Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Jeffrey Scott Martin

John Patrick Caspers

William Howell Martin

Dayin Xu

Jes Asmussen

Tao Song

Zhen Wei

Linglai Li

David W Siegler

Benfeng Tang

David Bradly Berman

Eric Allen Norrod

Liz V Bahl Prosak

Bingchao Tang

John P Casper

Embodiments of this present disclosure may include a system that includes a first network device. The first network device may perform an operation according to a device configuration file. The system may also include a second network device that directly communicatively couples to the first network device through a peer-to-peer (P-P) communication network. The second network device may include a backup file of the device configuration file. The second network device may transmit the backup file of the device configuration file to the first network device in response to detecting that the first network device is lacking the device configuration file.

Peer-level control of industrial automation system components

A method of motor control device emulation includes receiving, via a network-enabled motor control device, a communication request corresponding to an emulated motor control device. The method further includes modifying the communication request to match an expected communication request. Additionally, the method includes providing a modified communication request to an associated hardware module within the network-enabled motor control device. Further, the expected communication request is based on the network-enabled motor control device.

Systems and methods for emulating a network device

For function block framework generation, a method generates a function block framework for a hardware device. The function block framework includes function block framework source code and a function block framework description. The hardware device includes a logic engine and automation hardware. The function block framework presents a standard interface to a function block core executed by the logic engine. The method instantiates the function block framework and the function block core as an executable image for the hardware device. The method further configures the logic engine to execute the executable image using the function block framework description. The method executes the executable image with the logic engine.

Function block framework generation

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Waukesha, WI, United States of America

Jeffrey Scott Martin