Systems and methods for conducting communications among components of multidomain industrial automation system

A method of communicating between a control-level module and an enterprise-level module, the method comprising:

• receiving a first message in accordance with a first protocol from the control-level module at a receive manager of a bridge device;
• sending a second message from the bridge device back to the control-level module when the bridge device has determined that the first message has been successfully received;
• analyzing the first message at a transaction manager of the bridge device so as to determine an adapter suitable for enabling further communication of the first message to the enterprise-level module;
• and
• communicating a third message based upon the first message to the enterprise-level module through the use of the adapter.