Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Allen-bradley Company, LLC

David J Lillie

Jessica Lin Korpela

Eric Rehl

Barry M Jereb

Amit R Sathe

Jayme C Edwards

Jeffrey L Kibbey

Lisa J Smith

Brian Gilbert Riviere

Kelly P Hanaway

The technology disclosed herein enables automation of component sourcing when designing a process system in an industrial environment. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving design specifications of a process system in an industrial environment via a system design application. The method further includes determining components to implement the process system from the design specifications and identifying a first subset of the components for sourcing from an external provider. The method also includes populating the first subset into a component sourcing application.

Automated component sourcing based on process system design

Automated component sourcing based on process systems design

The present invention relates to systems and methods that provide a portal user with role-based access to components on a network via portlets within the portal. The role-based access can be sharable such that one or more users with a similar role can instantiate instances of a shared portal. Sharable configurations can be stored local to the user's portal, local to another portal and/or within a networked storage medium. The access provides a user with an entry-point to components, wherein a user can monitor and control components. The user can additionally configure the portal such that the component access is further based on the user's location. Advantages of the present invention include delineation of access and administrative functionality, the ability to combine web and application servers within a similar environment, and the ability to access (e.g., controlling, collecting and analyzing data, etc.) when the user is not utilizing the portal.

Systems and methods for sharing portal configurations

An interface for an industrial control system provides, at a server side, a set of objects for programmer use. Instances of object provider objects, linked to each of the software objects, provide a uniform interface for the software objects allowing software objects from different vendors to be used while preserving a common programmer interface.

Industrial controller interface providing standardized object access to proprietary software objects that interact with industrial controllers

Industrial controller interface providing standardized object access

A method to be used with a programmable controller that can communicate with peripheral devices in two protocols, the method for automatically switching controller communication between the two protocols when the protocol used by a peripheral device is different than the protocol currently being used by the controller.

Most recent first dynamic protocol detection for use with a programmable

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David J Lillie