Patent ID: 8914135

Claim:
An integrated monitoring and control system and equipment maintenance and tracking system for managing a plurality of field devices, the field devices including safety subsystem field devices associated with one or more processes or subprocesses and process control subsystem field devices associated with one or more of the processes or subprocesses, the integrated monitoring and control system and equipment maintenance and tracking system comprising: a monitoring and control system including a monitoring and control system memory that stores safety subsystem field device data and process control subsystem field device data, a monitoring and control system processor coupled to the monitoring and control system memory; a status receiving module executable by the processor for receiving a signal from a compromised field device; and an instruction generating module executable by the monitoring and control system processor for generating instructions to test, repair or replace the compromised field device; and an equipment maintenance and tracking system in communication with the monitoring and control system including an equipment maintenance and tracking system memory that stores field device maintenance work orders; an equipment maintenance and tracking system processor coupled to the equipment maintenance and tracking system memory; and a maintenance work order modification module executable by the equipment maintenance and tracking system processor that modifies a work order for the compromised field device, or a field device at a location of the compromised field device, based on instructions generated by the instruction generating module of the monitoring and control system processor.