Distributive deployment of process automation software applications

A system comprising one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• identify one or more constraints associated with execution of a process automation software application (FBAP);
• analyze, based on the one or more constraints, a process automation system that includes a plurality of process automation nodes;
• based on the analysis, select a subset of two or more process automation nodes, from the plurality of processing nodes, on which to distributively deploy the FBAP;
• and
• in response to selection of the subset:
• distributively deploy the FBAP across the two or more process automation nodes of the subset.

A system comprising one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• identify a plurality of function blocks that cooperate to implement a control loop within a process automation system, as well as one or more constraints of the control loop;
• analyze a plurality of candidate distributed control nodes (DCNs) of the process automation system to identify a subset of two or more DCNs, from the plurality of candidate DCNs, that collectively satisfy the one or more constraints of the control loop;
• and
• distributively deploy the plurality of function blocks across execution engines provided by the two or more DCNs of the subset.