SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO OVERLAY BEHAVIORS ON FOUNDATION FIELDBUS ALERTS

• US 20150088281A1
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Downor, Johnny Stephen
• Application Number:
  US14/559,283
• Publication Number:
  US 20150088281A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/80
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0425 Safety, monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4186 by protocol, e.g. MAP, TOP
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31121 Fielddevice, field controller, interface connected to fieldbus
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

An industrial control system is provided that includes a field device configured to provide an alert, wherein the field device is configured to receive only a first plurality of behaviors for the alert and a controller of an industrial control system. The controller is configured to receive the alert and to customize a second plurality of behaviors. The controller is further configured to overlay the second plurality of behaviors on the alert, and the controller is configured to process one or more of the second plurality of behaviors differently than the first plurality of behaviors.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a field device configured to provide an alert, wherein the field device is configured to receive only a first plurality of behaviors for the alert; and

a controller of an industrial control system, wherein the controller is configured to;

receive the alert;

customize a second plurality of behaviors;

overlay the second plurality of behaviors on the alert, and the controller is configured to process one or more of the second plurality of behaviors differently than the first plurality of behaviors.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the customize the second plurality of behaviors comprises selecting one or more behaviors not provided by a standard for alert processing, and wherein the standard for alert processing comprises the first plurality of behaviors.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the standard for alert processing comprises a Foundation Fieldbus, an OLE for Process Control Alarms and Events (OPC AE), an OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture (OPC UA), or a combination thereof.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the customize the second plurality of behaviors comprises determining a standard for alert processing supported by the controller.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the second plurality of behaviors comprises a Lock behavior.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the Lock behavior is configured to stop the alert from dithering.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the second plurality of behaviors comprises an Acknowledge behavior, a Unacknowledge behavior, a Lock behavior, an Unlock behavior, an Override behavior, a Remove Override behavior, a Silence behavior, an Unsilence behavior, a Silence Alarm Horn behavior, an In Service behavior, and Out of Service behavior, a Timed Shelve behavior, a One-Shot Shelve behavior, an Unshelve behavior, or a combination thereof.

8. The system of claim 1, comprising an alarm server, wherein the controller is configured to transmit the alert to the alarm server.

9. The system of claim 1, comprising a graphical user interface configured to provide the second plurality of behaviors for selection by a user.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a controller of an industrial control system, a user behavior for an alert of a field device;

determining, by a processor of the controller, if the user behavior comprises one of a first plurality of behaviors or one of a second plurality of behaviors;

customizing, by the processor of the controller, the second plurality of behaviors; and

processing, by a processor of the controller, the user behavior based on the customization.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein processing the user behavior comprises transmitting the behavior to the field device if the user behavior comprises one of the first plurality of behaviors.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the customizing the second plurality of behaviors comprises selecting one or more behaviors not provided by a standard for alert processing, wherein the standard for alert processing comprises the first plurality of behaviors.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein selecting the one or more behaviors comprises applying a user selection of the one or more behaviors, automatically deriving the one or more behaviors based on the standard for alter processing, or a combination thereof.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the second plurality of behaviors comprises an Acknowledge behavior, a Unacknowledge behavior, a Lock behavior, an Unlock behavior, an Override behavior, a Remove Override behavior, a Silence behavior, an Unsilence behavior, a Silence Alarm Horn behavior, an In Service behavior, and Out of Service behavior, a Timed Shelve behavior, a One-Shot Shelve behavior, an Unshelve behavior, or a combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the first plurality of behaviors comprises an Acknowledge behavior.

16. The method of claim 11, comprising the processor transmitting the alert to an alarm server.

17. A non-transitory tangible machine-readable media having executable code stored thereon, the executable code comprising instructions for:

receiving, at a controller of an industrial control system, a user behavior for an alert of a field device;

determining, by a processor of the controller, if the user behavior comprises one of a first plurality of behaviors or one of a second plurality of behaviors;

customizing, by the processor of the controller, the second plurality of behaviors; and

processing, by a processor of the controller, the user behavior based on the customization.

18. The non-transitory tangible machine-readable media of claim 17, wherein the instructions for processing the user behavior comprise instructions for transmitting the behavior to the field device if the user behavior comprises one of the first plurality of behaviors.

19. The non-transitory tangible machine-readable media of claim 17, wherein the instructions for customizing the second plurality of behaviors comprises instructions for selecting one or more behaviors not provided by a standard for alert processing.

20. The non-transitory tangible machine-readable media of claim 17, wherein the field device comprises a Foundation Fieldbus device.