WO2007123753A2 - Digital data processing apparatus and methods for improving plant performance - Google Patents
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- the invention pertains to digital data processing and, more particularly, to improved methods and apparatus for integration of internet search technologies
- the invention has application, by way of non-limiting example, in improving the performance and management of manufacturing (and other) plants whose operations are reflected by real-time automation data.
- An object of this invention is to provide improved methods and apparatus for digital data processing
- a further object is to provide such methods and apparatus as are adapted for improving the performance of manufacturing (and other) plants with real-time automation data.
- a still yet further object of the invention is to provide such methods and apparatus as can be adapted for use with existing and future automation and web technologies.
- HMI human machine interface
- aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus as permit users to search and/or view such real-time automation data concurrently with such Internet web pages. Further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus as permit users to search and/or view such real-time automation data concurrently with business data maintained on an enterprise network (e.g., a LAN, WAN or otherwise).
- an enterprise network e.g., a LAN, WAN or otherwise.
- the invention provides, in other aspects, such methods and apparatus which utilizes "web crawler" search engine technology to collect real-time automation data for such searching and/or viewing by users.
- Related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which that web crawler search engine technology also searches and indexes pages on the Internet and/or enterprise network.
- Still other aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus which utilize a web browser as an interface via which users search and/or view real-time process automation data, as well as web pages and/or business data on the enterprise network.
- Yet still other aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus which transfer real-time process automation data from a repository of plant automation data to the web crawler for indexing and use in resolving user queries.
- Related aspects provide such methods and apparatus which transfer field device tool (FDT) data and object linking and embedding for process control (OPC) data to the web crawler for such indexing and use.
- FDT field device tool
- OPC object linking and embedding for process control
- Further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which such transfers are effected by presenting the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data to the web crawler as if that data were web pages with related attributes.
- Related aspects of the invention provide such methods in which such data is presented to the web crawler with metadata of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value in place of conventional web page file metadata (e.g., size, author, date created, key words).
- Still further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which the foregoing transfers are effected by an interface that updates the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data indexed by the web crawler as change driven data.
- Related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which the index is updated based either on scheduling or on demand by an application programming interface (API).
- API application programming interface
- the invention provides methods and apparatus as described above in which policies that direct how the web crawler behaves are controlled such that it can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with process state, alarm conditions or events.
- Figure 1 depicts an architecture of a system according to the invention, along with an environment in which it operates;
- Figure 2 is a more detailed view of the system of Figure 1;
- Figures 3 - 5 depict displays generated by a human machine interface according to the invention.
- Figure 6 illustrates a multi-tier architecture using web server front-ends, application servers running the query servers being fed by an indexing server which crawls database and web service content;
- Figure 7 provides a detailed view of a search service internal architecture
- Figure 8 is a high-level architecture diagram of a business data catalog showing the interaction between business data sources, the metadata database, and business data features and solutions;
- Figure 9 shows a low-level architecture of a business data catalog, including the interaction between the metadata database and the runtime and administration object models.
- a very important issue is that the information contained on Internet web sites is essentially unstructured text data with minimal encoded semantic information in the form of metadata (e.g. data about data).
- Google is essentially a gigantic information cache which is updated infrequently at irregular intervals. For static information that doesn't change often, this isn't a big issue. Old data is usually better than no data. For dynamic information that does change, this highly non-deterministic behavior results in a lot of stale, invalid data.
- LOB enterprise line-of-business
- ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
- a manufacturing enterprise has additional information that resides within systems that are directly involved with process manufacturing execution, asset management and process automation. Some of these data are relatively static such as configuration information and some are highly dynamic such as information directly related to manufacturing processes. From a user perspective, there also appears to be an "inverse-square law" associated with manufacturing information. Simply stated, the further a user is away from an information source, the less that user understands the information source and its context. The casual user often does not have access to the fine-grained information that power users have because of high-cost license fees or special training requirements.
- Google® provides application program interfaces (APIs) that permit tailoring of responses to search engine requests and, specifically, that permit creation, editing, deletion, viewing and updating of stored data in the form of Google data API (“GData”) feeds, as well as that permit control over how search results are requested and presented to end users.
- APIs application program interfaces
- GData Google data API
- These and other APIs include but not limited to the Google Data APIs, Google Base Data API, Google Search Appliance APIs) are described and publicly available at http:// code.google.com/apis.html and are incorporated herein by reference,
- Microsoft® has developed products to provide easy and fast access to correlated information that resides in this distributed heterogeneous collection of repositories. These technologies are encapsulated within Microsoft Enterprise Search, the next generation platform of indexing and query technology. This technology is common across both server and desktop platforms including Vista and XP Desktop Search as well as the upcoming Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007.
- Microsoft Enterprise Search is Microsoft's next generation platform of indexing and query technology. This technology is common across both server and desktop platforms including Vista and XP Desktop Search as well as the upcoming Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (e.g. MOSS).
- MOSS Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
- Figure 1 depicts an architecture of a system according to the invention, along with an environment in which it operates. Together, these include a plant or other automation system (labeled "Plant,” by way of non-limiting example) that generates real-time automation data, enterprise data system (labeled, "Enterprise,” by way of non-limiting example) that generates/stores enterprise or other business data, and a search appliance. Both the automation system and enterprise data system may be of the type known in the art.
- the search appliance comprises any digital data processing apparatus suitable for operation in accord with the teachings hereof.
- This may be a dedicated digital data processing device (such as a workstation or minicomputer) or it may represent functionality executed, along with one or more other applications, on a workstation, minicomputer or other digital data processing apparatus.
- a dedicated digital data processing device such as a workstation or minicomputer
- it may represent functionality executed, along with one or more other applications, on a workstation, minicomputer or other digital data processing apparatus.
- the search appliance comprises a human machine interface (HMI) and an automation data/crawler interface, both of which are coupled to an data repository that forms part of the automation system and/or otherwise serves as a repository for data therefrom.
- HMI human machine interface
- automation data/crawler interface both of which are coupled to an data repository that forms part of the automation system and/or otherwise serves as a repository for data therefrom.
- the human machine interface of the illustrated embodiment comprises a digital data processing apparatus (e.g., personal computer, workstation, personal digital assistant, or otherwise) that executes a conventional (or other) web "browser," the operation of which is adapted in accord with the teachings hereof, to permit users to search and/or view real-time automation data in a manner similar to that with which they search and/or view conventional web pages on the Internet and/or within the enterprise (e.g., on the enterprise network).
- a digital data processing apparatus e.g., personal computer, workstation, personal digital assistant, or otherwise
- a conventional (or other) web "browser” the operation of which is adapted in accord with the teachings hereof, to permit users to search and/or view real-time automation data in a manner similar to that with which they search and/or view conventional web pages on the Internet and/or within the enterprise (e.g., on the enterprise network).
- the automation data repository forms part of the ArchestrA ® manufacturing process control system commercially available from the assignee hereof, though in other embodiments it represents such repositories for storing data from other automation systems. .
- the search appliance further includes a conventional web crawler search engine, whose operation is utilized and/or adapted in accord with the teachings hereof.
- search engines operate on the basic concept of scanning or "crawling" a directed graph of nodes. At each node encountered, the Search Engine retrieves and indexes the data content discovered at that node. Nodes are identified by URL such as http://MyDomain/ MySite.coms. In the first illustrated embodiment, this is a crawler based on the Google ® search engine, the application program interface (API) of which is publicly available from the company by that same name. Other embodiments may utilize other crawler and/or search engine technology known in the art — again, as adapted in accord with the teachings hereof.
- API application program interface
- That Google ® API contemplates a large number of file types and database access routines.
- the illustrated embodiment utilizes an interface (see Figure 2) to that API (and, therefore, to the web crawler) that provides dynamic automation data in a dynamically updating table.
- That interface additionally dynamically reconfigures the behavior of the search engine to re-index (re-search) the dynamic data based on a unique combination of prioritization, scheduling, on demand or by exception algorithms.
- unique aspects of this design include, among others:
- a request by the user via the HMI) for a process variable (or other process attribute) is met with a unified display showing results for the dynamically updating variable (or attribute), its historical values and it current configuration parameters.
- a search on "brown sugar” would result in recipes, suppliers, markets, where and how brown sugar is being used in the process yesterday, today or tomorrow (as reflected in real-time automation data from the Plant).
- relevance is a function of the user and is managed by the actual user's behavior.
- This user interface provides prioritized data based on any number of configuration parameters, e.g., Alarm, value, cost, critically, etc.
- Prioritized search engines that can communicate with each other and supervisory applications providing a unique mix of real time and historical date allowing new degrees of placing information within context. This allows multiple data feeds to be integrated and examined by other data modeling packages (e.g., such as those commercially available from the SimSci-Esscor of the assignee hereof) to determine trends and make prognostic decisions, useful for process optimization, asset management, maintenance, safety, supply chain, and plant security.
- SimSci-Esscor of the assignee hereof
- Figure 2 is a more detailed view of the system of Figure 1, showing inter alia automation data/web crawler interface as including three interfaces (labeled, (1), (2) and (3)) and managed by functionality referred to herein, for sake of convenience and without limitation, as "InReality.”
- the normal output of a crawler is to download web pages, extract links, make determinations as to where to go next and pass the pages off to a search engine that will index them for retrieval.
- the index contains meta-data on the page as well as pages themselves, in a cache.
- the crawler is constantly updating the index while users are requesting searches from the search engine that first relies on the index for the requested data.
- the first interface is between the InReality application and the Plant's real time data.
- Four "sub-" interfaces are shown, though, other embodiments may have greater or fewer.
- the first such sub-interface is between the Plant's control (or automation) system and the InReality application.
- this interface is the ArchestrA based global data repository and is supplemented by an interface that uses OPC data and FDT data. Together, these allow real time data to be made available to enterprise applications.
- the other three sub-interfaces are between the InReality application and the Plant's real-time security system, it's real-time maintenance management system, and it's real-time asset-tracking system — all, by way of example. These sub-interfaces are supported by the ArchestraA, by the corresponding plant system themselves, and/or otherwise.
- the second interface is between the InReality application and the indexed data created by the crawler.
- this is the index that the search engine goes to first, looking to resolve the users query.
- Such an interface can be adapted to any commercial (or otherwise known) search engine, that allows real time process data to be viewed as if it were an indexed web page with related attributes.
- the metadata of the file (size, author, date created, key words), is replaced (by way of example) with the metadata of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value.
- This 'index' interface is updated by the control system as change driven data from the control system. Additionally, there are mechanisms to update the index based either on scheduling or on demand by an application programming interface (API).
- API application programming interface
- the third interface is between the existing web crawler and the InReality application. All crawlers have their own unique methods of directing how the crawler behaves. These methods are known as policies and address how the crawler determines where to go next.
- the interface driven by the InReality application and its configuration will control the crawler such that it can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with process state, alarm conditions or events.
- HMI human machine interface
- Typical Users users utilizing the human machine interface (HMI) of the illustrated embodiment (depicted here, by way of non-limiting example, as the workstations labeled "Typical Users") post search queries to a web browser (or other) application executing thereon.
- a web browser or other application executing thereon.
- Those queries are applied by the search engine against the aforementioned index (e.g., as more fully shown in the drawing) in
- Figures 3 - 5 depict the presentation of such an HMI in a system according to the invention.
- Figure 3 depicts a three-column presentation generated in response to a user query for "PumplOl".
- the two leftmost columns contain display elements that include links and other information from pages retrieved from the web in the conventional manner known in the art.
- the rightmost column contains display elements that include real-time graphical displays of automation data from that equipment in the automation system (i.e., the "Plant") associated with the tag "PumplOl.”
- Figure 4 shows a similar such presentation, albeit wherein the rightmost column displays additional graphical automation data from PumplOl.
- the display elements generated by the HMI need not be static but, rather, may be interactive — e.g., as in the case of (i) links that respond to user selection by effecting display of web pages that are targeted by the links, and (ii) real-time graphical displays of automaton data that can dynamically convey changing information. It will be appreciated that the foregoing are just examples of the types of information conveyed by the display elements (static, dynamic, or otherwise).
- a user or system administrator may configure the HMI for presentation of the displays of Figures 3 and 4, among others, utilizing a preference panel, not shown.
- preferences can permit, by way of non-limiting example, selection of specific graphical display panels, as well as specification of types and/or subsets of automation data to be searched.
- Figure 5 depicts a presentation of the type generated by the HMI wherein the rightmost column (by way of example) includes links to — rather than real-time graphical displays based on — automation data from plants, equipment, alarms, historians, and other aspects of the Plant associated with the query term (in this case, for the term "Pump").
- Such links can be presented, in addition to or in lieu of graphical displays (e.g., of Figures 3 - 4) where multiple data streams are associated with a given search and/or " where so selected by the preferences panel.
- the search box of the illustrated browser is supplemented with a "Search Internet” button, in addition to the conventional "Search Web” button.
- Use of the former permits the user to specifically limit his or her search to real-time automation data and, optionally, other information on the enterprise network (e.g., as determined by the aforementioned preferences panel). Use of the latter combines both a search of the web and of the real-time automation data (and, optionally, other information on the enterprise network).
- the search box are domain-specific search limiters. Those for web are conventional, e.g., "images,” “groups,” “news” and so forth. Those for the intranet are unique to the illustrated embodiment. In the illustrated embodiment, these are for categories of real-time data, such as, plants, equipment, alarms, historians, and so forth. Other embodiments may use other categories. Regardless, for each of the categories, the HMI can additionally include a graphical component (such as, by way of non-limiting example, a bar graph) reflecting a number of search "hits" per category.
- a graphical component such as, by way of non-limiting example, a bar graph reflecting a number of search "hits" per category.
- WebContentSource Includes any Web content
- LotusNotesContentSource Includes all Lotus Notes content Not configured by default These content sources define what type of information will be crawled and indexed. Scopes can be defined that limit queries to a subset of data contained within the indexed content of a Sharepoint Server.
- the system uses a pull-based model, not a push-model. This can limit scalability and performance with respect to refresh latencies.
- an incremental crawling technique implemented within the Microsoft technology allows more efficient and therefore shorter crawl cycles to be used.
- latencies of 10-15 minutes may be achievable. While this may not be considered "real-time" data, it falls well within the timing requirements of configuration metadata as well as hour-average process data. Access to real-time process data is handled through standard API mechanisms once a tag reference of interest has been identified through query.
- a push-model based on incremental, change-driven eventing, as may be implemented in connection with future versions of Microsoft Search, is beneficial in reducing data update latencies.
- the relative ranking of information returned from a query is controlled by link analysis but can also be affected by tuning property weights and query weights.
- Crawled Properties are discovered from the crawled content and Managed Properties are defined by an administrator. A mapping is then defined that associates these two properties for purposes of query and display.
- Properties have names and may be single valued or multi-valued. In addition, property access is intended to be read-only. If update is required, then business objects should be used to control access and provide validation.
- Figure 6 illustrates a typical multi-tier architecture using web server front-ends, application servers running the query servers being fed by an indexing server which crawls database and web service content
- Figure 7 provides a detailed view of the Search service internal architecture.
- Index Engine Processes the chunks of text and properties filtered from content sources, storing them in the content index and property store.
- Protocol Handlers Opens content sources in their native protocols and exposes documents and other items to be filtered.
- Content Index Stores information about words and their location in a content item.
- Property Store Stores a table of properties and associated values.
- Search Configuration Data Stores information used by the Search service, including crawl configuration, property schema, scopes, and so on.
- Wordbreakers Used by the query and index engines to break compound words and phrases into individual words or tokens.
- CustomContentSource Used to create custom content source. These content sources require the development of COM objects that implement the ISearchProtocol, IUrlAccessor and IFilter interfaces. These objects can be built using either native or managed .NET code but only native objects using ATL have been built to date.
- the Business Data Content Source This special content source is supplied as part of the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Enterprise (e.g. MOSS Enterprise).
- the Business Data Catalog (e.g. BDC) acts as an adapter for access to ADO.NET data sources (e.g. SQLServer) and Web Services. Data returned by the ADO.NET or Web Service may be in the form of XML or a .NET Dataset. If information is accessible using either of these techniques, then the BDC provides a very attractive integration mechanism. Information residing in the BDC is maintained and queried as a list of properties. These properties are defined using an XML file which could be generated programmatically.
- Business Data Catalog comprises a metadata database and an object model that provides a simple, consistent, object-oriented programming interface for business logic that lives in the various business applications.
- Figure 8 is a high-level architecture diagram of Business Data Catalog showing the interaction between business data sources, the metadata database, and business data features and solutions.
- Figure 9 shows the low-level architecture of Business Data Catalog, including the interaction between the metadata database and the Runtime and Administration object models.
- control system configuration database Information contained within the control system configuration database is crawled and indexed using an appropriate technique such as:
- the user can query and navigate the indexed documents, as desired, using standard Sharepoint user interface (e.g. UI) tools.
- UI Sharepoint user interface
- a custom UI built using a web part, allows the user to access the manufacturing and control systems applications directly, based upon query results returned. This provides a very utilitarian interface, especially for casual users. As crawler efficiency improves, more and more dynamic process information can be included in the indexed content.
- an enterprise environment in which a system according to the invention operates can include data repositories such as, e.g., equipment databases, manufacturing databases, and batch processing databases, of the type known in the art (as adapted in accord with the teachings hereof).
- data repositories such as, e.g., equipment databases, manufacturing databases, and batch processing databases, of the type known in the art (as adapted in accord with the teachings hereof).
- These databases which can exist in lieu of, or in addition to, the aforementioned ArchestrATM based global data repository discussed above, are merely additional examples of the data repositories with which systems and methods according to the invention operate.
- a user utilizing human machine interface (HMI) methods and apparatus can obtain information regarding a process attribute, such as a process control equipment tag "SClOO" (by way of non-limiting example), by posting a query to a web browser as discussed above.
- a process attribute such as a process control equipment tag "SClOO" (by way of non-limiting example)
- SClOO process control equipment tag
- a query is applied to the search engine in order to generate links to and/or real-time displays from realtime automation data for the enterprise, as well as links to web pages internal to the enterprise (including, for example, pages conveying information from the aforementioned equipment, manufacturing, and batch processing databases) and to web pages on the Internet.
- links and/or other information pertaining to the enterprise can be obtained via interface(s) of the type described above, e.g., to the search engine API, that provide dynamic automation data in a dynamically updating table.
- links and/or other information can be obtained via use of Microsoft Enterprise Search (or related technologies) in enterprises whose infrastructures are so suited.
- methods and apparatus constructed in accord with the teachings hereof identify and aggregate, e.g., via display on the user's browser, the aforementioned links and other information regarding the requested process attribute (here, tag "SClOO”) — regardless of whether it is contained in a single enterprise database or distributed throughout several non-integrated or disconnected databases.
Abstract
The invention provides, in one aspect, human machine interface (HMI) methods and apparatus that permit users to search and/or view plant and other real-time process automation data in a manner similar to that with which they search and/or view pages on the Internet (web) Related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus as permit users to search and/or view such real-time process automation data concurrently with such Internet web pages. Further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus as permit users to search and/or view such real-time process automation data concurrently with business data maintained in pages on an enterprise network (e.g., a LAN, WAN or otherwise).
Description
Digital Data Processing Apparatus and Methods for Improving Plant Performance
Reference to Related Application
This application claims the benefit of priority of United States Provisional Patent Application Serial Nos. 60/788,373, filed March 30, 2006 (entitled "Improved Digital Data Processing Apparatus and Methods for Improving Plant Performance") and 60/856,572, filed November 3, 2006 (entitled "Further Improved Digital Data Processing Apparatus and Methods for Improving Plant Performance"), the teachings of both of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Background of the Invention
The invention pertains to digital data processing and, more particularly, to improved methods and apparatus for integration of internet search technologies The invention has application, by way of non-limiting example, in improving the performance and management of manufacturing (and other) plants whose operations are reflected by real-time automation data.
Today's manufacturing plants and other automation facilities have a wealth of data represented as files, databases and real time automation data Systems exist to manage this information, but it has traditionally been viewed in two highly separated worlds, the world of enterprise or business systems and the world of control or process automation systems. In fact there is another dichotomy of data — that which is real time (dynamic) and that which is recorded (static) — generally file-based or database structured.
The prior art includes U.S. Patent Application Publication US2002/0067370, entitled "Extensible Manufacturing/Process Control Information Portal Server," assigned to the assignee hereof, the teachings of which are incorporated herein by reference
An object of this invention is to provide improved methods and apparatus for digital data processing
A further object is to provide such methods and apparatus as are adapted for improving the performance of manufacturing (and other) plants with real-time automation data.
A still yet further object of the invention is to provide such methods and apparatus as can be adapted for use with existing and future automation and web technologies.
Summary of the Invention
The foregoing objects are attained by the invention which provides, in one aspect, human machine interface (HMI) methods and apparatus that permit users to search and/or view plant and other real-time automation data in a manner similar to that with which they search and/or view pages on the Internet (web).
Related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus as permit users to search and/or view such real-time automation data concurrently with such Internet web pages. Further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus as permit users to search and/or view such real-time automation data concurrently with business data maintained on an enterprise network (e.g., a LAN, WAN or otherwise).
The invention provides, in other aspects, such methods and apparatus which utilizes "web crawler" search engine technology to collect real-time automation data for such searching and/or viewing by users. Related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which that web crawler search engine technology also searches and indexes pages on the Internet and/or enterprise network.
Still other aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus which utilize a web browser as an interface via which users search and/or view real-time process automation data, as well as web pages and/or business data on the enterprise network.
Yet still other aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus which transfer real-time process automation data from a repository of plant automation data to the web crawler for indexing and use in resolving user queries. Related aspects provide such methods and apparatus which transfer field device tool (FDT) data and object linking and embedding for process control (OPC) data to the web crawler for such indexing and use.
Further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which such transfers are effected by presenting the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data to the web crawler as if that data were web pages with related attributes.
Related aspects of the invention provide such methods in which such data is presented to the web crawler with metadata of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value in place of conventional web page file metadata (e.g., size, author, date created, key words).
Still further related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which the foregoing transfers are effected by an interface that updates the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data indexed by the web crawler as change driven data. Related aspects of the invention provide such methods and apparatus in which the index is updated based either on scheduling or on demand by an application programming interface (API).
In other aspects, the invention provides methods and apparatus as described above in which policies that direct how the web crawler behaves are controlled such that it can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with process state, alarm conditions or events.
These and other aspects of the invention are evident in the drawings and in the description that follows. Advantages of methods and apparatus according to the invention include, among others, that they provide a view of the entire enterprise in reality — real time and historical — allowing users to view any relationship in any context, thereby providing an new and valuable means of better understanding the business of the enterprise.
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Figure 1 depicts an architecture of a system according to the invention, along with an environment in which it operates;
Figure 2 is a more detailed view of the system of Figure 1;
Figures 3 - 5 depict displays generated by a human machine interface according to the invention;
Figure 6 illustrates a multi-tier architecture using web server front-ends, application servers running the query servers being fed by an indexing server which crawls database and web service content;
Figure 7 provides a detailed view of a search service internal architecture;
Figure 8 is a high-level architecture diagram of a business data catalog showing the interaction between business data sources, the metadata database, and business data features and solutions; and
Figure 9 shows a low-level architecture of a business data catalog, including the interaction between the metadata database and the runtime and administration object models.
Detailed Description of the Illustrated Embodiment
Google has forever changed the expectations of people regarding the ease, speed and breadth of information access. By full-text indexing a substantial portion of the Internet's web site content, Google has indeed succeeded in bringing information to the people. A very important issue is that the information contained on Internet web sites is essentially unstructured text data with minimal encoded semantic information in the form of metadata (e.g. data about data). In response, Google created a mechanism for "weighting" information based on the number of links that reference a site's content The more links, the more "important" the site content This concept enables the ability to assign "relevance" to large quantities of essentially unrelated and unstructured information providing easy information mining using simple ad-hoc queries. This ease however comes at a price. Google is essentially a gigantic information cache which is updated infrequently at irregular intervals. For static information that doesn't change often, this isn't a big issue. Old data is usually better than no data. For dynamic information that does change, this highly non-deterministic behavior results in a lot of stale, invalid data.
Within a typical enterprise, information comes in all flavors. A lot of corporate business information is well structured and lives within highly-normalized relational databases attached to enterprise line-of-business (LOB) applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). These applications provide user interface and reporting/querying facilities that broker information that is internally maintained. Other information lives on user desktops in the form of Microsoft Office files such as Excel spreadsheets and Word documents, all by way of non-limiting examples. In between the core enterprise systems and user desktops are files stored on network servers and intranet sites.
A manufacturing enterprise has additional information that resides within systems that are directly involved with process manufacturing execution, asset management and process automation. Some of these data are relatively static such as configuration information and some are highly dynamic such as information directly related to manufacturing processes. From a user perspective, there also appears to be an "inverse-square law" associated with manufacturing information. Simply stated, the further a user is away from an information
source, the less that user understands the information source and its context. The casual user often does not have access to the fine-grained information that power users have because of high-cost license fees or special training requirements.
As an example, when plant mechanical engineering personnel are designing a piece of equipment, they often refer to outdated process specifications. It would be advantageous for them to access actual process data associated with the particular equipment involved. This could be accomplished using a simple equipment query to the portal which would return a list of relevant instrument tagnames. Upon selecting an instrument tagname, the user could navigate to an existing long-term trend report or view historical statistics. Note that information correlation of this type is often not straight-forward due to the fact that equipment databases are normally separate from process databases. An engineer located in a remote corporate engineering office would probably have less "local knowledge" and therefore could benefit even more from simplified search technology. It may not be long before "Googling" will be as important looking into an enterprise as it is today for looking out into the Internet.
Google® provides application program interfaces (APIs) that permit tailoring of responses to search engine requests and, specifically, that permit creation, editing, deletion, viewing and updating of stored data in the form of Google data API ("GData") feeds, as well as that permit control over how search results are requested and presented to end users. These and other APIs (including but not limited to the Google Data APIs, Google Base Data API, Google Search Appliance APIs) are described and publicly available at http:// code.google.com/apis.html and are incorporated herein by reference,
Microsoft® has developed products to provide easy and fast access to correlated information that resides in this distributed heterogeneous collection of repositories. These technologies are encapsulated within Microsoft Enterprise Search, the next generation platform of indexing and query technology. This technology is common across both server and desktop platforms including Vista and XP Desktop Search as well as the upcoming Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. Microsoft Enterprise Search is Microsoft's next generation platform of indexing and query technology. This technology is common across
both server and desktop platforms including Vista and XP Desktop Search as well as the upcoming Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (e.g. MOSS). A further understanding of this technology may be attained by reference to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ and http:// msdn.microsoft.com/ office/server/moss/, the teachings of which are incorporated by reference.
Figure 1 depicts an architecture of a system according to the invention, along with an environment in which it operates. Together, these include a plant or other automation system (labeled "Plant," by way of non-limiting example) that generates real-time automation data, enterprise data system (labeled, "Enterprise," by way of non-limiting example) that generates/stores enterprise or other business data, and a search appliance. Both the automation system and enterprise data system may be of the type known in the art.
The search appliance (so labeled in the drawing) comprises any digital data processing apparatus suitable for operation in accord with the teachings hereof. This may be a dedicated digital data processing device (such as a workstation or minicomputer) or it may represent functionality executed, along with one or more other applications, on a workstation, minicomputer or other digital data processing apparatus. Though shown here directly coupled to the enterprise network — and, thereby, in communications coupling with the enterprise data system and the automation system — in other embodiments it may be so placed in communications coupling by way of one or more other networks, such as the Internet
As further shown in the drawing the search appliance comprises a human machine interface (HMI) and an automation data/crawler interface, both of which are coupled to an data repository that forms part of the automation system and/or otherwise serves as a repository for data therefrom.
The human machine interface of the illustrated embodiment comprises a digital data processing apparatus (e.g., personal computer, workstation, personal digital assistant, or otherwise) that executes a conventional (or other) web "browser," the operation of which is adapted in accord with the teachings hereof, to permit users to search and/or view real-time
automation data in a manner similar to that with which they search and/or view conventional web pages on the Internet and/or within the enterprise (e.g., on the enterprise network).
In the illustrated embodiment, the automation data repository forms part of the ArchestrA® manufacturing process control system commercially available from the assignee hereof, though in other embodiments it represents such repositories for storing data from other automation systems. .
The search appliance further includes a conventional web crawler search engine, whose operation is utilized and/or adapted in accord with the teachings hereof. Generally speaking, search engines operate on the basic concept of scanning or "crawling" a directed graph of nodes. At each node encountered, the Search Engine retrieves and indexes the data content discovered at that node. Nodes are identified by URL such as http://MyDomain/ MySite.coms. In the first illustrated embodiment, this is a crawler based on the Google® search engine, the application program interface (API) of which is publicly available from the company by that same name. Other embodiments may utilize other crawler and/or search engine technology known in the art — again, as adapted in accord with the teachings hereof.
That Google® API contemplates a large number of file types and database access routines. The illustrated embodiment utilizes an interface (see Figure 2) to that API (and, therefore, to the web crawler) that provides dynamic automation data in a dynamically updating table. That interface additionally dynamically reconfigures the behavior of the search engine to re-index (re-search) the dynamic data based on a unique combination of prioritization, scheduling, on demand or by exception algorithms. As will be evident to those skilled in the art, unique aspects of this design include, among others:
•aggregation of all (or selected portions of) real-time automation data •can be adapted to work with any existing automation or control system •can be adapted to work with any web-based human machine interface (HMI).
In the illustrated embodiment, a request by the user (via the HMI) for a process variable (or other process attribute) is met with a unified display showing results for the dynamically updating variable (or attribute), its historical values and it current configuration
parameters. Likewise, a search on "brown sugar" would result in recipes, suppliers, markets, where and how brown sugar is being used in the process yesterday, today or tomorrow (as reflected in real-time automation data from the Plant). As with other search technology data, relevance is a function of the user and is managed by the actual user's behavior. This user interface provides prioritized data based on any number of configuration parameters, e.g., Alarm, value, cost, critically, etc.
Other applications of the illustrated embodiment include, by way of non-limiting example::
• Prioritized search engines that can communicate with each other and supervisory applications providing a unique mix of real time and historical date allowing new degrees of placing information within context. This allows multiple data feeds to be integrated and examined by other data modeling packages (e.g., such as those commercially available from the SimSci-Esscor of the assignee hereof) to determine trends and make prognostic decisions, useful for process optimization, asset management, maintenance, safety, supply chain, and plant security.
Figure 2 is a more detailed view of the system of Figure 1, showing inter alia automation data/web crawler interface as including three interfaces (labeled, (1), (2) and (3)) and managed by functionality referred to herein, for sake of convenience and without limitation, as "InReality."
The normal output of a crawler is to download web pages, extract links, make determinations as to where to go next and pass the pages off to a search engine that will index them for retrieval. The index contains meta-data on the page as well as pages themselves, in a cache. The crawler is constantly updating the index while users are requesting searches from the search engine that first relies on the index for the requested data.
The first interface, labeled (1), is between the InReality application and the Plant's real time data. Four "sub-" interfaces are shown, though, other embodiments may have greater or fewer. The first such sub-interface is between the Plant's control (or automation) system and the InReality application. In the illustrated embodiment, this interface is the
ArchestrA based global data repository and is supplemented by an interface that uses OPC data and FDT data. Together, these allow real time data to be made available to enterprise applications. The other three sub-interfaces are between the InReality application and the Plant's real-time security system, it's real-time maintenance management system, and it's real-time asset-tracking system — all, by way of example. These sub-interfaces are supported by the ArchestraA, by the corresponding plant system themselves, and/or otherwise.
The second interface, labeled (2), is between the InReality application and the indexed data created by the crawler. In the illustrated embodiment, this is the index that the search engine goes to first, looking to resolve the users query. Such an interface can be adapted to any commercial (or otherwise known) search engine, that allows real time process data to be viewed as if it were an indexed web page with related attributes. The metadata of the file (size, author, date created, key words), is replaced (by way of example) with the metadata of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value. This 'index' interface is updated by the control system as change driven data from the control system. Additionally, there are mechanisms to update the index based either on scheduling or on demand by an application programming interface (API).
The third interface, labeled (3), is between the existing web crawler and the InReality application. All crawlers have their own unique methods of directing how the crawler behaves. These methods are known as policies and address how the crawler determines where to go next. The interface driven by the InReality application and its configuration will control the crawler such that it can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with process state, alarm conditions or events.
In operation, users utilizing the human machine interface (HMI) of the illustrated embodiment (depicted here, by way of non-limiting example, as the workstations labeled "Typical Users") post search queries to a web browser (or other) application executing thereon. As noted above, such a browser can execute in the conventional manner known in the art, as adapted in accord with the teachings hereof. Those queries are applied by the search engine against the aforementioned index (e.g., as more fully shown in the drawing) in
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order to generate links to web pages from the Enterprise and/or Internet (in the conventional manner known in the art), as well as to generate links to and/or real-time displays from realtime automation data (e.g., in accord with the teachings above).
Figures 3 - 5 depict the presentation of such an HMI in a system according to the invention. Specifically, Figure 3 depicts a three-column presentation generated in response to a user query for "PumplOl". The two leftmost columns contain display elements that include links and other information from pages retrieved from the web in the conventional manner known in the art. The rightmost column contains display elements that include real-time graphical displays of automation data from that equipment in the automation system (i.e., the "Plant") associated with the tag "PumplOl." Figure 4 shows a similar such presentation, albeit wherein the rightmost column displays additional graphical automation data from PumplOl. It will be appreciated from the foregoing that the display elements generated by the HMI need not be static but, rather, may be interactive — e.g., as in the case of (i) links that respond to user selection by effecting display of web pages that are targeted by the links, and (ii) real-time graphical displays of automaton data that can dynamically convey changing information. It will be appreciated that the foregoing are just examples of the types of information conveyed by the display elements (static, dynamic, or otherwise).
In the illustrated embodiment, a user or system administrator) may configure the HMI for presentation of the displays of Figures 3 and 4, among others, utilizing a preference panel, not shown. Such preferences can permit, by way of non-limiting example, selection of specific graphical display panels, as well as specification of types and/or subsets of automation data to be searched.
Figure 5 depicts a presentation of the type generated by the HMI wherein the rightmost column (by way of example) includes links to — rather than real-time graphical displays based on — automation data from plants, equipment, alarms, historians, and other aspects of the Plant associated with the query term (in this case, for the term "Pump"). Such links can be presented, in addition to or in lieu of graphical displays (e.g., of Figures 3 - 4) where multiple data streams are associated with a given search and/or" where so selected by the preferences panel.
As evident upon examination of Figures 3 - 5, the search box of the illustrated browser is supplemented with a "Search Internet" button, in addition to the conventional "Search Web" button. Use of the former permits the user to specifically limit his or her search to real-time automation data and, optionally, other information on the enterprise network (e.g., as determined by the aforementioned preferences panel). Use of the latter combines both a search of the web and of the real-time automation data (and, optionally, other information on the enterprise network).
As will be further evident upon examination of those drawings, above the search box are domain-specific search limiters. Those for web are conventional, e.g., "images," "groups," "news" and so forth. Those for the intranet are unique to the illustrated embodiment. In the illustrated embodiment, these are for categories of real-time data, such as, plants, equipment, alarms, historians, and so forth. Other embodiments may use other categories. Regardless, for each of the categories, the HMI can additionally include a graphical component (such as, by way of non-limiting example, a bar graph) reflecting a number of search "hits" per category.
Microsoft Enterprise Search
Further embodiments of the invention utilize search engine technology based on Microsoft Enterprise Search, as described in further detail below, all by way of non-limiting example. In these embodiments, data content is categorized by "Content Source" which is associated with a Protocol Handler. Out-of-the-box Protocol Handlers provided by Microsoft are available for the following "Content Sources":
WebContentSource - Includes any Web content
• SharePointContentSource -Includes all Windows SharePoint Services content
• FileShareContentSource -Includes all file share content
• ExchangePublicFolderContentSource - Includes all Microsoft® Exchange Server public folder content
LotusNotesContentSource -Includes all Lotus Notes content Not configured by default
These content sources define what type of information will be crawled and indexed. Scopes can be defined that limit queries to a subset of data contained within the indexed content of a Sharepoint Server.
The system uses a pull-based model, not a push-model. This can limit scalability and performance with respect to refresh latencies. In order to reduce latencies, an incremental crawling technique implemented within the Microsoft technology allows more efficient and therefore shorter crawl cycles to be used. In embodiments of the invention wherein incremental crawling is leveraged, then latencies of 10-15 minutes may be achievable. While this may not be considered "real-time" data, it falls well within the timing requirements of configuration metadata as well as hour-average process data. Access to real-time process data is handled through standard API mechanisms once a tag reference of interest has been identified through query.
A push-model based on incremental, change-driven eventing, as may be implemented in connection with future versions of Microsoft Search, is beneficial in reducing data update latencies.
The relative ranking of information returned from a query is controlled by link analysis but can also be affected by tuning property weights and query weights.
Two mechanisms are exposed for client access to the query engine:
• Web Service for remote access
• .NET Managed Query Object Model for local access
Two types of queries are supported:
• Keyword
• SQL
Basic Schema Concepts
Information is referenced in the form of properties. Two types of properties exist: 1) Crawled Properties and 2) Managed Properties. Crawled Properties are discovered from the crawled content and Managed Properties are defined by an administrator. A mapping is then defined that associates these two properties for purposes of query and display.
Properties have names and may be single valued or multi-valued. In addition, property access is intended to be read-only. If update is required, then business objects should be used to control access and provide validation.
System Deployment Topology
Figure 6 illustrates a typical multi-tier architecture using web server front-ends, application servers running the query servers being fed by an indexing server which crawls database and web service content
Technical Overview
Figure 7 provides a detailed view of the Search service internal architecture.
Following are the components of the Search service's architecture:
Index Engine - Processes the chunks of text and properties filtered from content sources, storing them in the content index and property store.
• Query Engine - Executes keyword and SQL syntax queries against the content index and search configuration data.
• Protocol Handlers - Opens content sources in their native protocols and exposes documents and other items to be filtered.
• IFilters - Opens documents and other content source items in their native formats and filters into chunks of text and properties.
Content Index - Stores information about words and their location in a content item.
• Property Store - Stores a table of properties and associated values.
• Search Configuration Data - Stores information used by the Search service, including crawl configuration, property schema, scopes, and so on.
• Wordbreakers - Used by the query and index engines to break compound words and phrases into individual words or tokens.
Integration of External Data Repositories
The following techniques are available to integrate external data repositories:
CustomContentSource - Used to create custom content source. These content sources require the development of COM objects that implement the ISearchProtocol, IUrlAccessor and IFilter interfaces. These objects can be built using either native or managed .NET code but only native objects using ATL have been built to date.
Business Data Content Source - This special content source is supplied as part of the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Enterprise (e.g. MOSS Enterprise). The Business Data Catalog (e.g. BDC) acts as an adapter for access to ADO.NET data sources (e.g. SQLServer) and Web Services. Data returned by the ADO.NET or Web Service may be in the form of XML or a .NET Dataset. If information is accessible using either of these techniques, then the BDC provides a very attractive integration mechanism. Information residing in the BDC is maintained and queried as a list of properties. These properties are defined using an XML file which could be generated programmatically.
Business Data Catalog
Business Data Catalog comprises a metadata database and an object model that provides a simple, consistent, object-oriented programming interface for business logic that lives in the various business applications.
Figure 8 is a high-level architecture diagram of Business Data Catalog showing the interaction between business data sources, the metadata database, and business data features and solutions.
Figure 9 shows the low-level architecture of Business Data Catalog, including the interaction between the metadata database and the Runtime and Administration object models.
Manufacturing Information Content
Document-centric information valuable to the operation and management of industrial processes is indexed using standard content source types:
• Process Reports
• Process Shift and Hourly Logs
• Operating Instructions Operations Manuals
• Material Safety Data Sheets
• Instrument Specifications
• Intranet Websites
• Equipment Engineering Specifications
• Engineering Drawings (using attribute extraction to text)
• Process Engineering Documents Etc....
If these documents are currently available only through a document management system, then either they can be 1) replicated to a read-only network share or website, such as Sharepoint, or 2) a custom protocol handler could be built to provide direct access to the document management system.
Interesting properties might include such plant entities as equipment, strategy/loop, pipeline, instrument, area, etc.
Information contained within the control system configuration database is crawled and indexed using an appropriate technique such as:
• ADO.NET, if the configuration is maintained within a standard database schema.
• Custom Web Service built to wrap a custom API. This might apply to ArchestrA and the GRAccess API or to the InFusion IEE API.
• Standard Content Sources, if the configuration database can be extracted into a series of documents that represent the configuration objects using a reporting or export capability.
The user can query and navigate the indexed documents, as desired, using standard Sharepoint user interface (e.g. UI) tools. A custom UI, built using a web part, allows the user to access the manufacturing and control systems applications directly, based upon query results returned. This provides a very utilitarian interface, especially for casual users. As crawler efficiency improves, more and more dynamic process information can be included in the indexed content.
By way of example, an enterprise environment in which a system according to the invention operates can include data repositories such as, e.g., equipment databases, manufacturing databases, and batch processing databases, of the type known in the art (as adapted in accord with the teachings hereof). These databases, which can exist in lieu of, or in addition to, the aforementioned ArchestrA™ based global data repository discussed above, are merely additional examples of the data repositories with which systems and methods according to the invention operate.
In operation, a user utilizing human machine interface (HMI) methods and apparatus according to the invention can obtain information regarding a process attribute, such as a process control equipment tag "SClOO" (by way of non-limiting example), by posting a query to a web browser as discussed above. As further discussed above, such a query is applied to the search engine in order to generate links to and/or real-time displays from realtime automation data for the enterprise, as well as links to web pages internal to the enterprise (including, for example, pages conveying information from the aforementioned equipment, manufacturing, and batch processing databases) and to web pages on the Internet.
To this end, links and/or other information pertaining to the enterprise can be obtained via interface(s) of the type described above, e.g., to the search engine API, that provide
dynamic automation data in a dynamically updating table. Alternatively, or in addition, such links and/or other information can be obtained via use of Microsoft Enterprise Search (or related technologies) in enterprises whose infrastructures are so suited. In any event, it will be appreciated that methods and apparatus constructed in accord with the teachings hereof identify and aggregate, e.g., via display on the user's browser, the aforementioned links and other information regarding the requested process attribute (here, tag "SClOO") — regardless of whether it is contained in a single enterprise database or distributed throughout several non-integrated or disconnected databases.
Described above are systems and their methods of operation meeting the objects set forth earlier. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments presented herein are merely examples of the invention and that other embodiments, incorporating changes thereto, fall within the scope of the invention. Thus, by way of non-limiting example, it will be appreciated that the specific arrangement of the presentations of Figures 3 - 5 is merely by way of example and shall not be construed to limit the invention.
Claims
1. A digital data processing system comprising,
A. a web browser,
B. the web browser responding to a user query by generating and displaying a plurality of display elements, wherein
i. at least one said display element represents one or more aspects of plant and/ or real-time automation data, and
ii. at least one said display element represents characteristics of one or more pages of an Internet, wide area network, local area network, and/or enterprise network, other than plant and/or real-time automation data.
2. The digital data processing system of claim 1, wherein at least one said display element represents one or more aspects of business data maintained on an enterprise network.
3. The digital data processing system of claim 1 further comprising, a web crawler search engine, in communication coupling with the web browser, that collects realtime automation data for such display and query by users.
4. The digital data processing system of claim 3, wherein the web crawler search engine indexes one or more pages of the Internet, wide area network, and/or local area network, and/or enterprise network.
5. The digital data processing system of claim 1, comprising a digital data processor that transfers real-time process automation data from a repository of plant automation data to the web crawler search engine for indexing and resolving user queries.
6. The digital data processing system of claim S, wherein said digital data processor transfers field device tool (FDT) data and/or object linking and embedding for process control (OPC) data to the web crawler for such indexing and resolving user queries.
7. The digital data processing system of claim 6, wherein such transfers are effected by presenting the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data to the web crawler as if that data were web pages with related attributes.
8. The digital data processing system of claim 3, wherein the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data is input into the web crawler with metadata for any of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value.
9. The digital data processing system of claim 7, wherein the transfers are effected by an interface that updates the real-time automation data, the FDT data and/or the OPC data indexed by the web crawler as change driven data.
10. The digital data processing system of claim 5, wherein the index is updated based on a schedule and/or a demand by an application programming interface (API).
11. The digital data processing system of claim 1, wherein one or more policies direct behavior of the web crawler, the policies controlled such that they can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with any of process state, alarm conditions or events.
12. A digital data processing system comprising,
a web crawler search engine that collects and indexes real-time process automation data and any of (i) one or more pages of an Internet or (ii) one or more pages of a wide area network, local area network, and/or other enterprise network.
13. The digital data processing system of claim 12, wherein the index is updated based on a schedule and/or a demand by an application programming interface (API).
14. The digital data processing system of claim 12, wherein such data provided to the web crawler with metadata for any of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value.
15. The digital data processing system of claim 12 further comprising,
A. a web browser,
B. the web browser responding to a user query by generating and displaying a plurality of display elements, wherein
i. at least one said display element represents one or more aspects of plant and/ or real-time automation data, and
ii. at least one said display element represents characteristics of one or more pages of an Internet, wide area network, local area network, and/or other enterprise network, other than plant and/or real-time automation data.
16. The digital data processing system of claim 15, wherein at least one said display element represents one or more aspects of business data maintained on the..wide area network, local area network, and/or other enterprise network.
17. The digital data processing system of claim 12, comprising one or more digital data processors transfers real-time process automation data from a repository of plant automation data to the web crawler for indexing and resolving user queries.
18. The digital data processing system of claim 17, wherein the one or more digital data processors transfers field device tool (FDT) data and object linking and embedding for process control (OPC) data to the web crawler for such indexing and resolving user queries.
19. The digital data processing system of claim 17, wherein such transfers are effected by presenting the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data to the web crawler as if that data were web pages with related attributes.
20. The digital data processing system of claim 18, wherein the transfers are effected by an interface that updates the real-time automation data, the FDT data and/or the OPC data indexed by the web crawler as change driven data.
21. The digital data processing system of claim 12, wherein one or more policies direct behavior of the web crawler, the policies controlled such that they can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with any of process state, alarm conditions or events.
22. A digital data processing system comprising,
A. a web browser executing on a first digital data processor,
B. the web browser responding to a user query by generating and displaying one or more display elements, wherein at least one said display element represents one or more aspects of plant and/or real-time automation data, and
C. a web crawler search engine executing a second digital data processor that is in communications coupling with the first digital data processor,
D. the web crawler search engine collecting and indexing real-time automation data transfered from a repository of automation data for such display and query by users.
23. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein at least one said display element represents characteristics of one or more pages of an Internet, wide area network, local area network, and/or other enterprise network, other than plant and/or real-time automation data.
24. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein at least one said display element represents one or more aspects of business data maintained on the wide area network, local area network and/or other enterprise network.
25. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein the web crawler search engine indexes one or more pages of the Internet, wide area network, local area network and/or other enterprise network.
26. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein a digital data processor transfers field device tool (FDT) data and object linking and embedding for process control (OPC) data to the web crawler for such indexing.
27. The digital data processing system of claim 26, wherein such transfers are effected by presenting the real-time process automation data, the FDT data and/or OPC data to the web crawler as if that data were web pages with related attributes.
28. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein such data is input into the web crawler with metadata for any of control point, state, alarm condition, description, status, and value.
29. The digital data processing system of claim 28, wherein the transfers are effected by an interface that updates the real-time automation data, the FDT data and/or the OPC data indexed by the web crawler as change driven data.
30. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein the index is updated based on a schedule and/or a demand by an application programming interface (API).
31. The digital data processing system of claim 22, wherein one or more policies direct behavior of the web crawler, the policies controlled such that they can be interrupted and redirected in a new direction based on a forcing policy associated with any of process state, alarm conditions or events.
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