公开(公告)号：US11656610B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US17182468

申请日：2021-02-23

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC

Inventor： Aaron C. Jones ,  Michael G. Ott ,  Julian K. Naidoo ,  Deborah R. Colclazier ,  Karen Johnson

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/05 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F9/54

CPC classification number: G05B19/4185 ,  G05B19/052 ,  G05B19/056 ,  G05B19/058 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F9/542

Abstract: The described techniques enable a skid communicator tool to quickly change network settings to those required by a particular skid or network in a process control environment with which a user of the tool wishes to establish communication. These techniques are helpful because skids and networks in process control environments often require different network settings for any device attempting to communicate with the skids or network, and a user often must manually load these network settings every time she wants to communicate with a different network or skid. By contrast, the techniques enable the skid communicator tool to seamlessly connect to, disconnect from, and reconnect to any of the skids or other networks requiring different network settings with minimal input from the user, thus enabling a user to easily move through and interact with different areas, units, or equipment of the process control environment.

公开(公告)号：US11209806B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US16130700

申请日：2018-09-13

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Aaron C. Jones ,  Michael G. Ott ,  Julian K. Naidoo ,  Deborah R. Colclazier ,  Karen Johnson

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G05B23/02 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G06F8/71 ,  G06F8/65

Abstract: A method for efficiently managing configuration of modular control systems includes Detecting a communicative coupling between a workstation and a modular control system, determining whether an active project stored in a memory of the workstation matches a saved project stored in a memory of the modular control system, where each of the active project and the saved project includes a respective coordinated set of data for controlling operation of the modular control system, and when the active project and the saved project do not match, (i) determining whether the active project is correct for the modular control system, and (ii) when the active project is incorrect the modular control system, automatically providing, via an interactive user interface, a control for transferring at least a portion of the saved project from the memory of the modular control system to the active project in the memory of the workstation.

公开(公告)号：US20210341907A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-04

申请号：US16861567

申请日：2020-04-29

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Camilo Fadul ,  Aaron C. Jones ,  Christopher Cho

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G06F13/20

Abstract: An Ethernet I/O card (EIOC) scanner device facilitates configuration of a process control system to enable improved integration of EIOC-enabled field devices (and associated field device variables) into the process control system. Specifically, the EIOC scanner may: (i) analyze decoder files for EIOC-enabled field devices to automatically identify field device variables that the EIOC-enabled field devices are configured to transmit or receive; and (ii) quickly and easily facilitate a configuration of the process control system to integrate into the process control system the EIOC-enabled field devices and any associated field device variables identified by the EIOC scanner.

公开(公告)号：US20190079507A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-14

申请号：US16130700

申请日：2018-09-13

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Aaron C. Jones ,  Michael G. Ott ,  Julian K. Naidoo ,  Deborah R. Colclazier ,  Karen Johnson

IPC: G05B23/02 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0482

Abstract: A method for efficiently managing configuration of modular control systems includes Detecting a communicative coupling between a workstation and a modular control system, determining whether an active project stored in a memory of the workstation matches a saved project stored in a memory of the modular control system, where each of the active project and the saved project includes a respective coordinated set of data for controlling operation of the modular control system, and when the active project and the saved project do not match, (i) determining whether the active project is correct for the modular control system, and (ii) when the active project is incorrect the modular control system, automatically providing, via an interactive user interface, a control for transferring at least a portion of the saved project from the memory of the modular control system to the active project in the memory of the workstation.

公开(公告)号：US09008814B2

公开(公告)日：2015-04-14

申请号：US14096772

申请日：2013-12-04

Applicant: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Nathan W. Pettus ,  Godfrey R. Sherriff ,  Aaron C. Jones ,  Dawn Marruchella

IPC: G06F19/00 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G06F17/00

CPC classification number: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/41835 ,  G05B2219/32077 ,  G05B2219/32096 ,  G06F17/00 ,  Y02P90/12 ,  Y02P90/18 ,  Y02P90/20 ,  Y10S715/965

Abstract: A method of executing a batch process in a manufacturing environment according to a product recipe, such that the product recipe specifies a plurality of actions and a plurality of parameters, includes performing at least one action of the batch process corresponding to a first version of the product recipe, receiving a second version of the product recipe, such that the second version of the product recipe is distinct from the first version of the product recipe, suspending the execution of the batch process prior to completion of the batch process, and resuming the execution of the batch process according to the second version of the product recipe.

Abstract translation: 一种在制造环境中根据产品配方执行批处理的方法，使得产品配方指定多个动作和多个参数，包括执行与第一版本的批处理相对应的至少一个动作 产品配方，接收产品配方的第二版本，使得产品配方的第二版本与产品配方的第一版本不同，在批处理完成之前暂停执行批处理，并且恢复 根据产品配方的第二版执行批处理。

公开(公告)号：US08612042B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-17

申请号：US13757503

申请日：2013-02-01

Applicant: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Nathan W. Pettus ,  Godfrey R. Sherriff ,  Aaron C. Jones ,  Dawn Marruchella

IPC: G06F19/00

CPC classification number: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/41835 ,  G05B2219/32077 ,  G05B2219/32096 ,  G06F17/00 ,  Y02P90/12 ,  Y02P90/18 ,  Y02P90/20 ,  Y10S715/965

Abstract: A method of executing a batch process in a manufacturing environment according to a product recipe, such that the product recipe specifies a plurality of actions and a plurality of parameters, includes performing at least one action of the batch process corresponding to a first version of the product recipe, receiving a second version of the product recipe, such that the second version of the product recipe is distinct from the first version of the product recipe, suspending the execution of the batch process prior to completion of the batch process, and resuming the execution of the batch process according to the second version of the product recipe.

公开(公告)号：US12228897B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-18

申请号：US18223395

申请日：2023-07-18

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Brian Lamothe ,  Narayanan Doraiswamy ,  Mark J. Nixon ,  Aaron C. Jones ,  Antonio Ubach ,  Sean Hernandez ,  Sireesha Dakoju ,  Krishna Joshi ,  Matthew Villarrubia

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05B19/414 ,  G05B19/418 ,  H04L9/40

Abstract: A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric includes an application layer that includes configured containers or containerized software modules that perform various control, monitoring and configuration activities with respect to one or more devices, control strategies and control loops, sites, plants, or facilities at which control is performed, and includes a physical layer including computer processing and data storage equipment that can be located at any desired location, including at or near a site, plant, or facility at which control is being performed, at a dedicated location away from the location at which control is being performed, in re-assignable computer equipment provided in the cloud, or any combination thereof. This control architecture enables significant amounts of both computer processing and IT infrastructure that is used to support a process plant, an industrial control facility or other automation facility to be implemented in a shared, in an offsite and/or in a virtualized manner that alleviates many of the communications and security issues present in current process and industrial control systems that attempt to implement control with shared or virtualized computing resources set up according to the well-known Purdue model.
The industrial control system architecture is protected via more secure and customizable techniques as compared to those used in Purdue model-based control systems. For example, communications between any (and in some cases, all) endpoints of the system may be protected via one or more virtual private networks to which authenticated endpoints must be authorized to access. Endpoints may include, for example, containerized components, physical components, devices, sites or locations, the compute fabric, and the like, and the VPNs may include mutually-exclusive and/or nested VPNs. External applications and services, whether automated or executing under the purview of a person, may access information and services provided by the system via only APIs, and different sets of APIs may be exposed to different users that have been authenticated and authorized to access respective sets of APIs.
A configuration system operates within the compute fabric to enable a user to easily make configuration changes to the compute fabric as the user does not generally need to specify the computer hardware within the compute fabric to use to make the configuration changes, making it possible for the user to deploy new configuration elements with simple programming steps, and in some cases with the push of a button.

公开(公告)号：US11615175B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-28

申请号：US17020971

申请日：2020-09-15

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Aaron C. Jones ,  Andrew E. Cutchin

IPC: G06F21/00 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06F16/635 ,  G06F16/683 ,  G06V40/10 ,  G06V40/20 ,  G06V40/16 ,  G05B19/409

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods of the present disclosure may provide access security in a process control system. For example, current biometric data representative of a user may be acquired and compared to stored biometric data representative of previously identified users. Access to the process control system may be authorized when the current biometric data matches stored biometric data.

公开(公告)号：US20210173386A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US17182468

申请日：2021-02-23

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC

Inventor： Aaron C. Jones ,  Michael G. Ott ,  Julian K. Naidoo ,  Deborah R. Colclazier ,  Karen Johnson

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/05 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F9/54

Abstract: The described techniques enable a skid communicator tool to quickly change network settings to those required by a particular skid or network in a process control environment with which a user of the tool wishes to establish communication. These techniques are helpful because skids and networks in process control environments often require different network settings for any device attempting to communicate with the skids or network, and a user often must manually load these network settings every time she wants to communicate with a different network or skid. By contrast, the techniques enable the skid communicator tool to seamlessly connect to, disconnect from, and reconnect to any of the skids or other networks requiring different network settings with minimal input from the user, thus enabling a user to easily move through and interact with different areas, units, or equipment of the process control environment.

公开(公告)号：US20130150995A1

公开(公告)日：2013-06-13

申请号：US13757503

申请日：2013-02-01

Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Nathan W. Pettus ,  Godfrey R. Sheriff ,  Aaron C. Jones ,  Dawn Marruchella

IPC: G06F17/00

CPC classification number: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/41835 ,  G05B2219/32077 ,  G05B2219/32096 ,  G06F17/00 ,  Y02P90/12 ,  Y02P90/18 ,  Y02P90/20 ,  Y10S715/965

Abstract: A method of executing a batch process in a manufacturing environment according to a product recipe, such that the product recipe specifies a plurality of actions and a plurality of parameters, includes performing at least one action of the batch process corresponding to a first version of the product recipe, receiving a second version of the product recipe, such that the second version of the product recipe is distinct from the first version of the product recipe, suspending the execution of the batch process prior to completion of the batch process, and resuming the execution of the batch process according to the second version of the product recipe.

Abstract translation: 一种在制造环境中根据产品配方执行批处理的方法，使得产品配方指定多个动作和多个参数，包括执行与第一版本的批处理相对应的至少一个动作 产品配方，接收产品配方的第二版本，使得产品配方的第二版本与产品配方的第一版本不同，在批处理完成之前暂停执行批处理，并且恢复 根据产品配方的第二版执行批处理。