Patent ID: 9323242
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G05B,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A method for determining an optimal operating status of a plant comprised of multiple components, comprising: determining a set of structural dependencies between a set of components of the plant through the analysis of a structural model; determining a set of status transitions for the set of components of the plant through the analysis of an operating status model; determining a set of process dependencies for the set of components of the plant through the analysis of a process model; and determining an overall status model of the plant based on the structural dependencies, the process dependencies and the status transitions of the set of components, wherein the overall status model includes a set of status transition dependencies for the set of components; and using the set of status transition dependencies to determine a status setting for each component in the set of components in response to a status change of the plant.