US 12,190,217 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. 18/516,533.
Application 18/516,533 is a continuation of application No. 17/077,888, filed on Oct. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,875,236.
Prior Publication US 2024/0086779 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 distributed process control system comprising:
a plant information model stored on one or more tangible, non-transitory memories of the industrial distributed process control system, the plant information model describing: a control framework of the industrial process plant, a control network of the industrial process plant utilized to control an industrial process during run-time operations of the industrial process plant, a set of physical components of the industrial process plant, respective locations of the set of physical components, and respective interconnections among the set of physical components;
a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that is exposed to thereby provide a plurality of applications of the industrial DCS access to the plant information model; and
a process control loop included in the control network, the process control loop including a physical component of the set of physical components, an I/O data delivery mechanism, and a control routine, and the process control loop executing during run-time operations of the industrial process plant to control the industrial process by utilizing the exposed set of APIs to access the plant information model.