storage equipment that can be located at any desired location, including at or near a site, plant, or facility at which control is being performed, at a dedicated location away from the location at which control is being performed, in re-assignable computer equipment provided in the cloud, or any combination thereof. This control architecture enables significant amounts of both computer processing and IT infrastructure that is used to support a process plant, an industrial control facility or other automation facility to be implemented in a shared, in an offsite and/or in a virtualized manner that alleviates many of the communications and security issues present in current process and industrial control systems that attempt to implement control with shared or virtualized computing resources set up according to the well-known Purdue model.
The industrial control system architecture is protected via more secure and customizable techniques as compared to those used in Purdue model-based control systems. For example, communications between any (and in some cases, all) endpoints of the system may be protected via one or more virtual private networks to which authenticated endpoints must be authorized to access. Endpoints may include, for example, containerized components, physical components, devices, sites or locations, the compute fabric, and the like, and the VPNs may include mutually-exclusive and/or nested VPNs. External applications and services, whether automated or executing under the purview of a person, may access information and services provided by the system via only APIs, and different sets of APIs may be exposed to different users that have been authenticated and authorized to access respective sets of APIs.
A configuration system operates within the compute fabric to enable a user to easily make configuration changes to the compute fabric as the user does not generally need to specify the computer hardware within the compute fabric to use to make the configuration changes, making it possible for the user to deploy new configuration elements with simple programming steps, and in some cases with the push of a button.-
公开(公告)号：US20190079486A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15720654
申请日：2017-09-29
发明人： Michael G. Ott , Brandon Hieb , William E. Bennett , Anthony Amaro, JR. , Brian M. Capoccia , Robert Gustaf Halgren, III
IPC分类号： G05B19/05 , G05B19/418 , H04W84/10
CPC分类号： G05B19/056 , G05B19/0423 , G05B19/0426 , G05B19/054 , G05B19/41845 , G05B19/4185 , H04W84/10
摘要： An enhanced modular controller is disclosed that includes a plurality of configurable communication ports and a control logic layer operable to control equipment of a process plant. The plurality of communication ports include a first set of communication ports and a second set of communication ports which are operable to communicate with one or more nodes of a distributed control system of the process plant. The enhanced modular controller also includes a software layer that accepts port configuration parameters that define one or more port communication rules for the first set of communication ports and for the second set of communication ports. The one or more port communication rules causes the software layer to selectively allow or restrict retransmission of incoming messages, where the incoming messages are received at the first set of communication ports or the second set of communication ports.
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