System model smart object configuration

US11586186B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Andrew R. Stump · Mentor, US
• Anthony Carrara · Strongsville, US
• Eashwer Srinivasan · Fremont, US
• Srdjan Josipovic · Beachwood, US
• Lorenzo Majewski · Milwaukee, US
• Christopher W. Como · Chagrin Falls, US
• Christopher E. Stanek · Mayfield Heights, US
• Matthew R. Ericsson · Lyndhurst, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 17, 2021
• Grant date: Feb 21, 2023
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/36
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) provides a development framework for designing, programming, and configuring multiple aspects of an industrial automation system using a common design environment and data model. Projects creating using embodiments of the IDE system can be built on an object-based model rather than, or in addition to, a tag-based architecture. To this end, the IDE system can support the use of automation objects that serve as building blocks for this object-based development structure. Project data models defining collections of automation objects and their functional relationships can be stored in a model library for selective inclusion in system projects.