US 12,190,216 B2
Industrial process control system as a data center of an industrial process plant
Mark J. Nixon, Thorndale, TX (US); Claudio Fayad, Austin, TX (US); Robert G. Halgren, III, Austin, TX (US); Anthony Amaro, Jr., Cedar Park, TX (US); Peter Hartmann, Austin, TX (US); Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Austin, TX (US); and Seshatre Natarajan, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/515,927.
Application 18/515,927 is a continuation of application No. 17/077,888, filed on Oct. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,875,236.
Prior Publication US 2024/0086778 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G05B 19/05 (2006.01); G05B 19/41 (2006.01)
CPC G06N 20/00 (2019.01) [G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); G06F 13/38 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31449 (2013.01); G06F 2213/40 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An industrial distributed process control system (DCS) of an industrial process plant, the industrial DCS comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more tangible, non-transitory memories; and
a discovery engine comprising first computer-executable instructions that are stored on the one or more tangible, non-transitory memories and that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause each module of a plurality of modules of the industrial DCS to populate a respective at least a portion of a plant information model,
the population of the respective at least the portion of the plant information model based on a discovery, by the each module, of respective communicative connections of one or more components of the industrial DCS to the first module, and
the plant information model including a description of a control framework of the industrial process plant and a description of a control network of the industrial process plant utilized to control the industrial process during run-time operations of the industrial process plant; and
an execution engine comprising second computer-executable instructions that are stored on the one or more tangible, non-transitory memories and that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the industrial DCS to execute, via the each module and based on the populated at least the portion of the plant information model, a control routine to thereby deliver data between the control routine and a field device to thereby control an industrial process during run-time operations of the industrial process plant, the control routine and the field device included in the control network.