Patent ID: 7330767
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A process control configuration system for use in creating or viewing a control block having an integrated optimizer and a multiple-input/multiple-output control routine, comprising: a computer readable medium; a configuration routine stored on the computer readable medium for execution on a processor, the configuration routine including; a storage routine that stores information pertaining to a plurality of control and auxiliary variables and to a multiplicity of manipulated variables used by the integrated optimizer and the multiple-input/multiple-output control routine; a display routine that presents a display to a user regarding one or more of the control, auxiliary and manipulated variables; and wherein the display routine when executed further displays a screen that enables a user to view stored information pertaining to one of the set of manipulated variables, the set of control variables and the set of auxiliary variables and tabs associated with the others of the set of the manipulated variables, the set of the control variables and the set of the auxiliary variables which can be selected to view the others of the set of the manipulated variables, the set of the control variables and the set of the auxiliary variables, and a multiplicity of parameters associated with each variable within the one of the set of control variables, the set of auxiliary variables, the set of the manipulated variables and a communication path name as one of the multiplicity of parameters.