Method for providing a list of equipment elements in industrial plants

US11774941B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ABB Schweiz AG · CH

Inventors

• Hadil Abukwaik · Weinheim, DE
• Jens Doppelhamer · Ladenburg, DE
• Marcel Dix · Mannheim, DE
• Benjamin Kloepper · Mannheim, DE
• Pablo Rodriguez · Ilvesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2022
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2023
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/31057
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method provides an impact list of affecting equipment elements that affect an industrial sub-process. The method comprises the steps of selecting, in a topology model, the sub-process, wherein the sub-process is an equipment element that is a part of an industrial plant or process, and wherein the topology model is a graph, whose nodes represent equipment elements and whose edges represent interconnections between the equipment elements; traversing the nodes of the topology model, wherein the traversing starts from the selected sub-process and uses a traversing strategy; and for each of the at least one equipment elements, if the equipment element affects the industrial sub-process by an affecting degree greater than a first predefined affecting degree, adding the equipment element to the impact list of affecting equipment elements.