Plant monitoring apparatus and storage medium

• US 6,950,766 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2001
• Issued: 09/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Masami, Shirai, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Bryan
• Application Number:
  US10/297,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20040098911A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,567 Days
• Field of Search: 702/81, 702/83, 702/84, 702/182, 702/185, 702186-188, 700/97, 700/103, 700/121
• US Class Current: 702/81
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements

Abstract

A plant monitoring apparatus and a storage medium which allow engineering efficiency and data reliability to be improved are provided. There are disposed TAG databases 11a and 11b which store, according to an identifier, fixed parameters which are shared by a monitoring device 2 and a controlling device 3 composing the plant monitoring apparatus 1 and which are correlated with each input point. A distributing means 8 distributes fixed parameters edited by a database editing means 7 to both the monitoring device 2 and the controlling device 3 at a time.

Claims

1. A plant monitoring apparatus configured to input process information from a plant and to monitor the plant, the plant monitoring apparatus comprising;

process information grouping means for grouping the process information according to an identifier unit;

transmitting means for transmitting the grouped process information at a time; and

state change detecting means for detecting a state change of the plant according to the identifier unit,

wherein the transmitting means is configured to transmit current process information only when the state change of the plant has been detected.

2. The plant monitoring apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

means for causing the process information to be consistent according to the identifier unit.

3. The plant monitoring apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the state change detecting means includes change amount detecting means for detecting a change amount of a plant value of the process information according to the identifier unit, and

wherein the transmitting means is configured to transmit the current process information only when the change amount exceeds a predetermined value.

4. The plant monitoring apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

counting means for counting an event notification transmission count according to the identifier unit,

wherein the transmitting means is configured to add the event notification transmission count to an event notification and transmit the event notification to which the event notification transmission count is added.

5. The plant monitoring apparatus as set forth in claim 4, further comprising:

receiving means for receiving the event notification to which the event notification transmission count has been added; and

determining means for determining a reception state of the event notification according to a result from comparing the event notification transmission count and an event notification reception count.

6. The plant monitoring apparatus as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

retransmission requesting means for requesting a retransmission of the event notification according to the reception state.

7. A plant monitoring method configured to input process information from a plant and to monitor the plant, the method comprising:

collecting process information;

grouping the process information according to an identifier unit;

transmitting the grouped process information at a time; and

detecting a state change of the plant according to the identifier unit,

wherein the transmitting occurs when the state change of the plant has been detected.

8. The plant monitoring method as set forth in claim 7, further wherein the transmitting occurs only when the state change of the plant has been detected.