SPOKE AND HUB CONFIGURATION FOR A PROCESS CONTROL OR AUTOMATION SYSTEM

A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices. The compute fabric is implemented in a spoke and hub configuration in which the compute fabric includes computing infrastructure organized into one or more hubs, with each hub disposed in a particular geographical region or area. Each hub of the compute fabric may include communication connections in the form of spokes to each of a plurality of geographical locations or areas, such as plants, and may store and process the data from each of the associated spokes in the hub. The various different hubs may be used to organize or control what enterprise data is processed or handled in particular geographical regions and where enterprise actions, such as control actions, take place in the enterprise.