摘要 |
A big data network 100 for a process control system or plant includes a big data apparatus 102 including a data storage area 120 configured to store, using a common data schema, multiple types of process data and/or plant data such as configuration and real-time data. Data receiver computing devices 122 receive the data from multiple nodes or devices 110, 112, 115. The data may be cached and time-stamped at the nodes and streamed to the big data apparatus 102 for storage. The process control system big data system provides services and/or data analyses to automatically or manually discover prescriptive and/or predictive knowledge, and to determine, based on the discovered knowledge, changes and/or additions to the process control system and to the set of services and/or analyses to optimize the process control system or plant. |