Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Allen-bradley Company, LLC

Rockwell Technologies, Inc.

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Sito Processing LLC

David Dale Brandt

Wayne H Wielebski

Ramdas M Pai

Craig D Anderson

Brian Alan Batke

David Lee Jensen

Dayin Xu

Steven J Scott

Mark Burton Anderson

Thong T Nguyen

Michael Lee Gasperi

David Alan Vasko

David W Farchmin

Michael A Bush

Yutao Wang

Robert E Lounsbury

Dennis C Mackey

Guolin Zhang

Kenwood H Hall

Philip John Kaufman

John C Wilkinson

Robert Neil Whiteman, Jr

Earl William McCleerey

Jie Shen

Yi Qiang Yu

David W Siegler

Christopher Wayne Como

Taryl Jon Jasper

Charles Martin Rischar

Gary Dan Dotson

Robert J Kretschmann

Sujeet Chand

Brian J Taylor

Richard Arthur Morgan

Glenn B Schulz

Wojciech Koczwara

Scott T Griffiths

Bryan L Singer

George Bradford Collins

Mark E Davidsz

Angel Sustaeta

Clifford J Whitehead, Jr

Douglas M Walburn

Robert W Walker

Michael E Shirk

Neil Gollhardt

Chirag L Malkan

Ondrej Flek

Tony Gibart

Gregg M Sichner

Suresh Ramanujan Nair

Haihui Lu

John Patrick Caspers

Steven T Haensgen

Jonathan R Engdahl

Chester Malkowski

Zhen Wei

Steven A Lombardi

Kyle A Crum

Michael Robert Keller

Noel Henderson

William Howell Martin

Jerry Michael Watkins

Linglai Li

David T Rollay

G Erich Heberlein, Jr

Alvaro Sanchez

David Bradly Berman

Rebecca R Jaeger

Benfeng Tang

Patrick K Duffy

Yanbin Zhang

Phillip R Bush

Shawn L Adams

Qing Jia

Yi Yu

Ping Soon Lee

Fred M Discenzo

Danny L Carnahan

Sean Charles Schmelzer

Katherine Sokolnicki

Fahed Hasan Awad

Neal R Krejci

Marek Mossakowski

Timothy F Roback

Jianguo Zhuang

Fahed Awad

Xiaofeng Shi

Vaithianathan Jothi

David B Jensen

Steven R McLaughlin

Richard F Miller

Albert P Demers, Jr

Caleb J Palagyi

Joseph M Futey

Brian R Campbell

Goulin Zhang

Ramadas M Pai

Zhentian Xie

Jeffrey A Shearer

A common-mode interference dissipation circuit to provide circuitry immunity to electrical interference, such as common mode impedance interference, is described herein. The common-mode interference dissipation circuit may include one or more variable resistors each having a first terminal and a second terminal and a capacitor coupled in series with the one or more variable resistors and having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the one or more variable resistors may be coupled to a port of the first set of ports, the second terminal of the one or more variable resistors may be coupled to the first terminal of the capacitor, and the second terminal of the capacitor may be coupled to a chassis in an industrial automation environment.

Common mode termination matching method for digital communications

For automatic device addressing, a processor configures each node device on a serial network for an order measurement. The processor further measures an order parameter for each of the node devices. The processor determines an order number of each of the node devices based on the order parameter for the node device.

Automatic device ordering

An industrial Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) system and method for connecting devices within an industrial automation system is provided. The industrial SPE system comprises a trunkline formed by a series of trunk cables, where each trunk cable includes a power pair and an SPE pair, and one or more taps connected between the trunk cables of the trunkline. The industrial SPE system further comprises a drop line connected to each of the one or more taps, and a device connected to each of one or more taps via the drop lines. The device is an actuator or a sensor, and at least one of the device and the one or more taps includes a dual-port SPE switch.

On-machine industrial SPE network system and method

For a bi-directional bus topology, a node connection includes two select line connections for a select line of a serial network. The select line is broken at the node connection. A bus direction module configures a first select line connection for an input line and a second select line connection for an output line in response to detecting a selection event. At least a portion of the bus direction module includes one or more of hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on a memory.

Bi-directional bus topology

For device configuration and monitoring, a processor receives configuration settings from an electronic device via the electronic device interface. The processor converts the configuration settings to hardware settings for a target device. The processor communicates the hardware settings to the target device via a target device interface.

Adapter for device configuration and monitoring

A connector for receiving a ribbon cable is provided. The connector includes a housing with an open top, and a cable organizer configured to be positioned within an interior of the housing and the open top and to receive the ribbon cable. The cable organizer includes a surface with a first cable grab hook adjacent a first end thereof, configured to receive a first portion of the ribbon cable via a snap-fit engagement. The connector also includes cover configured to selectively cover the open top of the housing to enclose the cable organizer within the interior of the housing. The cover includes a notch extending therethrough, sized to receive an upper detent of the cable organizer so that the upper detent extends through the notch and remains viewable when the cover encloses the cable organizer within the interior of the housing.

Systems and methods for a cable connector

A connector for receiving a ribbon cable is provided. The connector includes a housing including an open top, a cable organizer, and a cover. The cable organizer is configured to be positioned within an interior of the housing and configured to receive the ribbon cable upon an upper surface thereof. The cover is configured to selectively cover the open top of the housing to enclose the cable organizer within the interior of the housing. The cover is coupled to the housing and includes a latch configured to engage the housing and the cable organizer and move in a both vertical direction relative to the housing and rotate relative to the housing.

A system may include a first device that has a first network component and a second device that has a second network component. The second network component may receive a data packet from the first network component based at least in part on a network address, where the network address is generated based at least in part on a location of the first device.

Generating location-based addresses for wireless network communication

A multidrop cable may include multiple nodes electrically coupled thereon. The nodes may each include a respective PCB layer and a respective connector. The connector may provide connection between the transmission lines of the multidrop cable and the PCB layer. The PCB layer may include circuitry to reduce an induced noise of the multidrop cable by adding twist to the respective signals of the transmission lines. The PCB layer may also preserve the characteristic impedance of the multidrop cable by providing inductance in series between the respective signals of the transmission lines.

System and method for incorporating an inline inductor into a connector

Automation security in a networked-based industrial controller environment is implemented. Various components, systems and methodologies are provided to facilitate varying levels of automation security in accordance with security analysis tools, security validation tools and/or security learning systems. The security analysis tool receives abstract factory models or descriptions for input and generates an output that can include security guidelines, components, topologies, procedures, rules, policies, and the like for deployment in an automation security network. The validation tools are operative in the automation security network, wherein the tools perform security checking and/or auditing functions, for example, to determine if security components are in place and/or in suitable working order. The security learning system monitors/learns network traffic patterns during a learning phase, fires alarms or events based upon detected deviations from the learned patterns, and/or causes other automated actions to occur.

System and methodology providing automation security analysis and network intrusion protection in an industrial environment

For energy operations across domains, a method generates a native node and a foreign node that includes a foreign data structure that is defined with a foreign protocol and that represents information of a foreign device in a foreign namespace. The method links the native node and the foreign node in a native namespace and the foreign namespace by a translation function that automatically converts information between the foreign data structure and the proxy data structure using protocol specific structure converting functions. The method further establishes a first publish/subscription instance with message middleware for the foreign device as publisher of the first publish/subscription instance. The method translates a message from the foreign device using the communication stack.

Energy operations across domains

A system is provided in which a position for each device (relative to other devices) in a topology, and a corresponding device ID for each device, may be predetermined. Then, the predetermined position and corresponding device ID for each device may be compared to actual devices in a topology having preprogrammed device ID's and pre-assigned IP addresses. If the comparison produces a match, the pre-assigned IP addresses in the actual devices may be utilized. However, if the comparison does not produce a match, the condition may be reported for further action.

Internet protocol (IP) addressing using an industrial control program

IP addresses may be allocated to devices in an industrial control system by applying starting address information in combination with each device's relative position in a local network. The starting address information, which may include an IP subnet address, gateway address, subnet mask, subnet size, and/or local network group identifier, may be provided to a first positioned, or 'initiator,' device in a local network. The initiator device may determine its IP address by applying the starting address information and knowledge of being the first positioned device. The initiator device may send the position information and at least a portion of the starting address information to a next device, which may determine its relative position based on the received position information, and which may apply its relative position with the portion of the starting address information to determine its IP address. This process may continue sequentially for each device.

Topology based internet protocol (IP) addressing

An energy monitoring system includes a memory storing instructions to execute an energy modeling technique and processing circuitry for executing the instructions to operate the energy modeling technique. The energy modeling technique includes receiving energy data from a plurality of segments representative of one or more logical subgroups. The energy modeling technique includes categorizing the energy data of the logical subgroups into a plurality of segments. The energy modeling technique includes organizing the plurality of segments into a plurality of state-based hierarchical levels. The energy modeling technique includes calculating energy usage and factors associated with the plurality of state-based hierarchical levels via an energy model. The energy modeling technique includes outputting a visualization representative of the energy data corresponding to each of the segments to a monitoring and control system, resulting in a graphical representation accessible by a user-viewable screen.

State-based hierarchy energy modeling

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