Patent ID: 8219669

Claim:
A system for collecting and reporting operational process control data describing one or more components of a monitored process, the system comprising: an application server for receiving operational process control data from one or more operational process control servers, each being associated with the one or more components of the monitored process; a data visualization server for receiving the data from the application server and producing reports based on the data; and a server configuration user interface for facilitating specification of a plurality of configuration parameters of the operational process control servers according to operational process control unified architecture standards, the server configuration user interface comprising an operational process control toolkit for: generating, configuring, and deploying the operational process control servers, wherein the generating comprises defining a data transport layer for operational process control data and an operational process control customization interface for facilitating the definition of device-specific logic independent of the transport layer, defining at least one connection to a database for loading data into the operational process control servers, and creating logical objects within the operational process control servers and mapping the logical objects to physical operational process control devices.