Patent ID: 8060834
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G05B,G06F,G06N,G06Q,G06T,H04L,Y02A,Y02P,Y04S,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A configuration system for use in a process plant having a plurality of physical and logical process entities which operate together to perform a process and a process controller communicatively connected to the plurality of physical and logical process entities to implement a control routine to control the operation of the process plant, the configuration system comprising: an executable graphic display that includes one or more visual depictions to be displayed on a display device when the graphic display is executed, a parameter memory adapted to store a value of a parameter and a binding memory adapted to store a reference for communicatively connecting the parameter memory to a data source within the process plant; a configuration database that stores an indication of the physical and logical process entities and an indication of the executable graphic display; and a configuration engine that enables a user to configure the operation of the graphic display by associating the graphic display within the configuration database with one of the indications of the physical and logical process entities within the configuration database to bind the visual depictions of the executable graphic display to particular physical or logical process entities in the process plant; wherein the configuration database manages the visual depictions of the executable graphic display separately from bindings between executable graphic display and the physical and logical process entities.