Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam

Douglas J Reichard

Nicholas J Marangoni

Deepa S Bekal

Juergen K Weinhofer

Stephen C Briant

Sonal R Dubey

Paul C Whitten

Subbian Govindaraj

Tim S Biernat

David Alan Vasko

Kenneth William Batcher

Timothy S Biernat

Ike C Mao

Dan W Guendelsberger

Brian J Gelly

Blockchain-enabled digital twins for industrial automation systems (e.g., using a computerized tool) are enabled. For example, a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to execution, cause an industrial device comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: determining an equivalency of the configuration of the industrial automation component based on a comparison of the first configuration fingerprint with a second configuration fingerprint of the configuration of the industrial automation component generated at a second time, subsequent to the first time, determining an equivalency of the configuration of the industrial automation component based on a comparison of the first configuration fingerprint with a second configuration fingerprint of the configuration of the industrial automation component generated at the second time, and generating an output indicative of the equivalency of the digital twin and the equivalency of the configuration.

Blockchain-enabled digital twins for industrial automation systems

Industrial blockchain enabled automation control (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a memory that stores executable components, a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising: a minting component that, based on a manufacturing criterion associated with a product being determined to be satisfied, mints a non-fungible token associated with the product, wherein the non-fungible token comprises authenticity data representative of a birth certificate for the product, and a blockchain component that registers the non-fungible token with a blockchain.

Industrial blockchain enabled automation control

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

Managing blockchains for multiple components in an industrial facility

Subscription-based services using industrial blockchains

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Mayfield Heights, OH, United States of America

Sharath Chander Reddy Baddam