US 11,720,072 B2
Plant state operating analysis and control
Mark Bertinetti, East Killara (AU); and Graeme Laycock, Hunters Hill (AU)
Assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Morris Plains, NJ (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/577,656.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/738,870, filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0103838 A1, Apr. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. G05B 17/02 (2006.01); G05B 13/04 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC G05B 17/02 (2013.01) [G05B 13/048 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2013.01); G05B 2219/23273 (2013.01); G05B 2219/24055 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of managing the operation of a plant in a plant state operating analysis and control system, comprising:
receiving actual operational data using a first computing device associated with the plant that has processing equipment configured and controlled to run a process involving at least one tangible material or a power application originating from at least one device in the plant;
generating based on the actual operational data at least one model of the plant using categorization, importance value and confidence value relating to reliability associated with the actual operation data that exceeds a threshold, wherein the model provides ideal plant operations including model operational data,
wherein the categorization includes categories corresponding to process, processing equipment, people, control, and safety information, wherein the importance value corresponds to significance of problem indicated by the actual operational data, and the confidence value corresponds confidence level associated with all or portions of the organizational data, such that relatively more reliable organizational data is separated from relatively less reliable organizational data;
comparing the actual operational data and the model operational data,
determining based on the actual operational data and the comparing, at least one recommendation for an action associated with the plant; and
transmitting the at least one recommendation to at least one of the first computing device, a second computing device, and an operator implementing the action.