Patent ID: 9720396
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G05B

Claim:
1. A method comprising: instantiating an instance of a generic process system library, the generic process system library being a fillable template including representations of interconnected equipment items included in a process control system, the equipment items generating corresponding process signals, the generic process system library comprising generic process graphic data and generic control strategy data, the generic process graphic data including graphical representations of the equipment items and graphical representations of the corresponding process signals arranged in a hierarchy, the generic control strategy data including generic placeholders arranged in the hierarchy; requesting process specific data associated with the operation of the process control system to modify the generic placeholders; determining whether the process specific data received are sufficient to modify the generic placeholders; and configuring the instance of the generic process system library by incorporating the process specific data with the generic placeholders to generate a process specific control strategy from the generic control strategy data and to generate a process specific graphic from the generic process graphic data, the process specific data including specific tag name data used to modify generic tag names for the equipment items to specific tag names and specific process variables of the equipment items used to modify generic process signal fields to specific process signals, the specific tag names being assigned to the graphical representations of the equipment items and the specific process signals being assigned to the graphical representations of the corresponding process signals.