US 11,675,487 B2
Automatic process graphic generation
Heiko Koziolek, Karlsruhe (DE); Michael Vach, Wilhelmsfeld (DE); and Jens Doppelhamer, Ladenburg (DE)
Assigned to ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed by ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/830,301.
Claims priority of application No. 19 165 874 (EP), filed on Mar. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0310390 A1, Oct. 1, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04845 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G06T 11/206 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31472 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
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1. A method for an automatic generation of industrial process graphics, comprising:
receiving engineering data, device data, and sensor data of an industrial plant comprising a plurality of field devices, the engineering data, device data, and sensor data being assigned to a single or multiple field devices;
extracting field device information for each field device of the plurality of the field devices from the assigned engineering data, device data, and sensor data;
automatically generating a plurality of process graphics for each field device of the plurality of the field devices; and
creating a hierarchical structure based on the process graphics for at least two field devices of the plurality of field devices,
wherein the hierarchical structure is based on a process of the at least two field devices,
wherein the hierarchical structure is based on a device relationship of the at least two field devices defined in device descriptions as stored in the device data,
wherein the plurality of process graphics for each field device covers a plurality of different abstraction levels of the industrial plant,
wherein the device data comprises a geographic coordinate of each of the at least two field devices of the plurality of the field devices, and
wherein the device relationship of the at least two field devices is based on a physical proximity of the at least two field devices to one another, the physical proximity being determined based on the geographic coordinates of the at least two field devices.