Patent ID: 8463417

Claim:
A method performed by one or more computer processors for importing data from a machinery monitoring system into a control system, wherein the machinery monitoring system measures one or more machine measurement parameters of a machine and the control system controls one or more processes in which the machine performs a function, the method comprising: (a) accessing a first knowledge base containing generic configuration information about a data storage structure in the machinery monitoring system and information about communicating with the machinery monitoring system; (b) accessing a second knowledge base containing generic configuration information about a data storage structure in the control system and information about communicating with the control system; (c) extracting installation-specific configuration information from the machinery monitoring system via a communication bus; (d) entering information to be used in creating an import configuration file, which file is to be used in preparing the control system to receive data from the machinery monitoring system, the entering performed via a user interface operatively connected to the one or more computer processors; (e) based on the information accessed from the first and second knowledge bases in steps (a) and (b), and the installation-specific configuration information extracted from the machinery monitoring system in step (c), and the information entered in step (d), creating the import configuration file to be used in preparing the control system to receive data from the machinery monitoring system; and (f) based on the import configuration file, transferring data from the machinery monitoring system into the control system.