Industrial controller automation interface

A method of providing local and/or remote access to one or more industrial controllers comprising:

• providing an automation interface along with computer process interfaces as an executable file to local or remote processes for access to one or more industrial controllers;
• and
• providing a selectable user interface for the automation interface where the selection can be made from one of visible and invisible.

A computer readable medium having computer-executable components comprising;

• an automation interface component wherein a user interface is selectable from one of visible and invisible and an automation interface facilitates programming, monitoring and maintenance of at least an industrial controller programmatically from a local or remote location;
• and
• an interface library comprising object-oriented based objects and classes compiled into the automation interface component, the interface library exposing the automation interface component to client application processes.