Patent ID: 7328078

Claim:
A system for monitoring performance of an industrial process comprising: a block manager operable to configure a block processor and application objects; and a service portal configured to communicate with the block manager, and to collect, transmit, and analyze parameter data from a process field device, the service portal comprising: a network connection configured to connect the service portal to the process field device and a process control device of the industrial process, the process control device being associated with the process field device; a remote collector configured to collect the application objects from the process field device and the block processor of the process control device using control blocks, the application objects including real-time and archived parameter data from the process field device; a processor configured to perform a real-time loop analysis of the industrial process using the collected application objects; a historian database configured to store the collected application objects; a communications module configured to transmit the stored application objects to a remote monitoring station; and a block configurator configured to: save block types to a block database, generate an application object file from the saved block types, control the block manager to transfer the application object file to the block processor, and control the block processor to create the application objects from the application object files.