Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Eryn Amara Danielle Manela

Roman Vitek

Taryl Jon Jasper

Charles Martin Rischar

Scott A Pierce

Clark L Case

Petr Pitrinec

Patrick D Telljohann

Anthony J Diblasio

Radek Bartman

Michal Hanzeli

Martin Paulicek

An industrial topology discovery system autonomously discovers and documents industrial automation system topologies using orchestrated discovery agents of various types. The topology discovery system can reside on a cloud platform or another high level network and deploy discovery agents on plant networks and devices within an industrial facility. These discovery agents can implement different strategies for discovering system information, and can include agents configured to monitor and report on communication traffic across respective types of networks, agents configured to probe respective device types for identity and configuration information, and other types of agents. Discovery services executed by the topology discovery system can collect device and network information obtained by the agents and use this information to document the topology of the automation system as well as to orchestrate the discovery behavior of the agents to extract further information about the system based on defined discovery rules.

Industrial automation system topology with point to point representation paths

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) can dynamically generate user interfaces for device profiles using predefined reusable profile templates together with data models of the devices for which the device profile interfaces are to be created. The device profile template defines features or components of profile interface views that are reusable across multiple different devices. The industrial IDE determines which interface features defined by the device profile template are required to support the device's data and supported features defined by the data model, and dynamically adapts the device profile template to yield a suitable device profile interface that can be used to view and edit the device's data and configuration parameter values.

Presentation design dynamic generation from data model server

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Cleveland Heights, OH, United States of America

Eryn Amara Danielle Manela