Configuration in process plant using I/O abstract field device configuration

• Main Authors: PETERSON NEIL J, DIAZ SERGIO, STRINDEN DANIEL R, NAIDOO JULIAN K, BURR KENT A, COLCLAZIER DEBORAH R, JUNDT LARRY O, LAW GARY K, UY CRISTOPHER IAN SARMIENTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 14.06.2022
• Subjects: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING

An I/O abstract configuration is defined for field devices that have not been assigned or allocated to communicate via a particular I/O device or I/O network within the plant, and this configuration is stored in a device placeholder object in the back-end environment of the plant. Thereafter, other objects, modules, applications, user interfaces, etc. that are to be executed in the back-end environment of the plant to communicate with the field device during online operation of the plant may be designed, constructed, configured, and tested using the device placeholder objects without requiring any actual communication with the field device, and there is no need to assign the device placeholder object to a particular I/O channel or I/O network. A debugging system that can create and store one or more device placeholder objects in a database within a back-end environment of a plant includes an execution engine that executes one or more other back-end environment objects for debugging and testing, the communicat