Patent ID: 8898660

Claim:
A method for customizing documentation for software updates or upgrades for a process control system, comprising: compiling general release notes for at least one of an update or an upgrade of a process control system; instrumenting the general release notes to correlate the release notes with a general process control system to produce instrumented notes; providing a predictive assessment of risk associated with the at least one of an update or an upgrade for a particular process control system in advance of installation of the at least one of an update or an upgrade on the particular process control system by matching configuration information for the particular process control system with the instrumented notes to filter the instrumented notes, associate a risk in the instrumented notes for the at least one of an update or an upgrade with a corresponding component of the particular process control system, and produce customized notes for the particular process control system; and providing the customized notes to a user of the particular process control system in conjunction with the at least one of an update or an upgrade to alert the user regarding potential effects of the at least one of an update or an upgrade on the particular process control system.