Method and apparatus for assessing the collective health of multiple process control systems
AssigneeFisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
InventorRovertzonn C. Cruz
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Abstract
Assessing a collective health score of a plurality of process control systems includes automatically and periodically assessing a risk for each of the process control systems, scoring the health of each process control system within a health score scale fixed by an upper limit and a lower limit, the health score based on the assessed risk for each process control system, enabling a user to select a menu item within a navigation menu to specify higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores, and presenting a collective health score of the process control systems associated with the selected menu item.
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A method of assessing a collective health of a plurality of process control systems comprising:
- automatically and periodically assessing a risk for each of a plurality of process control systems, wherein each process control system has one or more risk factors associated with the process control system, wherein introduction of a risk factor to a process control system each period increases the risk assessment for that process control system, and wherein elimination of a risk factor from a process control system each period decreases the risk assessment for that process control system;
- scoring the health of each process control system within a health score scale fixed by an upper limit and a lower limit, the health score based on the assessed risk for each process control system;
- displaying an integrated navigation menu having a plurality of selectable menu items specifying higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores;
- displaying an information view associated with the navigation menu;
- enabling a user to select one of the plurality of selectable menu items within the navigation menu to specify higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores;
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- presenting a collective health score of the process control systems associated with the selected menu item in the information view in a format for each of the plurality of selectable menu items specifying the higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores, wherein the format is a common display format for presenting the collective health scores of the process control systems associated with each of the selectable menu items specifying the higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores.
An apparatus for assessing a collective health of a plurality of process control systems comprising:
- a server adapted to register a process control system and a plurality of other process control systems to facilitate maintaining the process control systems, the process control system located at a first plant site geographically separate from other plant sites of other process control systems;
- an interface in communication with the server and adapted to retrieve risk factors from a database in communication with the server based on monitoring of the process control systems;
- a communication interface adapted to communicate risk factors to the process control systems, wherein each process control system has one or more risk factors associated with the process control system;
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- a processor in communication with the interface, the server and the communication interface, the processor adapted to automatically and periodically:
- score the health of each process control system within a health score scale fixed by an upper limit and a lower limit based on the assessed risk for each process control system;
- display an integrated navigation menu having a plurality of selectable menu items specifying higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores;
- display an information view associated with the navigation menu;
- enable a user to select one of the plurality of selectable menu items within the navigation menu to specify higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores;
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- present a collective health score of the process control systems associated with the selected menu item in the information view in a format for each of the plurality of selectable menu items specifying the higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores, wherein the format is a common display format for presenting the collective health scores of the process control systems associated with each of the selectable menu items specifying the higher and lower levels of integration of the health scores.
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