Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Rockwell Automated Technologies, Inc.

Douglas J Reichard

Taryl Jon Jasper

Michael D Kalan

Kenneth Scott Plache

Subbian Govindaraj

Ronald Eric Bliss

Clifton Harold Bromley

Kevin George Gordon

Michael John Pantaleano

Sujeet Chand

Rainer Hessmer

David W Farchmin

Joseph A Harkulich

Douglas C Lawson

James Harry Jarrett

Russell William Brandes

Joseph Bronikowski

Steven John Kowal

Jessica Lin Korpela

Jonathan D Walter

Scott N Sandler

Ryan Cahalane

Kenwood H Hall

Christopher Wayne Como

Robert J Kretschmann

Raymond John Staron

Eric G Dorgelo

Shafin A Virji

Daniel Baliey Seger

Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam

Marc D Semkow

John Joseph Baier

Kyle K Reissner

Robert Joseph McGreevy

Christopher E Stanek

Bruce T McCleave, Jr

Edward Anthony Gray

Mark David Hobbs

Teunis Hendrik Schouten

Douglas W Reid

Mohit Singhai

Charles Martin Rischar

Bruce Gordan Fuller

Nicholas J Marangoni

Deepa S Bekal

Sharon M Billi-Duran

Stephen C Briant

Juergen K Weinhofer

Keith M Hogan

Sonal R Dubey

Bruce A Christensen

Sharon M Billi

Paul C Whitten

Diane N Ritchie

Matthew Robert Ericsson

Tim S Biernat

Jeffery William Brooks

Reginald W Sprecher

John Ethan Belcher

Mark E Taylor

Thomas G Rodano

Daniel S DeYoung

Michael Ohlsen

Ike C Mao

Dan W Guendelsberger

Brian J Gelly

Rae M Varga

Unni M Heineking

Holly E Johnson

Bruce Gordon Fuller

Benjamin R Henderson

Jacob Strickler Baker

Anthony J Cachat

Steven A Zuponcic

David Thomas

Michael Silvestro

Kevin Carl Smith

Carol A Knez

Kevin D Krueger

Matthew Delisle

Kim L Skippers

Rae M White

Joseph Balistrieri

Jason M Lee

Joseph Broniskowski

Russel W Brandes

James H Jarrett

W Douglas Reid

Mohit Shinghai

Systems, methods, and software disclosed herein relate to a common gateway platform system. In an implementation, program instructions direct a computing system to execute a common gateway platform environment comprising an adapter comprising an adapter name identification, a broker connected to the adapter, and an application connected to the adapter. The application also generates an action configured according to a common gateway platform protocol, transmit the action to the broker, and receive a reaction from the broker. The broker is configured to identify the adapter based on the adapter identifier and transmit the action to the adapter. The broker also receives the reaction from the adapter and transmit the reaction to the application. The adapter is configured to acquire the data from the industrial automation environment based on an adapter instruction in the action, generate the reaction comprising the acquired data, and transmit the reaction to the broker.

Common gateway platform

Techniques to facilitate interactions with industrial devices in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a realtime communication connection is established through a common gateway platform to an industrial controller. A realtime notification message is received comprising industrial data and display instructions encoded into a text string generated by the industrial controller, the display instructions comprising display properties for the industrial data that specify how to display the industrial data on a computing device. The text string is processed to generate and render a display of the industrial data for display on the computing device according to the display properties provided in the display instructions.

Mobile scalable compute module

Blockchain-enabled industrial devices and associated systems are configured to support the use of industrial blockchains in connection with product and machine tracking, subscription-based industrial services, device lifecycle management, and other functions. Collections of industrial devices can collectively serve as an industrial blockchain system, with multiple such systems within a supply chain yielding an industrial blockchain ecosystem. This architecture can create distributed, decentralized, tamper-proof records of manufacturing statistics for a product, a product's history within the larger supply chain, industrial asset usage histories that can be leveraged in connection with lifecycle management, machine usage history for use in connection with subscription-based machine operation, and other such information. The blockchain-enabled industrial devices can be configured to generate multiple versions of a product or machine's blockchain having respective different access permissions, allowing public and private industrial data to be segregated between public and private industrial blockchains.

Managing blockchains in an industrial facility based on firmware change

A cloud gateway for coupling an industrial system to a cloud platform is provided. The cloud gateway collects data from one or more industrial controllers, meters, sensors, or other devices comprising an industrial automation system. The cloud gateway optionally performs additional transformations on the data to add context, summarize, filter, reformat, and/or encrypt the data. The cloud gateway then sends data to a cloud platform for use by one or more cloud-based applications or services. The cloud gateway can facilitate cloud-based data collection from both fixed-location and mobile industrial systems. The cloud gateway can also support store-and-forward logic, allowing industrial data to be temporarily stored in local storage in the event that communication between the cloud gateway and the cloud platform is disrupted.

Cloud gateway for industrial automation information and control systems

An automation control system is provided that includes one or more components. The components include an embedded execution engine that is configured to execute one or more commands based upon data communicated to the one or more components from another component of the automation control system. The data is representative of a change to an object in the control system.

Control environment command execution

Techniques to facilitate identification of industrial equipment using micro-location services in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, an identification signal is detected transmitted from a wireless transceiver associated with an asset of the industrial automation environment. The identification signal is processed to determine an identity of the asset. A level of proximity of the portable computing system to the wireless transceiver is detected. Information associated with the asset is retrieved based on the identity of the asset. The information associated with the asset is displayed on a display system of a computing system based on the level of proximity.

Identification of industrial equipment using micro-location services

Techniques to facilitate programming industrial control systems to operate machinery in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a user interface is displayed for a control program editor comprising programming logic associated with at least one machine system. Operational data associated with operating the at least one machine system controlled by an industrial controller executing the programming logic is received. The programming logic and the operational data are processed to determine contextual associations between the programming logic and the operational data. In the user interface for the control program editor, the operational data is displayed in context with the programming logic associated therewith based on the contextual associations.

Presentation of graphical visualizations and control mechanisms in-line with programming logic

A cloud-based operator interface system is provided that runs as a cloud service on a cloud platform. The cloud-based operator interface system collects industrial data from one or more industrial systems via respective cloud gateway devices. A set of predefined operator interface screens are stored on cloud storage associated with the operator interface system, and delivered to authorized Internet-capable client devices upon request. The industrial data received from the cloud gateways can be delivered to the client devices from the cloud platform via the operator interface screens. Additional cloud-side services can correlate and analyzes the industrial data on the cloud platform to facilitate additional reporting, alarming, and notification features.

Cloud-based operator interface for industrial automation

Managing blockchains for multiple components in an industrial facility

The subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to industrial automation systems, and, more particularly, to collecting video streams from a variety of video devices in an industrial environment, identifying and analyzing potential problems in the industrial environment using the video streams, and presenting the video streams and data associated with the potential problem to appropriate recipients.

Analyzing video streams in an industrial environment to identify potential problems and select recipients for a display of video streams related to the potential problems

Subscription-based services using industrial blockchains

Growing community of inventors

Fairview Park, OH, United States of America

Douglas J Reichard