Systems and methods for recurring industrial automation project design validation

A method, comprising:

• receiving an indication of a modification to a physically deployed industrial automation system, wherein the physically deployed industrial automation system comprises a plurality of physical devices configured to perform a plurality of operations within the physically deployed industrial automation system on an operational technology (OT) network, and wherein each of the plurality of physical devices comprises a compute surface configured to perform one or more software tasks;
• transmitting and deploying an executable container over the OT network to the respective compute surfaces of at least one of the plurality of physical devices;
• retrieving one or more sets of rules and a project code file for the physically deployed industrial automation system, wherein the project code file comprises a portion of code that represents a structure of the physically deployed industrial automation system and various functions of the physically deployed industrial automation system;
• determining, via the executable container executing locally on the respective compute surfaces of the at least one of the plurality of physical devices, that the modification complies with the one or more sets of rules;
• updating, via the executable container executing locally on the respective compute surfaces of the at least one of the plurality of physical devices, the project code file to reflect the modification to the physically deployed industrial automation system;
• and
• storing the updated project code file in memory.

A method, comprising:

• identifying a modification to a physically deployed industrial automation system, wherein the physically deployed industrial automation system comprises a plurality of physical devices configured to perform a plurality of operations within the physically deployed industrial automation system on an operational technology (OT) network, and wherein each of the plurality of physical devices comprises a compute surface configured to perform one or more software tasks;
• transmitting and deploying an executable container over the OT network to the respective compute surfaces of at least one of the plurality of physical devices;
• retrieving one or more sets of rule and a project code file for the physically deployed industrial automation system, wherein the project code file comprises a portion of code that represents a structure of the physically deployed industrial automation system and various functions of the physically deployed industrial automation system;
• determining, via the executable container executing locally on the respective compute surfaces of the at least one of the plurality of physical devices, that the modification complies with the one or more sets of rules;
• updating, via the executable container executing locally on the respective compute surfaces of the at least one of the plurality of physical devices, the project code file to reflect the modification to the physically deployed industrial automation system;
• and
• transmitting the updated project code file.