US 9,588,514 B2 · Commissioning field devices in a process control system supported by big data

Abstract

Techniques for determining device-specific information such as commissioning data, location information, images, and other data descriptive of a process device installed in a plant include obtaining the device-specific information at a local device during the process device's commissioning. Based on this information, the local device determines the relative order of the process device within a process flow, and may determine a process element alignment map indicating the activation order of a plurality of process elements within the flow. A user may modify the map at the local device. The map is transmitted to a process control big data network for use in discovery and learning analytics. The device-specific information and/or the map may be utilized to generate, at the local device, representations/views of the process flow, which may include real-time operational data. A user may zoom in or out on these views for more or less detail.

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Dependent claims

A method of determining process element alignment in a process, the method comprising:

obtaining, at a local device operated by a user during commissioning of a field device installed in a process plant, identification information of the field device;
determining, by the local device based on a physical location at which the field device is installed, a relative process order of the field device with respect to another process device to be used to control the process in the process plant;
and
providing, by the local device, the identification information and an indication of the relative process order of the field device for use in generating a process element alignment map of the process, the process alignment map of the process indicating an order of activation of each of a plurality of process elements in a flow of materials within the process plant while the process is being controlled, the plurality of process elements including the field device and the another process device.

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A method of determining process element alignment in a process, the method comprising:

obtaining, from a local device operated by a user to commission field devices installed in a process plant, respective identification information of a plurality of field devices;
determining, by the local device based on respective physical locations at which the plurality of field devices are installed, respective relative ordering of each of the plurality of field devices in a flow of materials within the process plant while the process is being controlled;
generating, based on the obtained respective identification information and the determined indications of the respective relative orderings of the plurality of field devices, at least a portion of a process element alignment map of the process, the at least the portion of the process element alignment map including an indication of respective order of activation of each of the plurality of field devices within the flow of materials corresponding to the process;
and
presenting a pictorial representation of the at least the portion of the process element alignment map on a display.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Commissioning field devices in a process control system supported by big data

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Commissioning field devices in a process control system supported by big data

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Abstract

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