A service orientated framework for communicating with devices in a process control system

摘要

A service oriented framework for communicating with devices in a process control system is disclosed. An example method to communicate with a device in a process control system disclosed herein comprises invoking a service to communicate with the device in the process control system, the service having a generic interface that is independent of a process control network protocol used to implement the process control system, translating the service into one or more network operations to implement the service, the network operations being specific to the process control network protocol used to implement the process control system, and using a network interface specific to the process control network protocol used to implement the process control system to communicate with the device in accordance with the one or more network operations.