Distributed control system for industrial processes, method therein, computer program and computer program product

A distributed control system for an industrial process and a corresponding method are provided. A distributed control system includes one or more runtime services across a server layer and a control layer. Each runtime service is arranged to manage its own configuration data, and each configuration item of the runtime service is provided with a unique identifier within the distributed control system, where each such unique identifier is associated with a physical host address corresponding to an endpoint of the respective runtime service, and storing as the attribute of the configuration item thereof. 提供了一种用于工业过程的分布式控制系统和相应的方法。分布式控制系统包括跨越服务器层和控制层的一个或多个运行时服务。每个运行时服务被布置为管理其自身的配置数据，并且运行时服务的每个配置项设置有在分布式控制系统内唯一的标识符，其中每个这种唯一标识符与对应于相应的运行时服务的端点的物理主机地址相关联，并作为其配置项的属性而存储。