US 11,314,493 B1Granted

Industrial automation smart object inheritance

AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAndrew R Stump, Anthony Carrara, Eashwer Srinivasan, Srdjan Josipovic, Lorenzo P Majewski, Christopher Wayne Como, Christopher E Stanek, Matthew R Ericsson

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Abstract

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) provides a development framework for designing, programming, and configuring multiple aspects of an industrial automation system using a common design environment and data model. Projects creating using embodiments of the IDE system can be built on an object-based model rather than, or in addition to, a tag-based architecture. To this end, the IDE system can support the use of automation objects that serve as building blocks for this object-based development structure. To ensure consistency within and between projects, as well as to ensure that a given industrial project is dynamically updated to reflect changes to an industrial asset's attributes (e.g., control code, visualization definitions, testing scripts, analytic code, etc.), embodiments of the IDE system can use automation object inheritance features to propagate changes made to an automation object definition to all instances of the automation object used throughout a control project.

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A system for developing industrial applications, comprising:

a memory that stores executable components and a library of automation objects representing respective industrial assets, the automation objects having respective programmatic attributes associated with the industrial assets;
and
a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising:
a user interface component configured to render integrated development environment (IDE) interfaces and to receive, via interaction with the IDE interfaces, industrial design input that defines aspects of an industrial automation project;
and
a project generation component configured to generate system project data based on the industrial design input,
wherein
the system project data defines a system project comprising at least one of an executable industrial control program, an industrial visualization application, or industrial device configuration data,
the system project data further comprises an instance of an automation object selected from the automation objects stored in the library, and
the project generation component is further configured to, in response to receipt, via the user interface component, of object edit data that defines an edit to an attribute of the automation object, modify the automation object in the library and the instance of the automation object included in the system project data in accordance with the object edit data.

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A method for developing industrial applications, comprising:

rendering, by a system comprising a processor, integrated development environment (IDE) interfaces on a client device;
receiving, by the system via interaction with the IDE interfaces, industrial design input that defines aspects of an industrial control and monitoring project;
generating, by the system, system project data based on the industrial design input, wherein the generating comprises generating at least one of an executable industrial control program, an industrial visualization application, or industrial device configuration data, and the system project data comprises an instance of an automation object selected from a library of automation objects, the automation objects representing respective industrial assets and have respective programmatic attributes relating to the industrial assets;
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in response to receiving object edit data that defines an edit to an attribute of the automation object, modifying, by the system, the automation object in the library and the instance of the automation object included in the system project data in accordance with the object edit data.

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