SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEVICE COMMISSIONING AND DECOMMISSIONING

• US 20140025186A1
• Filed: 07/19/2012
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Ojha, Pradyumna, Banerjee, Abhik, Vishwanath, Guruprasad Karkala
• Application Number:
  US13/553,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20140025186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/83
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence

Abstract

The embodiments described herein include a system and a method. In one embodiment, a system a system includes a commissioning system configured to operatively couple a field device to a control system. The system further includes a decommissioning system configured to operatively uncouple the field device from the control system. The system additionally includes a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to use the commissioning system, the decommissioning system, or a combination thereof, to operatively couple the field device to the control system, operatively uncouple the field device to the control system, or a combination thereof, by using a plurality of field device states. A linking device is configured to communicatively couple the field device to the control system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a commissioning system configured to operatively couple a field device to a control system;

a decommissioning system configured to operatively uncouple the field device from the control system; and

a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to use the commissioning system, the decommissioning system, or a combination thereof, to operatively couple the field device to the control system, operatively uncouple the field device to the control system, or a combination thereof, by using a plurality of field device states, wherein a linking device is configured to communicatively couple the field device to the control system.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of field device states comprises at least one mismatched state.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one mismatched state comprises a physical device (PD) tag assigned to the field device, a permanent node identification (ID) assigned to the field device, and a node address not assigned to the field device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of field device states comprises at least one uninitialized state, at least one initialized state, at least one commissioned state, or a combination thereof.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of field device states comprises only a mismatched state, an uninitialized state, an initialized state, and a commissioned state.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the field device comprises a Fieldbus Foundation field device, a HART field device, a Profibus field device, or a combination thereof.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI comprises a hierarchical control configured to display visualizations representative of the linking device, the field device, the plurality of field device states, or a combination thereof.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the visualizations representative of the plurality of field device states comprise a plurality of graphical icons.

9. The system of claim 1, comprising a high speed Ethernet network and a Foundation H1 network, wherein the linking device is configured to link the high speed Ethernet network to the Foundation H1 network, and the field device is attached to the Foundation H1 network.

10. The system of claim 1, comprising a placeholder representative of the field device, and wherein the commissioning system is configured to use the placeholder to commission the field device.

11. The system of claim 1, comprising a turbine system, a power generation system, or a combination thereof, having the field device.

12. A method, comprising:

deriving a state of a field device;

displaying a visual representation of the state, wherein the visual representation comprises a graphical icon;

displaying a first placeholder configured to be representative of the field device; and

commissioning the field device based on the state and by using the first placeholder.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the state comprises a mismatched state, an uninitialized state, an initialized state, or a combination thereof.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the mismatched state comprises a physical device (PD) tag assigned to the field device, a permanent node identification (ID) assigned to the field device, and wherein no node address has been assigned to the field device.

15. The method of claim 12, comprising displaying a second placeholder representative of the field device, and wherein commissioning the field device comprises using the first placeholder or the second placeholder.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein commissioning the field device comprises using a physical device (PD) tag, a manufacture identification (ID), a node ID, a device type, a device revision, a device description (DD) revision, or a combination of, included in the first placeholder.

17. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium comprising executable code, the executable code comprising instructions for:

deriving a state of a field device;

displaying a visual representation of the state, wherein the visual representation comprises a graphical icon;

displaying a first placeholder representative of the field device; and

commissioning the field device based on the state and by using the first placeholder.

18. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the state comprises a mismatched state.

19. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the mismatched state comprises a physical device (PD) tag assigned to the field device, a permanent node identification (ID) assigned to the field device, and wherein no node address has been assigned to the field device.

20. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 17, comprising displaying a second placeholder representative of the field device, and wherein commissioning the field device comprises using the first placeholder or the second placeholder.