Gateway and method for transforming a description of an industrial process equipment into a data information model

A gateway for transforming a description of industrial process equipment into a semantically enriched and graph-based data information model for automation purposes within an industrial environment supporting an open industry standard, the gateway comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• parse information entities in the description of the industrial process equipment by a field communication protocol;
• transform the parsed information entities into Datalog declarative logic facts and assert the Datalog declarative logic facts within a deductive database;
• and
• using a knowledge engine configured as a Datalog Engine and a mapping knowledge base, apply mapping rules to the Datalog declarative logic facts, wherein the mapping rules are structured in a hierarchical fashion so as to utilize a reusability, and wherein the Datalog declarative logic facts are deductively mapped onto the graph-based data information model;
• and
• an interface configured to access a graph-based data object model,
• wherein the semantically enriched and graph-based data information model is an open platform communications (OPC) unified architecture (UA) information model, and
• wherein a mapping rule is applied for creating an OPC UA Base Node Class using attributes taken from a corresponding variable in the description of the industrial process equipment.