Systems and methods to provide customized release notes during a software system upgrade of a process control system

摘要

A customized documentation generation apparatus that generates documents relevant to a software update/ upgrade of a particular process control system comprises:a notes instrumentation module which instruments general release notes for at least one of an update or an upgrade of a process control system to correlate the release notes with a general process control system configuration to produce instrumented notes;an upgrade assessment module which determines configuration information for a particular process control system to provide default filter settings; anda filter which applies the default filter settings for the particular process control system to the instrumented notes to filter the instrumented notes and produce custom release notes for the particular process control system. The custom release notes are provided to a user to alert the user regarding potential effects of the update/upgrade on the particular process control system.