Patent ID: 8056062

Claim:
A method for modifying a turbine control system, the method comprising: providing a first application code format comprising one or more elements; providing a second application code format comprising one or more elements; identifying mappings of said one or more elements of said first application code format to said one or more elements of said second application code format; retrieving a first turbine control system application code comprising said first application code format, wherein the first turbine control system application code comprises turbine system control logic or turbine control system input-output (IO) configuration information; generating application data from said first turbine control system application code based at least in part on said identified mappings, wherein the application data is stored as one or more ASCII text files and parsed into one or more XML files prior to conversion; and converting said application data to a second turbine control system application code comprising said second application code format, wherein the second turbine control system application code comprises translated turbine system control logic or translated turbine system control input-output (IO) configuration information.