US 12,607,988 B2Granted

Extensible profiles for industrial control modules

AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

InventorsScott A Pierce, Anthony J Diblasio, Michael D. Kalan

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Abstract

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) is designed to execute on a cloud-platform or a web-based platform. The IDE includes a library of device profiles that render graphical device configuration interfaces for reading and writing values of device parameters. To allow device profiles that were designed to operate within the context of a local, non-web-based IDE system to be used within the web-based IDE without the need to rewrite the device profiles or their associated services, the IDE can include a device service adapter that instantiates web services that translate the device configuration interfaces to a suitable web-based format, such as hypertext markup language. In this way, device profiles become agnostic with regard to the type of IDE platform in which the profiles are used.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for developing industrial control applications, comprising:

a memory that stores executable components;
and
a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising:
a user interface component configured to render, on a client device, development interfaces and to receive, via interaction with the development interfaces, design input comprising at least device configuration data for an industrial device;
and
a project generation component configured to generate control project data based on the design input,
wherein
the user interface component is further configured to, in response to selection of a device profile via interaction with the development interfaces, render, on the client device, a device configuration interface defined by the device profile,
the device configuration interface is configured to receive the device configuration data via interaction with the device configuration interface,
the device profile comprises a view component that defines a view of the device configuration interface and an add-on profile service that defines functionality of the device configuration interface,
the device profile is designed to render the device configuration interface within a non-web-based system for developing industrial applications based on the view component and the add-on profile service, and
the executable components further comprise a device profile adapter component configured to, in response to receipt of a request to render the device configuration interface within a web browser:
render a web-based version of the device configuration interface on the web browser as a web-based interface based on the view component, and
adapt the add-on profile service for operation on the web browser.

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A method, comprising:

rendering, by a system comprising a processor, a development interface on a web browser of a client device;
receiving, by the system via interaction with the development interface, design input comprising at least device configuration data for an industrial device;
and
generating, by the system, control project data based on the design input,
wherein
the rendering comprises, in response to receiving selection of a device profile from a library of device profiles, rendering a device configuration interface configured to receive the device configuration data via interaction with the device configuration interface,
the device profile comprises a view component that defines a view of the device configuration interface and an add-on profile service that defines functionality of the device configuration interface,
the device profile is designed to render, based on the view component and the add-on profile service, the device configuration interface within a non-web-based system for developing industrial applications, and
the method further comprises, in response to receiving the selection of the device profile via a web browser:
rendering a web-based version of the device configuration interface on the web browser as a web-based interface based on the view component;
and
initiating, by the system, services that adapt the add-on profile service of the device profile for operation within a web-based context of the web browser,
wherein the services translate the device configuration interface to a web-based format.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

rendering a development interface on a web browser of a client device;
receiving, via interaction with the development interface, design input comprising at least device configuration data for an industrial device;
and
generating control project data based on the design input,
wherein
the rendering comprises, in response to receiving selection of a device profile from a library of device profiles, rendering a device configuration interface configured to receive the device configuration data via interaction with the device configuration interface,
the device profile comprises a view component that defines a view of the device configuration interface and an add-on profile service that defines functionality of the device configuration interface,
the device profile is designed to render, based on the view component and the add-on profile service, the device configuration interface within a non-web-based system for developing industrial applications, and
the operations further comprise, in response to receiving the selection of the device profile via the web browser:
rendering a web-based version of the device configuration interface on the web browser as a web-based interface based on the view component;
and
initiating services that adapt the add-on profile service of the device profile for operation within the web browser,
wherein the services translate the device configuration interface to a web-based format.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/812,503Filed 14 Jul 2022
Published: US 2024/0019850 A118 Jan 2024
Granted: 21 Apr 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G05B 19/41845
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G06F 8/34
Creation or generation of source code: graphical or visual programming
G05B 19/4185
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 19/4188
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…