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1. 发明公开

US20240086779A1 INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AS A DATA CENTER OF AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS PLANT 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20240086779A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-14
申请号：US18516533
申请日：2023-11-21
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Robert G. Halgren, III , Anthony Amaro, JR. , Peter Hartmann , Trevor Duncan Schleiss , Seshatre Natarajan
IPC分类号： G06N20/00 , G05B19/4155 , G06F13/38
CPC分类号： G06N20/00 , G05B19/4155 , G06F13/38 , G05B2219/31449 , G06F2213/40
摘要： A distributed control system (DCS) of an industrial process plant includes a data center storing a plant information model that includes a description of physical components, the control framework, and the control network of the plant using a modeling language. A set of exposed APIs provides DCS applications access to the model, and to an optional generic framework of the data center which stores basic structures and functions from which the DCS may automatically generate other structures and functions to populate the model and to automatically create various applications and routines utilized during run-time operations of the DCS and plant. Upon initialization, the DCS may automatically sense the I/O types of its interface ports, detect communicatively connected physical components within the plant, and automatically populate the plant information model accordingly. The DCS may optionally automatically generate related control routines and/or I/O data delivery mechanisms, HMI routines, and the like.

2. 发明公开

US20240019842A1 Embedded Device Identification in Process Control Devices 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20240019842A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-18
申请号：US18223373
申请日：2023-07-18
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Peter Hartmann , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Gary K. Law
IPC分类号： G05B19/414
CPC分类号： G05B19/4142 , G05B2219/34447
摘要： A process control device for use in an industrial process control or automation system of an industrial process plant includes a sensor configured to measure a parameter of a process in the industrial process plant and to output to a controller in the industrial process plant the parameter measured. The process control device also or alternatively includes a control element configured to perform an action in the industrial process plant according to an input received from the controller in the industrial process plant. The process control device also includes an embedded device identifier, unique to the process control field device and associated with one or more of an owner of the process control field device, a plant location of the process control field device, a country or geographical or geopolitical region, and a device tag.

3. 发明公开

US20230394045A1 Smart Search UI 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20230394045A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-07
申请号：US18326227
申请日：2023-05-31
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Peter Hartmann , Anthony Amaro, JR. , Mary Grace Francisco
IPC分类号： G06F16/2455 , G06F16/248 , G06F16/2453 , G06F16/2457
CPC分类号： G06F16/24568 , G06F16/248 , G06F16/24542 , G06F16/24575
摘要： To provide enhanced search capabilities in a process control system, a knowledge repository is generated that includes both contextual data and time series data. The contextual data organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the knowledge repository. The contextual data categorizes process parameters so that users can search for a particular process parameter category. Users can tag previous searches to execute them once again at a later time. Users can also execute queries for predicted or future states of process plant entities, batch queries regarding batch processes, soft sensor analytics and monitoring applications, parameter lifecycle applications, perturbation applications, step testing applications, or batch provisioning and scheduling applications using the knowledge repository.

4. 发明授权

US11627175B2 Edge gateway system with data typing for secured process plant data delivery 有权
公开(公告)号：US11627175B2
公开(公告)日：2023-04-11
申请号：US17516421
申请日：2021-11-01
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Robert G. Halgren, III , Gary K. Law , John M. Caldwell , Anthony Amaro, Jr. , Peter Hartmann
IPC分类号： G06F15/16 , G06F9/54 , H04L29/06 , H04L65/61 , G05B19/418 , H04L9/40 , H04L12/66 , H04L67/55
摘要： An edge gateway system securely delivers and exposes data generated by and/or related to a process plant for consumption by external systems, and includes a field-facing component that sends, to an edge-facing component of the system, a collection of data types defined based on configurations of the process plant and represented using a syntax that is native to the one or more external systems. The field-facing component streams process plant-related content data indicated by one or more interest lists to the edge-facing component, where the streamed data is expressed using the collection of data types. Each interest list may include multiple types of data (e.g., control, I/O, diagnostic, device, historical, etc.) that collectively represent a particular named entity of the plant. Accordingly, the streamed data is securely delivered and exposed, via the edge-facing component, to the external systems.

5. 发明申请

US20220405278A1 GATEWAY SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUALIZED PROCESS PLANT KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY 有权
公开(公告)号：US20220405278A1
公开(公告)日：2022-12-22
申请号：US17894483
申请日：2022-08-24
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Robert G. Halgren, III , Gary K. Law , John M. Caldwell , Anthony Amaro, JR. , Peter Hartmann
IPC分类号： G06F16/2458 , G06F16/2457 , G06F16/901 , G05B13/02 , G05B13/04 , G06F9/54 , G06N5/02
摘要： A gateway system securely delivers and exposes data generated by and/or related to a process plant for consumption by external systems, and includes an edge-facing component that receives process plant-related data from a process plant via a field-facing component of the system. The received data may comport with an exposable data type system utilizing a syntax known to the external systems. The edge-facing component stores the received data in a data lake, and mines the data lake to thereby discover relationships between stored data points. Indications of the received data and the discovered interrelationships are stored in a contextualized process plant knowledge repository, such as a graph database, that is accessible to the external systems and other systems and applications via one or more access mechanisms, which may include utilities, services, servers, and/or applications. Some of the access mechanisms allow external applications to be installed at the edge-facing component.

6. 发明申请

US20210089526A1 EDGE GATEWAY SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUALIZED PROCESS PLANT KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY 有权
公开(公告)号：US20210089526A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-25
申请号：US16577800
申请日：2019-09-20
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Robert G. Halgren, III , Gary K. Law , John M. Caldwell , Anthony Amaro, JR. , Peter Hartmann
IPC分类号： G06F16/2458 , G06F16/2457 , G05B13/02 , G05B13/04 , G06N5/02 , G06F16/901 , G06F9/54
摘要： An edge gateway system securely delivers and exposes data generated by and/or related to a process plant for consumption by external systems, and includes an edge-facing component that receives process plant-related data from a process plant via a field-facing component of the system. The received data may comport with an exposable data type system utilizing a syntax known to the external systems. The edge-facing component stores the received data in a data lake, and mines the data lake to thereby discover relationships between stored data points. Indications of the received data and the discovered interrelationships are stored in a contextualized process plant knowledge repository, such as a graph database, that is accessible to the external systems and other systems and applications via one or more access mechanisms, which may include utilities, services, servers, and/or applications. Some of the access mechanisms allow external applications to be installed at the edge-facing component.

7. 发明公开

US20240231335A9 SPOKE AND HUB CONFIGURATION FOR A PROCESS CONTROL OR AUTOMATION SYSTEM 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20240231335A9
公开(公告)日：2024-07-11
申请号：US18382296
申请日：2023-10-20
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Brian Vinyard , Brian LaMothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Wayne Bartel , Peter Hartmann , Mark J. Nixon
IPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L9/40
CPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L63/0272
摘要： A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric is implemented in a spoke and hub configuration in which the compute fabric includes computing infrastructure organized into one or more hubs, with each hub disposed in a particular geographical region or area. Each hub of the compute fabric may include communication connections in the form of spokes to each of a plurality of geographical locations or areas, such as plants, and may store and process the data from each of the associated spokes in the hub. The various different hubs may be used to organize or control what enterprise data is processed or handled in particular geographical regions and where enterprise actions, such as control actions, take place in the enterprise.

8. 发明公开

US20240028014A1 Field Device Digital Twins in Process Control and Automation Systems 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20240028014A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18223359
申请日：2023-07-18
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Mickey Nanda , Aaron C. Jones , Peter Hartmann , Gary K. Law
IPC分类号： G05B19/418
CPC分类号： G05B19/41865 , G05B19/41885 , G05B19/4185
摘要： A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric includes an application layer that includes configured containers or containerized software modules that perform various control, monitoring and configuration activities with respect to one or more devices, control strategies and control loops, sites, plants, or facilities at which control is performed, and includes a physical layer including computer processing and data storage equipment that can be located at any desired location, including at or near a site, plant, or facility at which control is being performed, at a dedicated location away from the location at which control is being performed, in re-assignable computer equipment provided in the cloud, or any combination thereof. This control architecture enables significant amounts of both computer processing and IT infrastructure that is used to support a process plant, an industrial control facility or other automation facility to be implemented in a shared, in an offsite and/or in a virtualized manner that alleviates many of the communications and security issues present in current process and industrial control systems that attempt to implement control with shared or virtualized computing resources set up according to the well-known Purdue model.
The industrial control system architecture is protected via more secure and customizable techniques as compared to those used in Purdue model-based control systems. For example, communications between any (and in some cases, all) endpoints of the system may be protected via one or more virtual private networks to which authenticated endpoints must be authorized to access. Endpoints may include, for example, containerized components, physical components, devices, sites or locations, the compute fabric, and the like, and the VPNs may include mutually-exclusive and/or nested VPNs. External applications and services, whether automated or executing under the purview of a person, may access information and services provided by the system via only APIs, and different sets of APIs may be exposed to different users that have been authenticated and authorized to access respective sets of APIs.
A configuration system operates within the compute fabric to enable a user to easily make configuration changes to the compute fabric as the user does not generally need to specify the computer hardware within the compute fabric to use to make the configuration changes, making it possible for the user to deploy new configuration elements with simple programming steps, and in some cases with the push of a button.

9. 发明公开

US20240027981A1 COMPUTE FABRIC ENABLED PROCESS CONTROL 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20240027981A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18370691
申请日：2023-09-20
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC
发明人： Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Mark J. Nixon , Claudio Fayad , Mickey Nanda , Aaron C. Jones , Peter Hartmann , Gary K. Law
IPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L9/40
CPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L63/0272
摘要： An industrial process control system includes a compute fabric having a first portion operating on-premises at an industrial process plant controlled by the industrial process control system and a second portion operating remotely from the industrial process plant controlled by the industrial process control system. The system also includes one or more transmitters in the process plant measuring or sensing physical parameters and includes one or more physical control elements in the process plant, each physical control element responsive to a respective setpoint parameter. The system further includes a plurality of micro-encapsulated execution environments instantiated in the compute fabric, each executing at least a portion of a control module that receives data from the one or more transmitters and transmits at least one setpoint parameter to each of the one or more physical control elements to cause the physical control elements to control a process in the industrial process plant.

10. 发明公开

US20240027980A1 Monitoring and Operational Functionalities for an Enterprise Using Process Control or Automation System 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20240027980A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-25
申请号：US18223416
申请日：2023-07-18
申请人： FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
发明人： Brian M. Capoccia , Brian Lamothe , Narayanan Doraiswamy , Mark J. Nixon , Peter Hartmann
IPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L9/40
CPC分类号： G05B15/02 , H04L63/0272
摘要： A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric includes an application layer that includes configured containers or containerized software modules that perform various control, monitoring and configuration activities with respect to one or more devices, control strategies and control loops, sites, plants, or facilities at which control is performed, and includes a physical layer including computer processing and data storage equipment that can be located at any desired location, including at or near a site, plant, or facility at which control is being performed, at a dedicated location away from the location at which control is being performed, in re-assignable computer equipment provided in the cloud, or any combination thereof. This control architecture enables significant amounts of both computer processing and IT infrastructure that is used to support a process plant, an industrial control facility or other automation facility to be implemented in a shared, in an offsite and/or in a virtualized manner that alleviates many of the communications and security issues present in current process and industrial control systems that attempt to implement control with shared or virtualized computing resources set up according to the well-known Purdue model.
The industrial control system architecture is protected via more secure and customizable techniques as compared to those used in Purdue model-based control systems. For example, communications between any (and in some cases, all) endpoints of the system may be protected via one or more virtual private networks to which authenticated endpoints must be authorized to access. Endpoints may include, for example, containerized components, physical components, devices, sites or locations, the compute fabric, and the like, and the VPNs may include mutually-exclusive and/or nested VPNs. External applications and services, whether automated or executing under the purview of a person, may access information and services provided by the system via only APIs, and different sets of APIs may be exposed to different users that have been authenticated and authorized to access respective sets of APIs.
A configuration system operates within the compute fabric to enable a user to easily make configuration changes to the compute fabric as the user does not generally need to specify the computer hardware within the compute fabric to use to make the configuration changes, making it possible for the user to deploy new configuration elements with simple programming steps, and in some cases with the push of a button.

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