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7620464 |
Method for operating a process plant, process plant and computer program product
A method for operating a process plant, in which at the process level a number of items of alarm information are generated to display improper operating procedures of the process plant, has
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7610213 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring progress of customer generated trouble tickets
An alerting system is provided for proactively ensuring awareness of pending trouble tickets which have not been resolved for at least a predetermined time duration corresponding to an escalation...
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7584035 |
Method for monitoring the performance reliability of a control unit and diagnostic device
The present arrangement provides a method for monitoring the performance reliability of a control unit and/or at least one sensor of a safety device for the protection of vehicle occupants,...
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7562135 |
Enhanced fieldbus device alerts in a process control system
Enhanced Fieldbus device alerts enable Fieldbus devices within a process control system to report alarm or alert conditions that are detected within the devices to a system user or operator using a...
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7457675 |
External status asset monitor
The present invention is directed to a system and method of monitoring assets of an enterprise using a stand-alone software system and a process automation software system. The stand-alone software...
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7454256 |
NC device
An NC device includes an accumulation portion for accumulating a report-item corresponding to a report-requiring situation that occurs in a machine. A voice generator control section of the device...
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7437199 |
Method for data pre-population
A method of using an APC system to perform a data pre-population function is described in which the APC system is coupled to a processing element. The APC system comprises an APC computer including...
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7392165 |
Simulation system for multi-node process control systems
A simulation system attaches to a configuration database for one or more fully configured nodes of a process control system and copies the modules within those nodes into one or more simulation...
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7392100 |
System and methodology that facilitate factory automation services in a distributed industrial automation environment
The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing automation services in a distributed industrial controller environment. In one aspect of the present invention, a data access...
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7353074 |
Production loss tracking system
A production loss tracking system for a manufacturing system includes a collection module, an event module, and a report module. The collection module collects a processing status from a plurality...
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7345580 |
Alarm management system
The present invention relates to an alarm management system for acquiring message data for alarms issued from a process and analyzing alarm behaviors. The alarm management system of the present...
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7280048 |
Process control loop current verification
A process device is configured for coupling to a two wire process control loop. Loop current output circuitry is configured to apply an output current to the two wire process control loop. Loop...
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7272451 |
Programmable logic controller programming system
A programming system includes a graphical data entry user interface for a plurality of sequential steps displayed to a user on a monitor. The user selects outputs to be activated for each of the...
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7260446 |
Temperature protection method for machine tool
A method of protecting a rotating device, loaded by temperature of a machine tool with one temperature sensor on that device and a temperature bloc, comprising the steps of inputting specific...
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7250855 |
False alarm mitigation using a sensor network
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing, at a sensor node within a sensor network, a set of sensor readings to determine whether an event has occurred, the set of...
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7206645 |
Mobile, unitary, wall-plugged, temperature and/or power monitoring and warning system for critical spaces
A system comprising a housing, an electrical bus, a connector module for connecting the electrical bus to a power source, a battery module so as to provide power to the electrical bus when the...
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7187988 |
Web service and method for customers to define their own alert for real-time production status
An automated method and system that uses a Web service to make real-time production status available to customers from a manufacturing environment. Each time Work in Process (WIP) data is updated...
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7185085 |
On-line web traffic sampling
A method for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site first comprises storing a web page on a first server coupled to a network. When the web page is requested from a visitor computer,...
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7181654 |
System and method for detecting an abnormal situation associated with a reactor
A system for detecting abnormal situations associated with a reactor in a process plant receives statistical data associated with pressure within a reactor vessel. For example, a pressure sensor...
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7162534 |
Transactional data communications for process control systems
A transactional data communications system and method communicates information within an enterprise having a process control system and a plurality of information technology systems that are...
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7133727 |
System and method for continuous online safety and reliability monitoring
A system and method for continuous online safety and reliability monitoring is disclosed. The method includes the steps of obtaining operating information about at least one of a plurality of...
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7130709 |
Manufacturing information and alarming system and method
Systems and methods for providing alarming indications and troubleshooting indications and actions in connection with a web converting manufacturing process such as that used for manufacturing...
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7130703 |
Voter logic block including operational and maintenance overrides in a process control system
A voter function block, which can be integrated into a function block diagram programming environment in a process plant control or safety system, implements voter logic in conjunction with...
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7120505 |
Safety network system, safety slave, and safety controller
A safety network system is constructed by connecting a safety PLC to a safety slave through a safety network. The safety slave obtains safety input informations from a plurality of safety devices...
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7117043 |
Method for programming a programmable logic controller
A method for programming a programmable logic controller (PLC) is disclosed. The PLC may be used to control devices of a secured facility, such as a detention center, jail, or prison. The disclosed...
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7113085 |
Enhanced device alarms in a process control system
An alarm display and interface system method for use in a process control system enhances device alarm messages to enable the integrated display device alarms with process alarms. The system and...
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7099730 |
Terminal table unit
A terminal table unit is associated with an output apparatus such as valves and solenoids and an input apparatus such as switches and includes not only a main body with a control device and a...
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7096074 |
Methods and apparatus for early fault detection and alert generation in a process
A method and apparatus for providing early fault detection and alert generation in a multi-parameter process is provided. The method comprises defining a multi-dimensional space, each dimension...
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7089066 |
Distributed control systems and methods
Distributed control systems and methods. An embodiment of distributed control system may comprise at least first and second nodes operatively associated with one another, the first node issuing a...
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7085625 |
Control system for baling machine
A control system for a bulk material baler embodied in a machine readable data structure and including an instruction to a moveable guide track to move from a removed position to a closed position...
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7069106 |
Sequence circuit display method of injection molding machine
A sequence circuit display method for an injection molding machine which enables a sequence circuit corresponding to an operating step to be quickly displayed and enables the connection states of...
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7069090 |
Systems and methods for providing variable output feedback to a user of a household appliance
An embodiment of the present invention uses an on-board microcontroller of a household appliance to receive signals from a directionless encoder attached to a knob for receiving user input and...
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7039474 |
Packaging system and method therefor
A system for monitoring the condition of a packaging machine during operation and diagnosing potential problems in the performance of the machine. The system comprises an input device, an output...
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7010376 |
Diagnostic for poorly tuned control loops
A method and apparatus to perform an automatic diagnosis for the poor performance of a control loop, and to determine whether or not the malfunctioning is caused principally by a poor adjustment of...
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7006880 |
Method for controlling a device with a control system
A method for controlling at least one device ( 12 ) with a control system ( 10 ). The devices ( 12 ) can provide input signals ( 16 ) to the control system ( 10 ), receive output signals ( 14 )...
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7003366 |
Diagnostic system and operating method for the same
An operating method for a fault detection of a semiconductor process and a diagnostic system for fault detection in a semiconductor process are described. By using the method and the diagnostic...
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6999823 |
Power shut-off method for injection molding machine
Even when a power switch is turned off, the controller of an injection molding machine does not shut off a power supply immediately. The controller determines whether the present state of the...
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6996442 |
Systems and methods for detecting impending faults within closed-loop control systems
An impending fault of a component operated within a closed-loop control system can be detected. The close-loop control system is disabled. An actuator of the closed-loop control system is operated...
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6990411 |
Controlling chemical dispense operations based on conductivity offset considerations
A system and method is disclosed for controlling concentration of a component chemical product in a chemical solution. The chemical solution is formed in a solution tank by combining the component...
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6978286 |
Handheld medication dosage calculator
A handheld medication dosage calculator ( 100 ) and method for comparing an inputted, ordered medication dosage with a known medication dosage range in a database including an input device for...
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6961763 |
Automation system for controlling and monitoring devices and sensors
An architecture for an automation system is disclosed that includes look-up services, a soft-state store, and a publication/subscription eventing component. The look-up services maintain a database...
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6934955 |
Event notification within a local system
An event notification system is described. The system comprises a computer having a CPU and memory and which executes an operating system operative to manage computer programs and wherein the...
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6928337 |
Robot simulation apparatus
A computer is connected to a system formed by combining a robot with a peripheral device (such as a welder). The computer receives robot mechanical unit motion position information supplied from a...
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6925335 |
Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies
An apparatus and system are disclosed for the real-time monitoring and control of field assets. The monitoring device, operable to couple to a field asset, may be designed to leverage one or more...
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6915173 |
Advance failure prediction
Failure prediction for complex processes is performed utilizing one or more nonlinear regression models to relate operational variable values measured at two or more times to predicted process...
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6909923 |
Safety communication on a single backplane
Safety level error detection comparable to that provided by redundant wired safety relays is obtained on a backplane of a programmable logic controller or the like by a combination of error...
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6898474 |
Method and system for creating and managing engineered time standards
According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for managing time standards includes receiving a set of work instructions associated with the manufacturing of a part and...
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6892143 |
Controlling chemical dispense operations based on conductivity offset
A system and method is disclosed for controlling chemical dispense operations based on a conductivity offset determined for a chemical solution. The chemical dispense operations are performed by or...
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6892107 |
Plant control monitor
An object of the present invention is to quickly and accurately detect disorder or abnormality of a process state which occurs in a plant and to appropriately perform an operation for normalizing...
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6885897 |
Module for controlling a drive and method of using the module
A module for controlling a drive is described. The module contains a terminal for connecting to a control system for operating tasks and a control system for safety tasks. Commands from the control...
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