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 operated by a user during commissioning of a field device installed in a process plant, identification information of the field device; determining, by the local device based on a physical location at which the field device is installed, 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, by the local device, the identification information and an indication of the relative process order of the field device for use in generating a process element alignment map of the process, the process alignment map of the process indicating an order of activation of each of a plurality of process elements in a flow of materials within the process plant while the process is being controlled, the plurality of process elements including the field device and the another process device.