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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
May. 08, 1998
Marvin J Schwenke, Clinton Township, MI (US);
Raymond J Staron, Richmond Heights, OH (US);
James A Sinclair, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Paul F Franklin, Akron, OH (US);
Josiah C Hoskins, Austin, TX (US);
Rockwell Technologies, LLC, Thousands Oaks, CA (US);
Abstract
A system software solution for controlling an enterprise which defines and illustrates the electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, logic, diagnostics, external behavior, controlled resources and safety elements of an enterprise control system. The elements of the control system are encapsulated in objects of an object-oriented framework within a control assembly. The control assembly is the fundamental building block for providing object-oriented control of the enterprise. A control assembly component is a deployable control subsystem that provides an interface using a common object model that is configurable. The enterprise control system is used to define user interfaces including sequence charts that are updated in a substantially realtime manner utilizing the control assemblies associated with the generated code for the enterprise control system.