System for managing an industrial workflow

A system for managing an industrial workflow comprising:

• a plurality of asset tags, each asset tag of the plurality of asset tags associated with a corresponding asset of a group of assets;
• a plurality of reader nodes for distribution in an industrial environment, each reader node of the plurality of reader nodes comprising:
• at least one Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio configured to receive data from a corresponding set of devices including a plurality of peripheral devices and any of the plurality of asset tags within a communication range of that reader node, and
• a communications manager in communication with the at least one BLE radio;
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• a cloud server configured to be in communication with the communications managers of the plurality of reader nodes and comprising:
• a location services module configured to determine locations for the group of assets based on known locations of a set of reader nodes of the plurality of reader nodes and based on data received from at least one BLE radio of at least one reader node of the plurality of reader nodes via the associated communications manager, wherein the data received is from the corresponding set of devices within the communication range of the at least one BLE radio of the at least one reader node;
• a process and workflow editor configured to enable a user to edit a process flow and rules library to define how different types of assets are expected to move through a facility and to define actions to take based on determined movements of the different types of assets in order to generate a user defined process and workflow plan for the group of assets, the process flow and rules library based at least in part on a directed graph having nodes corresponding to logical locations within the process flow or the workflow plan;
• a real-time compute engine configured to interpret the user defined process and workflow plan and to generate a sequence of events for at least one asset of the group of assets and to determine whether a trigger event has occurred based in part on one or more determined locations of the group of assets and data associated with any peripheral devices at one or more of the determined locations of the group of assets;
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• a real-time track and trace module configured to determine a deviation between a measured travel path for the at least one asset of the group of assets and a defined travel path for the at least one asset, the defined travel path corresponding to the user defined process and workflow plan.