Remotely monitoring/diagnosing distributed components of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application from a central location
First Claim
1. A supervisory process control and manufacturing information system including:
- a process control and manufacturing information application comprising a set of software objects distributable to a plurality of networked computer devices; and
a centralized diagnostics management tool facilitating monitoring operational status of the set of software objects of the supervisory process control and manufacturing information application,wherein the-process control and manufacturing information application has a layered architecture comprising;
application objects that model entities within a process control system,engine objects that host execution of the application objects in a run-time environment, andplatform objects, corresponding to a physical computer system component for executing the engine objects and associated application objects, and wherein the platform objects host one or more of the engine objects.
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Abstract
A centralized diagnostics management tool is disclosed that facilitates centralized monitoring of distributed components of a supervisory process control and manufacturing information application. The centralized diagnostics management tool includes a diagnostics management console shell that is customized according to a set of software modules that interface to data sources to populate views supported by the console shell. The console shell includes a set of view templates including controls for manipulating graphically displayed representations of data rendered by the distributed components. The console shell also includes an interface for exchanging requests and data with an extensible set of software modules that provide data links to ones of the set of distributed components. The software modules also define the customizable portions of the view rendered by the console shell.
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1. A supervisory process control and manufacturing information system including:
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a process control and manufacturing information application comprising a set of software objects distributable to a plurality of networked computer devices; and a centralized diagnostics management tool facilitating monitoring operational status of the set of software objects of the supervisory process control and manufacturing information application, wherein the-process control and manufacturing information application has a layered architecture comprising; application objects that model entities within a process control system, engine objects that host execution of the application objects in a run-time environment, and platform objects, corresponding to a physical computer system component for executing the engine objects and associated application objects, and wherein the platform objects host one or more of the engine objects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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15. The system of claim l4 wherein the bi-directional access includes issuing commands to the software objects.
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