Determining device system tags for commissioning portions of a disconnected process control loop

US10528037B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Larry O. Jundt · Round Rock, US
• Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy · Manila, PH
• Deborah R. Colclazier · Round Rock, US
• Sergio Diaz · Pflugerville, US
• Gary K. Law · Georgetown, US
• Julian K. Naidoo · Cedar Park, US
• Daniel R. Strinden · Austin, US
• Kent A. Burr · Round Rock, US
• Neil J. Peterson · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 2016
• Grant date: Jan 7, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system tag identifying a device of a process control loop is determined/derived from a unique identifier of the device while the loop is communicatively disconnected from a process plant's back-end environment or control room. The system tag may be stored at the device itself or at a proxy that is disposed in the field of the process plant (e.g., at another component of the loop). One or more commissioning activities that include the device are performed in the field using the device's system tag, and at least some of the field commissioning activities may be automatically triggered based on the derivation of system tag. Upon the loop being communicatively connected to the back-end environment of the plant, the device's system tag known to the loop in the field is synchronized with the device's system tag known to the back-end of the process plant.