Systems and methods for improved device commissioning and decommissioning

• US 9,052,708 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2012
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology, LLC (General Electric Company)
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Vishwanath, Guruprasad Karkala, Ojha, Pradyumna, Banerjee, Abhik
• Primary Examiner(s): Fennema, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Norton, Jennifer L
• Application Number:
  US13/604,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20140067091A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,007 Days
• Field of Search: 700/1, 700/17, 700/18, 700/83, 706/45, 709/221, 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4183 characterised by data acquisition, e.g. workpiece identification
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41845 characterised by system universality, reconfigurability, modularity
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31121 Fielddevice, field controller, interface connected to fieldbus
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31334 Database with devices, configuration, of plant
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32137 Configure, connect, combine different program modules
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32144 Define device description using dd files
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

The embodiments described herein include a system and a method. In one embodiment, a system includes a commissioning system configured to operatively couple a field device to a control system. The system further includes a decommissioning system configured to operatively uncouple the field device from the control system. The system additionally includes a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to use the commissioning system, the decommissioning system, or a combination thereof, to operatively couple the field device to the control system, operatively uncouple the field device to the control system, or a combination thereof, by using a plurality of field device states comprising a mismatched state and a commissioned state, wherein the commissioning system is configured to transition the field device from the mismatched state into the commissioned state if the field device is determined to be in the mismatched state.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor configured to execute;

a commissioning system configured to operatively couple a field device to a control system;

a decommissioning system configured to operatively uncouple the field device from the control system; and

a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to use the commissioning system, the decommissioning system, or a combination thereof, to operatively couple the field device to the control system, operatively uncouple the field device to the control system, or a combination thereof, by using a plurality of field device states comprising a mismatched state and a commissioned state, wherein the commissioning system is configured to transition the field device from the mismatched state into the commissioned state if the field device is determined to be in the mismatched state, and wherein the commissioning system is configured to determine if a first permanent node identification (ID) assigned to the field device is available for commissioning, and if the first permanent node ID is available, then to assign a first physical device (PD) tag to the field device and to skip a second permanent node ID deletion and a second permanent node ID reassignment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the commissioning system is configured to determine if the first permanent node ID assigned to the field device is available for commissioning, and if the first permanent node ID is not available, then to delete first permanent node ID and a first PD tag assigned to the field device and to assign a temporary node ID, a second PD tag, and a second permanent node ID to the field device.

3. The system of claim 1, comprising a linking device configured to communicatively couple the field device to the control system.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of field device states comprises only the mismatched state, an uninitialized state, an initialized state, and the commissioned state.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the mismatched state comprises a PD tag assigned to the field device, a permanent node ID assigned to the field device, and a node address not assigned to the field device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the GUI comprises a hierarchical control configured to display visualizations representative of a linking device, the field device, the plurality of field device states, or a combination thereof.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the visualizations representative of the plurality of field device states comprise a plurality of graphical icons.

8. The system of claim 1, comprising a high speed Ethernet network and a Foundation H1 network, wherein a linking device is configured to link the high speed Ethernet network to the Foundation H1 network, and the field device is attached to the Foundation H1 network.

9. The system of claim 1, comprising a placeholder representative of the field device, wherein the commissioning system is configured to use the placeholder to commission the field device.

10. The system of claim 1, comprising a turbine system, a power generation system, or a combination thereof, having the field device.

11. A method, comprising:

detecting the coupling of a field device to a control system;

determining a state for the field device;

assigning a first permanent node identification (ID) and a first physical device (PD) tag to the field device if the field device is not in a mismatched state, wherein assigning the first permanent node ID and the first PD tag transitions the field device to a commissioned state, and

determining if a second permanent node ID assigned to the field device is available for commissioning if the field device is in the mismatched state,

if the second permanent node ID is not available, then deleting the second permanent node ID and a second PD tag assigned to the field device, and assigning a temporary node ID, a third PD tag, and a third permanent node ID to the field device.

12. The method of claim 11, comprising:

if the second permanent node ID is available, then assigning the second PD tag to the field device and skipping the assigning of the temporary node ID, the third PD tag, and the third permanent node ID to the field device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the mismatched state comprises a PD tag assigned to the field device, a permanent node ID assigned to the field device, and wherein no node address has been assigned to the field device.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein commissioning the field device comprises using a PD tag, a manufacture identification (ID), a node ID, a device type, a device revision, a device description (DD) revision, or a combination of, included in a placeholder.

15. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium comprising executable code, the executable code comprising instructions for:

detecting the coupling of a field device to a control system;

determining a state for the field device;

assigning a first permanent node identification (ID) and a first physical device (PD) tag to the field device if the field device is not in a mismatched state, wherein assigning the first permanent node ID and the first PD tag transitions the field device to a commissioned state; and

determining if the field device is in the mismatched state;

if the field device is in the mismatched state, then determining if a second permanent node ID assigned to the field device is available for commissioning; and

if the second permanent node ID is not available, then deleting the second permanent node ID and a second PD tag assigned to the field device, and assigning a temporary node ID, a third PD tag, and a third permanent node ID to the field device.

16. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 15, comprising instructions configured to determine if the second permanent node ID is available;

if the second permanent node ID is available, then assigning the second PD tag to the field device and skipping the assigning of the temporary node ID, the third PD tag, and the third permanent node ID to the field device.

17. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the mismatched state comprises a physical device PD tag assigned to the field device, a permanent node ID assigned to the field device, and wherein no node address has been assigned to the field device.