OPERATIONAL PROCESS CONTROL DATA SERVER

• US 20090210071A1
• Filed: 10/10/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iconics, Inc. (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Iconics, Inc. (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Burian, Jan, Griessl, Rudolf, Prochazka, Milan, Jedlicka, Jindrich, Lederbuch, Pavel, Agrusa, Russell L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,219,669 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/9
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

A system for implementing operational process control servers includes an application server for receiving operational process control data from operational process control servers associated with components of the monitored process, a data visualization server for receiving the data from the application server and producing reports based on the data, and a server configuration user interface for facilitating specification of configuration parameters of the operational process control servers according to operational process control unified architecture standards.

Claims

1. A system for collecting and reporting operational process control data describing one or more components of a monitored process, the system comprising:

an application server for receiving operational process control data from one or more operational process control servers, each being associated with the one or more components of the monitored process;

a data visualization server for receiving the data from the application server and producing reports based on the data; and

a server configuration user interface for facilitating specification of a plurality of configuration parameters of the operational process control servers according to operational process control unified architecture standards.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a data storage module for storing the plurality of configuration parameters.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the application server further comprises a unified data manager component for normalizing the received operational process control data.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the application server further comprises a operational process control engine for analyzing the operational process control data with respect to one or more rules to determine a status of the components of the monitored process.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the application server further comprises an communications stack for communicating with the operational process control servers using a plurality of communication protocols.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the data visualization server further comprises a custom charting toolkit for facilitating the design of user-specified graphical representations of the operational process control data.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the data visualization server further comprises a workflow engine for routing the reports to client workstations based at least in part on the contents of the reports.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the server configuration user interface further comprises an operational process control toolkit for mapping logical objects stored within the application server to physical operational process control devices.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the operational process control toolkit further comprises a template database, stored procedures and database connection strings to facilitate the creation of a database consistent with operational process control unified architecture standards.

10. A method for programmatically configuring a server for collecting and reporting operational process control data describing one or more components of a monitored process, the method comprising:

defining a plurality of business objects, each business object being associated with the one or more components of the monitored process;

defining a data layer for each of the business objects, the data layer facilitating the communication of operational process control data from an operational process control data source;

defining software methods based on the business objects and data layer;

defining a data entry form for each business object, the data entry forms being bound to the software method based on the respective business object; and

configuring a runtime operational process control server for collecting and reporting data based on the business objects, data layers and methods.