Patent ID: 11875236
Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 42:
43. An industrial distributed process control system (DCS) of an industrial process plant, the industrial distributed process control system comprising:
a data center including:
a plant information model stored on one or more tangible, non-transitory memories of the DCS, the plant information model describing, using a modeling language:
a set of physical components of the industrial process plant, the description of the set of physical components indicating respective locations of the set of physical components and respective physical interconnections among the set of physical components;
a control framework of the industrial process plant, the control framework defining hierarchical relationships among a set of control components of the DCS and respective logical control identifiers of the set of control components, and the control components including at least some of the set of physical components; and
a control network of the industrial process plant utilized to control an industrial process during the run-time operations of the industrial process plant, the control network including at least some of the set of control components; and

a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) stored on the one or more tangible, non-transitory memories of the DCS and exposed to at least one of a control routine or an I/O data delivery mechanism of the DCS to provide the at least one of the control routine or the I/O data delivery mechanism access to the plant information model via the modeling language,
the modeling language comprising abstractions of a plurality of data formats utilized by the DCS, and
the at least one of the control routine or the I/O data delivery mechanism executes, in conjunction with a corresponding physical component disposed in the industrial process plant, to control the industrial process during real-time operations of the industrial process plant by utilizing information obtained from the plant information model.