HISTORIANS EMBEDDED IN INDUSTRIAL UNITS

• US 20110196528A1
• Filed: 04/18/2011
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Inventors: Palmieri, Frank Anthony JR., Baier, John J., Campbell, John T., McGreevy, Robert J., Herbst, Robert J., Jasper, Taryl J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,805,760 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/108
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/04 Manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/30 Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing

Abstract

Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit'"'"'s operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof.

Claims

1. An industrial automation system, comprising:

a historian configured to be integrated with a manufactured product, wherein the historian is further configured to store data pertinent to manufacture of the product.

2. The industrial automation system of claim 1, wherein the integrated historian further comprises a locator component configured to locate at least one historian associated with manufacture of the product.

3. The industrial automation system of claim 2, wherein the locator component is configured to employ a directory and discover service to communicate with the at least one historian.

4. The industrial automation system of claim 3, wherein the directory and discover service includes a network directory to facilitate at least one of determination of physical addresses from logical names or determination of logical names from physical addresses.

5. The industrial automation system of claim 1, wherein the integrated historian further comprises a publish and subscribe component configured to facilitate, in response to a change in the data, at least one of publication or generation of the data.

6. The industrial automation system of claim 1, wherein the integrated historian further comprises a visualization component configured to display data collected by the integrated historian.

7. The industrial automation system of claim 6, wherein the data is related to at least one of a specific process, a specific machine, or an aspect of machine control, pertaining to manufacture of the product.

8. The industrial automation system of claim 6, wherein the visualization component is further configured to display the data in accord with at least one of granularity associated with fault detection or alert triggering, a multi-tiered representation of an industrial process associated with the product, a requirement of an enterprise resource planning application, or to facilitate allocation/distribution of resources.

9. The industrial automation system of claim 1, wherein the integrated historian is further configured to communicate directly with at least one historian.

10. The industrial automation system of claim 1, wherein the integrated historian is further configured to associate a visualization attribute with the data.

11. A method for utilizing a historian, integratable with a product manufactured in an industrial plant comprising:

storing data on the historian, wherein the data is pertaining to manufacture of the product.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

communicating with at least one other historian.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

retrieving data from the at least one other historian, the data pertaining to manufacture of the product.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying the data at the historian.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining which data to display according to at least one of fault detection, alarms associated with manufacturing of the product, a multi-tiered representation of an industrial process associated with the product, a requirement of an enterprise resource planning application associated with the product, or facilitating allocating/distributing of resources.

16. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computer system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

identifying at least one historian associated with manufacture of a product;

retrieving data from the at least one historian; and

storing the data on a storage device integrated with the product

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the identifying further comprising utilizing a directory.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising, utilizing the directory to facilitate determining at least one of physical addresses from logical names or logical names from physical addresses for the at least one historian.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising displaying the stored data on a display associated with the integrated storage device.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the displaying is a function of at least one of detecting a fault associated with the product, identifying an alarm associated with the product, a multi-tiered representation of an industrial process associated with the product, a requirement of an enterprise resource planning application associated with the product, or facilitating allocating/distributing of resources.