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

Claim 2:
3. The industrial distributed process control system of claim 1, wherein:
the each pluggable DCS hardware module is configured to detect, via at least one of the plurality of interface ports, that a particular physical component of the one or more physical components has been newly communicatively connected to the each pluggable DCS hardware module;
a discovery of the particular physical component is automatically initiated by the DCS based on the detection of the new communicative connection; and
the plurality of interface ports includes at least one of: an Advanced Physical Layer port, an analog I/O port, a discrete I/O port, a serial port, a motion port, a near-infrared port, a Railbus port, a Wi-Fi port, an Ethernet port, a HART port, a WirelessHART port, a Fieldbus port, a Profibus port, or another type of interface port.