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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2023
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Anthony Carrara, Strongsville, OH (US);
Shawn O. Stuart, West Chester, OH (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a request to deploy a container within an industrial automation system to perform a data processing task, wherein the industrial automation system includes a plurality of devices each having a compute surface configured to perform one or more software tasks, retrieve a project code file for the industrial automation system that represents a structure of the industrial automation system, one or more functions of the industrial automation system, and computing resources available within the industrial automation system, identify, based on the data processing task and the project code file, a respective compute surface of a particular device of the plurality of devices to which to deploy the container, and deploy the container to the respective compute surface of the particular device to perform the data processing task.