Layered interface in an industrial environment

US8732658B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kenneth S. Plache · Scottsdale, US
• Daniel B. Seger · Kennesaw, US
• Raymond J. Staron · Richmond Heights, US
• Robert J. Kretschmann · Bay Village, US
• Taryl J. Jasper · South Euclid, US
• James Harry Jarrett · Baltimore, US
• Russell W. Brandes · Brunswick, US
• Ronald E. Bliss · Twinsburg, US
• Michael D. Kalan · Highland Heights, US
• Subbian Govindaraj · Solon, US
• Kenwood H. Hall · Hudson, US
• Douglas J. Reichard · Fairview Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2010
• Grant date: May 20, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

System(s) and method(s) are provided for implementing a set of interface components across a set of layers of an industrial environment, and for managing at least one interface component or at least one layer of the industrial environment. To implement an interface component in at least one layer in the set of layers, a specification that defines the interface component is acquired and, based at least on the specification, a service is generated. Execution of the service implements the interface component. The managing includes deploying or discovering the at least one interface component or the at least one layer of the industrial environment. The managing also includes indexing specific functional feature(s) of the at least one interface component and searching across the set of layers for one or more interface components that satisfy specific functional criteria. Moreover, the managing can include supplying metadata related to interface component(s) or layer(s).