General Electric Company

Christina Ann Romanik

Patrick Joseph Conroy

Richard William Shaw

Pradyumna Ojha

John Ronald Burr

Balajose Goli

Veera Paparao Bolla

Muralidhar Venkata Subrahmanya Duvvuri

Dhanashree Sadanand Damodar

Tomas Christopher Gardiner

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to real-time debugging systems and methods. In one embodiment, a system that includes a server module and a client module can be provided. The server module can be executable on a first computer and can be adapted to use a native communications format for interactive transfer of industrial automation data between the first computer and at least one industrial automation element. The client module, which can be executable on the same computer as the server module or on a different computer, can include a debugging application configured to use a universal communications format for communicatively interacting with the server module for accessing the industrial automation data and debugging one or more programming portions associated with the industrial automation data.

Real-time debugging systems and methods

A system includes an industrial controller comprising a first processor. The first processor is configured to execute a substantially deterministic control process. The first processor is further configured to communicate with a second processor included in a communications interface system and communicatively coupled to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to communicate an asynchronous data to the second processor via an industrial communications protocol during the execution of the control process, and the second processor is configured to retrieve external data from an external system based on the asynchronous signal, and to communicate the external data to the control system via an Ethernet-based communications protocol.

Systems and methods for interfacing automation control systems to external systems

A system includes a first processor configured to intake a schema definition file. The schema definition file defines a set of rules that a data document must follow. The processor extracts one or more data adherence rules from the schema definition file and stores the extracted data adherence rules. Accordingly, subsequent data generation, configuration and/or validation of one or more system data objects may occur without requiring the creation of the data document.

Data validation using schema definition

A system includes a client system comprising a memory and a processor configured to execute a debugging tool. The debugging tool is communicatively coupled to an OPC Unified Architecture (UA) server. Furthermore, the debugging tool is configured to monitor and control, from the client system, debugging of an application executing on the OPC UA server.

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Christina Ann Romanik