Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Petr Pitrinec

Charles Martin Rischar

Michael J Viste

Filip Macurek

Ladislav Bumbalek

Stephen C Briant

Douglas Brian Sumerauer

Roman Vitek

Daniel Cernohorsky

Ho Lan Sabrina Chen

Michal Hanzeli

Martin Paulicek

Scott A Pierce

Patrick D Telljohann

Anthony J Diblasio

Eryn Amara Danielle Manela

Karol Szczupakowski

Zachary S Cruz

David E Preischel

Kevin R Sargent

Pawel Krzyzowski

Michael Viste

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) is designed to execute on a cloud-platform or a web-based platform. The IDE includes a library of device profiles that render graphical device configuration interfaces for reading and writing values of device parameters. To ensure correct binding of an instance of a device profile invoked on a client device and the corresponding physical device on the plant floor during runtime, the IDE system assigns a unique session identifier to each communication channel between a client-side profile instance and the corresponding physical device.

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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.

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Systems are provided for a 'loadable module' architecture for industrial controllers in which new control program modules which provide updated functions or features may be loaded to extend or modify the underlying operating system and/or other services without updating the firmware and without disrupting or otherwise compromising the ability of the industrial controller to maintain continuous control over the controlled process. Control program modules and libraries may be delivered to the industrial controller in object code format and an embedded linker in the industrial controller may be used to efficiently create fully linked and executable files locally. Loadable libraries may be provided to the industrial controller during runtime to extend functionality and/or provide desired fixes. As a result, a system is provided that is more efficient and that enables significant flexibility in adding new capabilities.

Techniques for improving industrial control systems

An alarm configuration system simplifies alarm management in industrial control systems by improving scalability and capacity of alarms. A control system device allows alarms to be configured by associating the alarm conditions with controller tags or other components of a control system. Properties of these alarm conditions can be referenced by external systems as well as programmatically as extensions of the associated controller tag or component. The alarm conditions are evaluated independently of the control program executed by the control device. A development system allows association of reusable user-defined alarm conditions with selected data types, such that the alarm conditions are automatically applied to controller tags of the selected data type. Selected alarm conditions can also be grouped into alarm sets, allowing operations to be performed collectively on the set of alarms. The system can also generate collective alarm statistics for the alarm conditions included in an alarm set.

Method to configure control system alarms by associating alarms to tags

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