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Contextualization for historians in industrial systems

  • US 7,930,639 B2
  • Filed: 09/26/2007
  • Issued: 04/19/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An industrial automation system, comprising:

  • one or more processors;

    a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to implement the system, including;

    a plurality of embedded historians configured to collect data associated with an industrial process within an organization;

    a hierarchical data model representing the organization and distributed across at least two system components within the organization, wherein the hierarchical data model exposes functionality of at least a first of the plurality of embedded historians to at least one of a second of the plurality of embedded historians or one or more of the at least two system components; and

    a correlation component that infers relationships between events and operation of the industrial process based on the data, the correlation component comprising at least an implicit correlation component configured to infer relationships between causes of triggering events substantially in real-time.

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