ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING AND CONFIGURATION FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL AND MONITORING SYSTEMS

• Main Authors: Nixon, Mark J, Dakoju, Sireesha, Ubach, Antonio, Doraiswamy, Narayanan, Joshi, Krishna, Hernandez, Sean
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.07.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

An enterprise engineering and configuration system includes a common configuration database and support services stored in and executed in a compute fabric of an enterprise. The configuration database and support services use and implement a common configuration data schema to support the configuration of hardware and software in the compute fabric and at multiple different sites or physical locations of the enterprise even when different control and automation systems are used at these different sites or physical locations. The configuration system enables implementing hardware or software configuration changes to various different sites or locations of an enterprise either centrally from a configuration device connected directly to the compute fabric of the enterprise or locally from any physical location or site of the enterprise, while maintaining a single integrated enterprise configuration database that stores configuration data for each of the multiple sites of the enterprise. This configuration system is flexible as it enables engineering and configuration changes to be made by users anywhere in the enterprise for any of the sites of the enterprise and across different sites of the enterprise.