Control apparatus, control method, and program

1. A control apparatus comprising:

a storage unit that stores operation management information;

an application executing unit that communicates with a field instrument installed in a plant via a plurality of input/output modules that are configured such that one of two of the plurality of input/output modules runs while the other one waits to make the input/output modules redundant, and transmits a signal for suspending power supply to the field instrument; and

a resetting unit that, based on the signal, transmits an instruction to suspend power supply from the input/output modules, wherein

based on reception of the signal, the resetting unit stores or updates a controlled state of the input/output modules stored in the operation management information at least either: at timing of transmission of the instruction to suspend the power supply, or at timing when operation for suspending the power supply to the field instrument is performed by a human interface station connected with the control apparatus via a network, the controlled state indicating whether the input/output modules are running or waiting.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the operation management information further includes a state whether the redundant input/output modules are running or waiting.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein upon reception of the instruction to suspend the power supply, the redundant input/output modules suspend power supply from a running input/output module among the input/output modules after an elapse of preset time.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the application executing unit transmits a signal for resuming the power supply to the field instrument;

the resetting unit, based on the signal for resuming the power supply, transmits an instruction to resume the power supply from the input/output modules; and

the control apparatus further comprising

an activating unit that transmits an instruction to resume the power supply from the input/output modules, based on an elapse of preset time during which the power supply from the input/output modules should be suspended.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein upon reception, from the activating unit, of the instruction to resume the power supply from the input/output modules, based on the operation management information, the redundant input/output modules resume the power supply from an input/output module which has been running among the input/output modules.

6. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the input/output modules have a control means that switches a state of the input/output modules between a running state and a waiting state, and

based on the state of the input/output modules being switched between the running state and the waiting state by the control means, in the operation management information, information that is stored on a memory provided to the input/output modules and indicates that the input/output modules are in the running state or the waiting state is stored or updated.

7. The control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the field instruments issues an alarm if a measurement value exceeding a predetermined threshold is detected, the alarm to be canceled by suspending a power supply to the field instrument.

8. A control method performed by a control apparatus which: is in a plant where a field instrument is installed; and has a storage unit that communicates with the field instrument via a plurality of input/output modules and stores operation management information, the control method for causing one of two of the plurality of input/output modules to run and the other one to wait, to make the input/output modules redundant, the method comprising:

transmitting a signal for suspending power supply to the field instrument;

transmitting, based on the signal, an instruction to suspend power supply from the input/output modules;

storing or updating, based on reception of the signal, a controlled state of the input/output modules at least either: at timing of transmission of the instruction to suspend the power supply, or at timing when operation for suspending the power supply to the field instrument is performed by a human interface station connected with the control apparatus via a network, the controlled state indicating whether the input/output modules are running or waiting;

transmitting, based on an elapse of preset time during which the power supply from the input/output modules should be suspended, an instruction to resume the power supply from the input/output modules; and

storing or updating, based on reception of the instruction to resume, the controlled state of the input/output modules stored in the operation management information.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing thereon a program that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to function as a control apparatus which: is in a plant where a field instrument is installed; and has a storage unit that communicates with the field instrument via a plurality of input/output modules and stores operation management information, the control method for causing one of two of the plurality of input/output modules to run and the other one to wait, to make the input/output modules redundant by performing operations comprising:

transmitting a signal for suspending power supply to the field instrument;

transmitting, based on the signal, an instruction to suspend power supply from the input/output modules;

storing or updating, based on reception of the signal, a controlled state of the input/output modules at least either: at timing of transmission of the instruction to suspend the power supply, or at timing when operation for suspending the power supply to the field instrument is performed by a human interface station connected with the control apparatus via a network, the controlled state indicating whether the input/output modules are running or waiting;

transmitting, based on an elapse of preset time during which the power supply from the input/output modules should be suspended, an instruction to resume the power supply from the input/output modules; and

storing or updating, based on reception of the instruction to resume, the controlled state of the input/output modules stored in the operation management information.