Integrated navigational tree importation and generation in a process plant

US8935298B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Evren Eryurek · Edina, US
• Scott N. Hokeness · Lakeville, US
• Stuart Harris · Minneapolis, US
• Steven R. Dillon · White Bear Lake, US
• Greg Rome · Woodbury, US
• Jon Westbrock · Rosemount, US
• Kadir Kavaklioglu · Edina, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 26, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/36121
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A process plant data collection and organization system uses a common or integrated navigational tree structure to organize and enable a user to view and access information obtained from different applications or data sources within a process plant, even when those different applications have different manners of organizing or enabling users thereof to view the collected information. The integrated navigational tree may be developed from and may use the navigational tree categories of the different applications or may map the data within different categories of the navigational trees of the different applications into categories within the integrated navigational tree. The integrated navigational tree enables a user to view and access plant data collected or developed by different applications within the process plant in a single place and in an organized manner so that the user can view data related to the plant from a higher point of view than provided by any of the individual applications.