Claims
- 1. An integrated system for verifying the performance and health of a plurality of instruments and processes, said system comprising:
a plurality of digital signals, each representing an output from a sensor; and a computer responsive to said plurality of digital signals, said computer having software programmed to perform the functions of
storing a plurality of sampled data in storage media; screening said plurality of sampled data to remove outliers; analyzing said sampled data and producing analysis results; determining whether a corrective action is required by said analysis results; and generating output of said analysis results.
- 2. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said function of analyzing includes performing a drift analysis.
- 3. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said function of analyzing includes performing a noise analysis.
- 4. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said function of analyzing includes comparing a measured process value to a calculated process value.
- 5. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said correction action is in situ testing.
- 6. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said correction action is a loop current step response test.
- 7. The integrated system of claim 1 a cross calibration.
- 8. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said correction action is an alarm.
- 9. The integrated system of claim 1 wherein said function of generating output includes producing at least one of a plot, a bar chart, a table, and a report.
- 10. At least one computer programmed to execute a process for verifying the performance and health of a plurality of instruments and processes, the process comprising:
storing a plurality of sampled data in storage media; screening said plurality of sampled data to remove bad data; analyzing said sampled data and producing analysis results; determining whether a corrective action is required by said analysis results; and generating output of said analysis results.
- 11. The process of claim 10 wherein said step of analyzing includes performing a drift analysis.
- 12. The process of claim 10 wherein said step of analyzing includes performing a noise analysis.
- 13. The process of claim 10 wherein said step of analyzing includes comparing a measured process value to a calculated process value.
- 14. The process of claim 10 wherein said step of performing the corrective action includes performing at least one of a loop current step response test, in situ testing, a cross calibration, and providing an alarm.
- 15. The integrated system of claim 10 wherein said step of generating output includes producing at least one of a plot, a bar chart, a table, and a report.
- 16. A method for verifying the performance and health of a plurality of instruments and processes, said method comprising:
sampling data from a plurality of sensors; storing said sampled data; screening said sampled data; analyzing said sampled data; performing a corrective action as determined during said step of analyzing; and generating results of said analysis and said testing.
- 17. The method of claim 16 wherein said step of analyzing includes performing a drift analysis.
- 18. The method of claim 16 wherein said step of analyzing includes performing a noise analysis.
- 19. The method of claim 16 wherein said step of analyzing includes comparing a measured process value to a calculated process value.
- 20. The method of claim 16 wherein said step of performing the corrective action includes performing at least one of a loop current step response test, in situ testing, a cross calibration, and providing an alarm.
- 21. An integrated system for verifying the performance and health of a plurality of instruments and processes, said system comprising:
a means for acquiring a plurality of digital signals, each of said plurality of digital signals representing an output from a sensor; a means for processing said plurality of digital signals. a means for storing said plurality of digital signals; a means for screening said plurality of digital signals; a means for analyzing said plurality of digital signals; a means for determining whether a corrective action is required; and a means for generating results of said analysis.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to Provisional Application Serial No. 60/380,516 filed on May 14, 2002.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60380516 |
May 2002 |
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