Patent ID: 8326666

Claim:
A method of reporting synchronized events in a process control system of a process plant, comprising: collecting, by an event historian database in the process control system, events corresponding to process data generated by executing a control strategy to control an operation of a process in the process control system, the process control system having one or more process controllers executing one or more control modules in conjunction with one or more function blocks at the one or more field devices to perform a physical function in the process plant to perform executions of process control loops; storing, in the event historian database, the collected events; and executing, by a processor of a computing device in communicative connection with the event historian database, computer executable instructions stored on the memory of the computing device to: obtain, at the computing device of the process control system, a synchronization parameter, the synchronization parameter being a parameter of the process control system having instances of occurrence of a measurable time duration; extract, by the computing device from the event historian database of the process control system, first data for a first event corresponding to the synchronization parameter, the first event occurring over a first time interval; extract, by the computing device from the event historian database, second data for a second event corresponding to the synchronization parameter, the second event occurring over a second time interval and the first and the second time intervals are non-contiguous; generate, by the computing device, a synchronized value based on the first and the second data; and generate, by the computing device, an event synchronized report for the synchronization parameter, the event synchronized report including the synchronized value.