Industrial automation distributed project control with milestone rollback

US11656866B2 · 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
• Adam Gregory · Oak Creek, US
• Michael J Coan · Mentor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2021
• Grant date: May 23, 2023
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/36062
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. The industrial IDE also permits localized development of system projects, and provides an infrastructure for intelligently brokering between conflicting edits submitted to common portions of the system project. Project edits submitted to the IDE system, both applied and unapplied, are stored as edit records, allowing edits to be selectively undone or applied either manually or as part of a rollback to a milestone version.