Engineering in a process control system

A computer program for providing configurations for real functions of a runtime system of a process control system, said computer program comprising computer program code which when executed by a processor of an engineering server causes the engineering server to perform the steps of

• providing configuration for real functions of a runtime system of the process control system, the process control system also including an engineering system,
• providing a group of engineering services in an engineering system platform of the engineering system,
• said group of engineering services including at least one engineering directory service and at least one group of model services, where each group of model services is associated with a corresponding engineering directory service,
• where each engineering directory service provides at least one object of a type corresponding to a type of process control equipment and each model service provides a function operating on an object provided by the corresponding engineering directory service and allowing an user to configure the corresponding function,
• wherein the model service and the engineering directory service are realized as microservices and each model service is set to communicate with the corresponding engineering directory service via a corresponding point-to-point connection and to store configurations made by the user in a source file store for being implemented as configurations of real functions in the runtime system operating on process control equipment.

A computer program product for providing configurations for real functions of a runtime system of a process control system, the computer program product comprising a data carrier with the computer program with computer program code which when executed by a processor of an engineering server causes the engineering server to perform the steps of:

• providing configurations for real functions of a runtime system of the process control system, the process control system also including an engineering system,
• providing a group of engineering services in an engineering system platform of the engineering system,
• said group of engineering services including at least one engineering directory service and at least one group of model services, where each group of model services is associated with a corresponding engineering directory service,
• where each engineering directory service provides at least one object of a type corresponding to a type of process control equipment and each model service provides a function operating on an object provided by the corresponding engineering directory service and allowing a user to configure the corresponding function,
• wherein the model services and the engineering directory service are realized as microservices and each model service is set to communicate with the corresponding engineering directory service via a corresponding point-to-point connection and to store configurations made by the user in a source file store for being implemented as configurations of real functions in the runtime system operating on process control equipment.

A process control system comprising:

• a runtime system comprising a first operator terminal, a process control server and a controller, and
• an engineering system including an engineering serve for providing configuration for real functions of a runtime system of the process control system,
• said engineering server comprising at least one processor operable to provide a group of engineering services of an engineering services platform, said group of engineering services including, at least one engineering directory service and at least one group of model services, where each group of model services is associated with a corresponding engineering directory service,
• where each engineering directory service provides at least one object of a type corresponding to a type of process control equipment and each model service provides a function operating on an object provided by the corresponding engineering directory service and allowing a user to configure the corresponding function,
• wherein the model services and the engineering directory service are realized as microservices and each model service is operative to communicate with the corresponding engineering directory service via a corresponding point-to-point connection and to store configurations made by the user in a source file store for being implemented as configurations of real functions in the runtime system operating on process control equipment