Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Andrew J Keizer

Kenneth Scott Plache

Paul R D'Mura

Clark L Case

Robert C Kline

Gretchen Lee Krehbiel

Adrian D Pantea

William E Godsil

Gigi Dewey

Gretchen L Krehbiel

Industrial devices are configured to provide their associated industrial data to client-side user interface applications in a self-describing manner that instructs the interface applications how the data is to be rendered. In response to a request for a data item from a user interface application, the industrial device sends the requested data item together with presentation metadata that identifies a widget or graphical objects to be used by the interface application to render the data item on a user interface. By providing the industrial data in a self-describing manner, additional data or services can be added to the industrial device without requiring a corresponding update to the client-side interface application.

Self-describing diagnostic data for presentation on mobile devices

According to various embodiments, an interdependency modeling method for controlling a batch process with an industrial automation system includes evaluating an input parameter expression residing in a level of a supervisory system of the industrial automation system to determine a value, transferring the value of the input parameter expression to a level of an equipment control system of the industrial automation system, transferring data from the level of the equipment control system to the level of the supervisory system, and evaluating an output parameter expression residing in the level of the supervisory system based on the data from the level of the equipment control system.

Systems and methods for modeling interdependencies in batch processes

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Andrew J Keizer