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

Claim 40:
41. The method of claim 26, wherein the set of pluggable, interchangeable DCS hardware modules is a plurality of pluggable DCS hardware modules, and the method further comprises:
discovering, by each of at least one pluggable DCS hardware module of the plurality of pluggable DCS hardware modules, a respective another pluggable DCS hardware module upon an establishment of a communicative connection between the each of the at least one pluggable DCS hardware module and the respective another pluggable DCS hardware module; and
distributing, among the plurality of pluggable DCS hardware modules, at least one of (i) the plant information model, (ii) a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that is exposed to a set of applications to provide the set of applications access to the plant information model, (iii) the respective I/O delivery mechanisms, or (iv) a set of control routines, the set of control routines including the control routine corresponding to the field device.