Loading patent…
AssigneeRockwell Technologies, LLC
InventorsFrancisco P. Maturana, Rebecca J. Herr, David A. Vasko
Estimating the term…
An industrial control system uses a number of autonomous control units, each associated with one piece of equipment in an industrial process. The autonomous control units include data indicating not only their constraints of operation but also reflecting the constraints of operation of machines to which they are attached and with which they share common operating parameters. An autonomous controller associated with a machine having operating parameters in common with another machine adopts the intersection of the ranges of the machine constraint of the two machines. Machine constraints are preserved to the extent possible as ranges so as to permit flexibility in selecting and seeking goals by the individual autonomous control units.
An industrial control system for controlling an industrial process of interconnected machines operating to produce a manufactured product according to a job plan, the industrial control comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.