Industrial Automation Packaged Power Solution for Intelligent Motor Control and Intelligent Switchgear with Energy Management

摘要

Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for interfacing process controllers in a process automation system with one or more intelligent electrical devices of an electrical automation system to use process and electrical control space information to perform actions and make decisions regarding actions in a connected enterprise system to facilitate energy management goals as well as process control goals in view of electrical control space information and process control space information.

主权项

1. A method of providing time synchronization of facility wide data between a process automation system with one or more control devices to control one or more processes and an electrical automation system with one or more intelligent electrical devices (IEDs) to provide power to the process automation system, the method comprising:
distributing a time signal from a timing device through a first network operatively coupled with the control devices of the process automation system; and distributing the time signal from the timing device through a second network operatively coupled with the IEDs of the electrical automation system.