A system and method for operating a remote plant simulation system is disclosed. The system and method uses a light application at the plant to collect relevant data and communicate it to a remote plant simulation. The remote plant simulation uses the relevant data, including data from the actual process, to create a process simulation and communicate the display data to the light application operating at the plant where it is displayed to a user. The remote system offers the advantage of offering decreased cost and improved simulation as the equipment cost, operator cost and set up cost is shared by a plurality of users. Further, the data may be stored remotely and subject to data analytics which may identify additional areas for efficiency in the plant.

To process monitoring data during operation of an electric power system, a processing system controls a human machine interface to output an alarm panel, enable an operator input to select a list element from the alarm list, and, responsive to the operator input, cause at least one control action to be performed. The alarm panel comprises several icon sequences for several alarms.

Disclosed examples create a multi-aspect object, the multi-aspect object represented using a class definition; assign a first capability to the multi-aspect object, the first capability to communicate with equipment in a control system; assign a second capability to the multi-aspect object, the second capability to communicate with the equipment in the control system; create a semantic data model in the multi-aspect object, the semantic data model to share information between the first capability and the second capability of the multi-aspect object; deploy the first capability of the multi-aspect object on a first runtime platform; and deploy the second capability of the multi-aspect object on a second runtime platform, the semantic data model to communicate between the first and second runtime platforms to share the information between the first and second capabilities of the multi-aspect object.

System and method for synchronizing information model changes between hierarchical systems of a smart factory are disclosed. A model generator instantiates objects for an aggregated information model for each of a plurality of subsystems in the smart factory based on an OPC UA standardized model. A synchronization engine maintains a global timestamp variable for a last successful synchronization performed by a parent OPC UA server for syncing to a second aggregated information model instance stored in a lower level OPC UA server. Model nodes are annotated with a node-wise timestamp in response to a modification to the node. All nodes subject to modification are pushed to a priority queue as a serialized node set format having annotation extensions that include synchronization-relevant data. The first and second aggregated information model are synchronized by updating nodes with the synchronization-relevant data.

An information processing apparatus includes: a processor that: acquires, from a device for an operation of a plant, data related to the operation of the plant; assigns attribute information indicating a state of the device to the acquired data; and operates the plant by using the data to which the attribute information is assigned.