Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Allen-bradley Company, LLC

Calvin C Steinweg

Robert Dilgard

David Christopher Mazur

Corey A Peterson

Roberto S Marques

Todd Richard Sauve

Peter John Halpin

Scott D Braun

Thong T Nguyen

Paul David Schmirler

Troy Micheal Bellows

Alex Laurence Nicoll

Mithun Mohan Nagabhairava

Wanda J Miller

James K Newbern

Jonathan D Walter

Jonathan M Wise

Ryan Coon

Peter J Flickinger

Russel J Kerkman

Rob Alan Entzminger

Alan J Campbell

Paul Thomas Krause

Scott Duane Day

Rachel M Bugaris

John Michael Keller

John Howard Stuedemann

Neil W Knutsen

David W Schlegel

Andrew J Schaeffler

Christine E Weingarth

Michael Robert Bayer

Emily M Schimek

David M Wisniewski

Michael R Bayer

A system for control of motors for industrial applications including a motor control center and motor control unit. The motor control center having at least one printed circuit board, and a motor control unit having at least one pin. At least one pin includes a barrel, a plunger, and a spring. The motor control unit is selectively insertable into the motor control center, whereas the at least one pin transitions from the first position to the second position upon insertion and the at least one pin connects to the at least one printed circuit board forming an electrical connection between the motor control center and motor control unit.

Blind electrical connection in a motor control center through spring contacts

A system includes a multidrop cable and a connector. The connector is configured to couple to one or more MCC withdrawable units installed in one or more respective buckets of an MCC, wherein the connector is configured to couple the one or more MCC withdrawable units to, and decouple the one or more MCC withdrawable units from, the multidrop cable without disrupting a network or a subnet of the MCC.

Systems and methods for motor control center trunk and drop connector

A system includes a solid-state circuit breaker coupling between a power supply and an electrical load. The system also includes a gateway interface device communicatively coupled to the solid-state circuit breaker and includes a plurality of communication interfaces. In an embodiment, the gateway interface device includes a controller configured to perform operations including determining a connection status of at least one communication interface of the plurality of communication interfaces and determining a number of devices connected to the at least one communication interface, receive a signal from at least one device of the number of devices. In the embodiment, the operations may also include in response to receiving the signal, instructing the solid-state circuit breaker to disconnect the electrical load from the power supply.

Gateway interface for an enhanced circuit breaker disconnect

A system may include a power supply that generates a first voltage. The power supply may couple upstream from an electrical load. The electrical load may operate based at least in part on the first voltage. In some cases, a solid-state circuit breaker may be coupled between the power supply and the electrical load. Furthermore, a control system may be communicatively coupled to the power supply, the electrical load, and the solid-state circuit breaker. The control system may receive an operational status from the solid-state circuit breaker and may update a visualization rendered on a graphical user interface based at least in part on the operational status. The operational status may indicate an operation of the solid-state circuit breaker coupling the power supply to the electrical load.

Motor control center with enhanced circuit disconnect

A motor control center (MCC) for an industrial system includes a plurality of sections and a safety bus. Each section includes one or more units. Each unit includes one or more industrial control devices. The safety bus is configured to receive safety signals from a safety distribution unit and delivers the safety signals to each unit of the plurality of section.

Safety bus in an industrial device assembly

For secure and safe access control, a method authenticates a user of an equipment unit with a user credential. The method determines an equipment status for the equipment unit. The equipment status includes one of energized and un-energized and one of locked and unlocked. The method determines whether the user is authorized to access the equipment unit with an equipment authorization. The determination that the user is authorized is based on the equipment status. In response to the user being authenticated and authorized to access the equipment unit energized or the user being authorized to access the equipment unit un-energized and the equipment unit being un-energized, the method releases a unit lock for the equipment unit with a unit lock credential and the user credential.

Secure and safe access control

A system has a processor that may receive an order of an industrial device assembly having multiple industrial automation devices. The processor may also generate a first data file based on the order of the industrial device assembly. The first data file may have specification data associated with each industrial automation device and hierarchical information associated with each industrial automation device. Additionally, the processor may generate a second data file based on the first data file. The second data file has one or more control blocks of code associated with each industrial automation device. Further, the processor may transmit the second data file to a control system associated with the industrial device assembly. The control system is automatically programmed based on the second data file to control one or more operations of each industrial automation device in the industrial device assembly.

Systems and methods for automatic commissioning of an industrial device assembly

Provided herein are techniques related to an industrial system that may have a plurality of industrial automation devices, a database that has a plurality of location datasets that correspond to the plurality of industrial automation devices, and a monitoring system that may communicate with the industrial automation devices via a network and the database. The monitoring system may send a first request to the industrial automation devices in the industrial system to identify an industrial automation device having an active maintenance status. The active maintenance status may be indicative of a maintenance request for the industrial automation device. The monitoring system may send a second request to the database for a location dataset associated with the industrial automation device, generate a visualization that includes the active maintenance status and the location dataset associated with the industrial automation device, and display the visualization via an electronic display.

Systems and methods for monitoring device information

For secure and safe access control, a method authenticates the user of an equipment unit with a user credential. The method determines whether the user is authorized to access the equipment unit with an equipment authorization. In response to the user being authenticated and authorized to access the equipment unit, the method releases a unit lock for the equipment unit with a unit lock credential or the user credential.

For filtering display data, a method receives reference data for an equipment instance. The method converts the reference data to display data. The method determines a user action. The method filters the display data based on the user action. The method presents the display data.

Filtering display data

A power electronics device with an improved human interface module (HIM) is provided. More specifically, a motor drive is provided that includes a HIM with a portable memory device that stores the programming configuration of the motor drive. The improved HIM with portable memory enables improved techniques for quickly and efficiently updating the programming configuration of one or several motor drives.

Human interface module for motor drive

For emphasizing equipment based on an equipment tag, a processor receives a given equipment reference code for a given equipment instance. The processor further identifies one or more equipment tags in the image. Each equipment tag corresponds to a unique equipment reference code. The processor identifies a given equipment tag corresponding to the given equipment reference code in the image. In addition, the processor emphasizes the given equipment instance in the image presented on the display.

Emphasizing equipment based on an equipment tag

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Hartford, WI, United States of America

Calvin C Steinweg