Industrial automation project library cross sharing
US11899432B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 19, 2021 |
| Grant date | Feb 13, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 5, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/23424
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
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. These automation objects represent corresponding physical industrial assets and have associated programmatic attributes relating to those assets. Automation objects can be maintained in shared libraries that can be referenced by system projects. The IDE system can notify projects that reference these automation objects of updates to the object libraries, including edits to existing objects or addition of new objects.
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