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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Sujeet Chand, Brookfield, WI (US);
Stephen C. Briant, Moon Township, PA (US);
Kenwood H. Hall, Hudson, OH (US);
Gavan W. Hood, Upper Lockyer, AU;
John J. Baier, Mentor, OH (US);
Michael D. Kalan, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Sujeet Chand, Brookfield, WI (US);
Stephen C. Briant, Moon Township, PA (US);
Kenwood H. Hall, Hudson, OH (US);
Gavan W. Hood, Upper Lockyer, AU;
John J. Baier, Mentor, OH (US);
Michael D. Kalan, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
An organizational model of a hierarchical system can be distributed across various elements of an enterprise. Such elements include representations of the system that are maintained on higher-level business servers and other representations that serve control elements of the system such as programmable logic controllers and/or other industrial control components. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes at least one controller to instantiate a portion of an organizational hierarchy. A communications component in the controller interacts with at least one other portion of the organizational hierarchy to facilitate data exchange and control between various components of an enterprise.