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

Claim 38:
39. The method of claim 26, wherein:
the plant information model further includes a description of the one or more physical components of the industrial process plant, respective locations within the industrial process plant at which the one or more physical components are respectively disposed, and respective interconnections among the one or more physical components;
populating the at least the portion of the plant information model comprises populating the description of the control framework, the description of the control network, and the description of the one or more physical components using a modeling language;
the modeling language comprises an abstraction of data provided to the plant information model by different data sources respectively utilizing different data formats; and
the method further comprises exposing a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to provide, to a set of applications of the DCS, access to the information stored in the plant information model by utilizing the modeling language.