Christopher Cho

US Patent:

20210341907, Nov 4, 2021

Filed:

Apr 29, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/861567

Inventors:

- Round Rock TX, US
Aaron C. Jones - Austin TX, US
Christopher Cho - Round Rock TX, US

International Classification:

G05B 19/418
G06F 13/20

Abstract:

An Ethernet I/O card (EIOC) scanner device facilitates configuration of a process control system to enable improved integration of EIOC-enabled field devices (and associated field device variables) into the process control system. Specifically, the EIOC scanner may: (i) analyze decoder files for EIOC-enabled field devices to automatically identify field device variables that the EIOC-enabled field devices are configured to transmit or receive; and (ii) quickly and easily facilitate a configuration of the process control system to integrate into the process control system the EIOC-enabled field devices and any associated field device variables identified by the EIOC scanner.