Patent ID: 8056056
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G05B,G06F,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for configuring a process control system, the apparatus comprising: a database containing an object, referred to herein as an “ancestor object ,” in a program adapted to execute on a digital data processing device, the ancestor object representing an entity in any of a controlled process, process control system, control level hierarchy, and apparatus for configuring the control system, the ancestor object including parameters, referred to herein as “ancestor object parameters,” reflective of one or more entities that compose an entity represented by the ancestor object, the program facilitating (i) any of creation and modification of a configuration of any of a control system and a system controlled thereby and (ii) display of at least a portion of such a configuration, the configuration including: wherein the program facilitates tracking a change history of the ancestor object.