COMMISSIONING FIELD DEVICES IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM SUPPORTED BY BIG DATA

摘要

Techniques for determining device-specific information such as commissioning data, location information, images, and other data descriptive of a process device installed in a plant include obtaining the device-specific information at a local device during the process device's commissioning. Based on this information, the local device determines the relative order of the process device within a process flow, and may determine a process element alignment map indicating the activation order of a plurality of process elements within the flow. A user may modify the map at the local device. The map is transmitted to a process control big data network for use in discovery and learning analytics. The device-specific information and/or the map may be utilized to generate, at the local device, representations/views of the process flow, which may include real-time operational data. A user may zoom in or out on these views for more or less detail.

主权项

1. A method of determining process element alignment in a process, the method comprising:
obtaining, at a local device in conjunction with commissioning a field device installed in a process plant, identification information of the field device and an indication of a relative process order of the field device with respect to another process device to be used to control the process in the process plant; and providing the identification information and the indication of the relative process order of the field device for use in generating a process element alignment map of the process.