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Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2006
Applicants:

George K. Schuster, Royal Oak, MI (US);

James E. Dogul, Hudson, NH (US);

Richard Galera, Nashua, NH (US);

George E. Rollins, Chelmsford, MA (US);

Derek W. Jones, Dumfries Galloway, GB;

Suresh R. Nair, Amherst, NH (US);

Ray C. Delcher, Oxnard, CA (US);

Inventors:

George K. Schuster, Royal Oak, MI (US);

James E. Dogul, Hudson, NH (US);

Richard Galera, Nashua, NH (US);

George E. Rollins, Chelmsford, MA (US);

Derek W. Jones, Dumfries Galloway, GB;

Suresh R. Nair, Amherst, NH (US);

Ray C. Delcher, Oxnard, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides industrial automation systems and/or methods that configure available redundancy. An interface component can obtain input data. Additionally, an optimization component can generate a voting configuration that allocates available redundancy to provide an optimized combination of safety and availability based at least in part on the input data.


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