Process Control App Marketplace Using Telemetry and ML Recommendations
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Solution Overview
Problem
The designing, commissioning, and operation of distributed control systems in process control environments are manually intensive and lack access to tailored application marketplaces, leading to suboptimal system performance.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based service that includes machine-readable instructions and processor circuitry to detect configurations or states of process control systems using telemetry data, execute machine learning models to generate recommendations for changes, and implement those changes, facilitating an application marketplace for process control systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual processes are used for designing, commissioning, and operating distributed control systems, then system operation can be maintained, but the process remains manually intensive and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated machine learning models that independently analyze telemetry data, generate optimization recommendations, and implement changes to process control systems without requiring manual human intervention for each operation
Solution Approach 2:
Manual mechanical processes are replaced with automated computational systems including machine learning models, cloud-based services, and software agents that perform analysis, decision-making, and system configuration tasks previously requiring human operators
2Productivity
If distributed control systems operate without access to tailored application marketplaces, then system simplicity is maintained, but system performance becomes suboptimal
Solution Approach 1:
A cloud-based marketplace service acts as an intermediary between application developers and process control systems, providing a centralized platform for discovering, deploying, and managing optimized applications without requiring direct integration complexity at the control system level
Solution Approach 2:
The marketplace service provides multiple functions including application discovery, deployment, configuration, and management through a single unified platform that serves various process control system needs through standardized interfaces
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AI summary
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for an application marketplace for process control systems. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to detect at least one of a configuration or a state of operation of a process control system based on telemetry data associated with the process control system, execute a machine learning model to generate an output based on the at least one of the configuration or the state of operation, the output to be representative of a recommendation to change a portion of the process control system, and cause a change of the portion of the process control system based on the recommendation.