Patent ID: 8836497
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A method for configuring an analog process alarm in a digital control system, the method comprising: creating, within the digital control system, one or more templates, wherein each template includes one or more alias names for corresponding one or more analog alarm sub-variables associated with an analog process variable; providing to a user, via a human-machine interface, an analog alarm virtual block diagram visualizing processing logic associated with the analog process variable within the digital control system; receiving, from the user, a request to select a template from the one or more templates; and based on the selection of the template, automatically generating the one or more alias names for the corresponding one or more analog alarm sub-variables of the analog process alarm by substituting different portions of the name of an analog alarm sub-variable, wherein the one or more alias names are defined directly on the analog process variable.