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DATA PIPELINE FOR PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM ANAYTICS

  • US 20160098037A1
  • Filed: 10/02/2015
  • Published: 04/07/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A plant communication system for use within a process plant environment that implements a process, comprising:

  • a process control network including a multiplicity of process control devices disposed within the process plant to control the process and a process control communication network communicatively coupled to the multiplicity of process control devices, wherein one or more of the multiplicity of process control devices collects or generates process control data;

    a further plant communication network including a plurality of processing devices communicatively coupled together by a further plant communication network link, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing devices on the further plant communication network is communicatively connected to the process control communication network; and

    a distributed data pipeline including a series of data processing modules communicatively connected together in a particular communicative order to perform processing on process control data in the particular communicative order such that the data pipeline includes one or more upstream data processing modules coupled to a set of downstream data processing modules, wherein each of the set of downstream data processing modules within the data pipeline process data received from one or more upstream data processing modules within the data pipeline, and wherein at least one of the one or more upstream data processing modules of the data pipeline is disposed in one of the multiplicity of process control devices connected to the process control communication network and at least one of the downstream data processing modules of the data pipeline is disposed in one of the plurality of processing devices on the further plant communication network.

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