Patent Document ID: 8332193
Application ID: 12372731
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computerized method for automatically providing a tieback simulation model for control system checkout in a virtual runtime environment, the method comprising: creating, by a computing device, a virtual representation of at least portion of the control system to be simulated, said virtual representation comprising one or more defined elements and one or more I/O components; providing, by the computing device, a simulation model library comprising one or more tieback models representing process component response behaviors to inputs in a simulated control system; applying, by the computing device, the defined elements of the control system to the one or more tieback model in the provided simulation library to automatically create one or more process simulation model objects; and connecting, by the computing device, the one or more rendered process simulation model objects to the one or more I/O components of the virtual representation of the control system to render the tieback simulation model for the virtual representation.