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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2022
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Anthony Carrara, Strongsville, OH (US);
Lorenzo P. Majewski, Waukesha, WI (US);
Christopher E. Stanek, Willoughby, OH (US);
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports decoupled development of industrial control programs without requiring the programs to be initially bound to a specific industrial controller. The IDE system allows industrial control programs to be defined as smart objects within an industrial control project. These smart objects can be created without an initial binding to an industrial controller, and can subsequently be assigned to selected industrial controllers after development of the control programs is complete, or while program development is in progress. The IDE system can export executable content allocated to a selected controller definition as a project file formatted to be compatible with a configuration application specific to the controller type of the selected controller definition.