Patent ID: 7840296

Claim:
A method of optimizing industrial production comprising: providing an onsite production process parameter monitoring device to a client for monitoring parameters of a set of field devices associated with a client production process wherein the monitoring device is configured to transmit process data offsite for analysis, and the monitoring device comprises: a remote collector configured to connect to and communicate with a field device within the set of field devices and to receive an application object from the field device, and a communications module configured to transmit the application object offsite; associating the monitoring device with a data output of each field device within the set of field devices, wherein each field device gathers process parameter data associated with an operation performed and provides the data to the monitoring device; monitoring each field device through a plurality of performances of the process, while gathering process parameter data from each performance; and transmitting data included in the application object offsite for analysis, wherein the application object comprises the process parameter data from each performance of the client production process and attributes used for monitoring the client production process.