Automatic controller relationship resolution

A method capable of implementation upon an industrial control configuration, comprising:

• determining if a supplemental binding is at least partially erroneous through alteration of a primary binding;
• modifying the supplemental binding such that the supplemental binding is no longer erroneous if the supplement binding is determined to be at least partially erroneous;
• and
• bringing online in the industrial control configuration the alteration of the primary binding and the modified supplemental binding at a substantially equal time.

A computer program embodied upon a computer-readable storage medium comprising:

• program code for collecting metadata related to a runtime binding change in a controller relationship in an online industrial control configuration;
• and
• program code for resolving at least one dependent relationship that depends from the controller relationship, wherein the at least one dependent relationship requires resolution based upon the runtime binding change;
• and
• program code for activating in the online industrial control configuration the runtime binding change and the resolved at least one dependent relationship within a time window tolerance of each other.