System and method for communicating device descriptions between a control system and a plurality of controlled devices

• US 20050123884A1
• Filed: 11/23/2004
• Published: 06/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Walls, William R., Reynolds, Brian, Zerdoum, Kamel
• Granted Patent: US 7,251,534 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/118
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25095 Detect kind of display to configure display routine
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25428 Field device
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/965 for process control and configuration

Abstract

A system that employs a chosen one of a plurality of presentation selections to present information from a field device. The system has a field device interface that configures the field device in accordance with the chosen presentation selection. A control configurator programs the field device interface in accordance with the chosen presentation selection.

Claims

1. A system that employs a chosen one of a plurality of presentation selections to present information from a field device, said system comprising:

a field device interface employable to configure said field device in accordance with said chosen one of said plurality of presentation selections; and

a control configurator employable to program said field device interface in accordance with said chosen one of said plurality of presentation selections.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said presentation selections are selected from the group consisting of:

a view only presentation selection, a journal only presentation selection, and an alarm and journal presentation selection, and any combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a runtime database coupled to said field device interface.

4. The system of claim 3, further comprising a runtime controller coupled to said runtime database.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said presentation selection is a journal only presentation selection and wherein said runtime controller is employable to use a monitor for said journal only presentation selection.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising an engineering repository database coupled to said control configurator.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a device description manager coupled in circuit to said control configurator.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said device description manager receives a device description file.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said device description file comprises manufacturer labels.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said presentation format is at least one selected from the group consisting of a view only presentation selection, a journal only presentation selection, and an alarm and journal presentation selection.

10. A method for presenting information to an operator of a control system, comprising:

selecting a presentation format;

configuring a field device of said control system to indicate that said information is to be presented in said selected presentation format; and

displaying said information in said selected presentation format to said operator.

11. The method of claim 11, further comprising associating a label with said information after said displaying step.

13. A storage medium comprising instructions for controlling a processor to:

employ a field device interface to configure a field device in accordance with a chosen one of a plurality of presentation selections; and

program said field device interface in accordance with said chosen one of said plurality of presentation selections.