Method and apparatus for managing process control configuration

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9501208
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14048496

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Flexible configuration of process control systems or plants allows draft changes or modifications to be made to parent process objects, e.g., in a configuration environment, without automatically triggering corresponding instantiations and/or downloads of the parent process objects and/or their derived children objects into a run-time system. Parent objects to which draft changes are allowed may include class objects, instance objects, and/or library objects. One or more modifications to a process object may be saved as a draft, and multiple drafts for a same process object may be saved as different versions. Children objects may indicate the particular version of a parent object draft from which they are derived. A user may indicate that a particular draft or version is to be published or approved. Unpublished or unapproved drafts are prevented from being instantiated in the run-time system, whereas published or approved drafts are allowed to be instantiated.

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  • FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jundt, Larry O Round Rock, US 48 3362
Lewis, Marty James Cedar Park, US 5 124
Lucas, J Michael Leicester, GB 25 1670

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