Suspension of Processes in Industrial Control System When an Anomaly Occurs
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTakuya Mishina, John Wilson
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Abstract
A method for suspension of processes in an industrial control system includes detecting at least one anomaly in an industrial control system; notifying a controller of the at least one anomaly; accessing a database comprising emergency suspend procedures; sending a stream comprising at least one emergency suspend command through at least one firewall/gateway to at least one downstream zone; and terminating or suspending a process in the at least one zone.
Claims19
A method for suspension of processes in an industrial control system, comprising:
- detecting at least one anomaly in an industrial control system;
- notifying a controller of the at least one anomaly;
- accessing a database comprising emergency procedures;
- sending a stream comprising at least one emergency command through at least one firewall/gateway to at least one downstream zone;
- and
- suspending or terminating a process in the at least one zone.
A method for suspension of processes in an industrial control system, comprising:
- detecting at least one anomaly in an industrial control system;
- notifying a controller of the at least one anomaly;
- accessing a read-only database comprising emergency procedures;
- sending a stream comprising at least one emergency command through at least one firewall/gateway to a plurality of zones, each zone in communication with at least one input/output device;
- and
- suspending or terminating at least one process in a predetermined order for the plurality of zones.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.