ENGINEERING IN A PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM

An engineering server of a process control system includes at least one processor operable to provide a group of engineering services of an engineering services platform, which group includes at least one engineering directory service and at least one group of model services, where each engineering directory service provides at least one object of a type corresponding to a type of process control equipment and each model service provides a function operating on an object provided by a corresponding engineering directory service and allowing a user to configure the corresponding function, wherein the model services and the engineering directory service are realized as microservices and each model service communicates with the corresponding engineering directory service via a corresponding point-to-point connection and stores configurations made by the user in a source file store for being implemented as configurations of real functions in a runtime system of the process control system operating on process control equipment.