Collaboration tools

US11733687B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Andrew R. Stump · Mentor, US
• Anthony Carrara · Strongsville, US
• Eashwer Srinivasan · Fremont, US
• Christopher W. Como · Chagrin Falls, US
• Sharon M. Billi-Duran · Euclid, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 2019
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2023
• Expiry date: Feb 3, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/32014
• 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. These collaborative features can include, for example, brokering between different sets of design input directed to the same portion of the system project, generating notifications to remote designers when a portion of the system project is modified, sharing of development interfaces or environments, facilitating involvement of outside technical support experts to assist with design issues, and other collaborative features.