Methods and structure for batch processing event history processing and viewing

US7249356B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Grant Wilson · Austin, US
• David L. Dietz · Austin, US
• Marc Webb · Orange, US
• Roy Faltesek · Round Rock, US
• Muwaffa Lahham · San Francisco, US
• John Yiu-Chung Wong · Anaheim, US
• Jake Phong Doan · Laguna Hills, US
• Robert B. Havekost · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 29, 1999
• Grant date: Jul 24, 2007
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A batch event historian gathers, stores and presents data regarding a batch process where relationships among the various elements of data are automatically derived by an executive program. A persistent store includes structure corresponding to the relationships defined among procedural elements and equipment in accordance with batch processing industry S88.01 standards. The executive program gathers event information generated by the batch process and derives the relationships among the events in accordance with these industry standard models. Storage and corresponding retrieval and presentation of such historical data is thereby simplified for a user because the user need not manually configure the historian programs to derive the relationships. Association of any continuous data log with event information is automated thereby obviating the need for manual configuration by a user to establish such associations.