Described are platforms, systems, and methods to discover subtended devices through introspection of executive or supervisory controllers. The platforms, systems, and methods maintain a plurality of introspection directives, each introspection directive comprising a sequence of instructions specific to a communications protocol, the sequence of instructions comprising instructions to send at least one command to at least one controller associated with an automation environment in accordance with the communications protocol, instructions to receive a response to the at least one command, and instructions to parse the response; identify an appropriate introspection directive for the at least one controller; and execute the sequence of instructions with respect to the at least one controller to perform operations comprising: sending at least one command to at least one controller; receiving a response; and parsing the response.

Embodiments of this present disclosure may include a system with a first power converter and a control system. The first power converter may supply a first current to a first backplane while a second power converter is concurrently supplying a second current to a second backplane. The first backplane and the second backplane may electrically couple to one or more load components and the control system. The control system may cause the first power converter to adjust the first current such that the first current and the second current are imbalanced with respect to each other in response to receiving a request to verify that the second power converter is capable of supplying the one or more load components with a target current value while the first current and the second current are imbalanced.

The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a PLC using a PC program, wherein a source code of a PLC program includes a data section, the data section including data indicating services to be exposed by the PLC when running the PLC program, wherein a source code of the PC program is automatically generated using the data included in the data section and a PC program template, wherein the PLC is controlled using the PC program generated from the automatically generated source code of the PC program.

A method includes acquiring state variables that characterize an operational state of an industrial plant; acquiring interaction events of a plant operator interacting with the distributed control system via a human-machine interface; determining based on the interaction events, and with state variables as input data, whether one or more interaction events are indicative of the plant operator executing a task that is not sufficiently covered by engineering of the distributed control system. When this determination is positive, mapping the input data to an amendment and/or augmentation for the engineering tool that has generated the application code.

An electric motor drive system is provided wherein safety is achieved by commanding the process system of the relevant axis or set of axes to execute motion that follows a defined path, namely trajectory of position, velocity and acceleration against time, re-constructing an identical trajectory in the safety system and in, the safety system, supervising deviations between the safely reconstructed target position and the safe measurement of position.

Described are platforms, systems, and methods for real-time enrichment of vertices, edges, and related data within a graph database. The platforms, systems, and methods maintain a graph database comprising a representation of a current state of an automation environment comprising a plurality of data sources, wherein the data sources are represented as vertices in the graph database and relationships between the individual data sources are represented as edges in the graph database; operate a plurality of software agents, each software agent configured to perform operations comprising: applying an algorithm to identify patterns in the graph database; and generating a specific data enrichment based on one or more identified patterns; and contribute the generated data enrichment back to the graph database.

Described are platforms, systems, and methods for real-time enrichment of vertices, edges, and related data within a graph database. The platforms, systems, and methods maintain a graph database comprising a representation of a current state of an automation environment comprising a plurality of data sources, wherein the data sources are represented as vertices in the graph database and relationships between the individual data sources are represented as edges in the graph database; operate a plurality of software agents, each software agent configured to perform operations comprising: applying an algorithm to identify patterns in the graph database; and generating a specific data enrichment based on one or more identified patterns; and contribute the generated data enrichment back to the graph database.

Various systems and methods may be used to implement a software defined industrial system. For example, an orchestrated system of distributed nodes may run an application, including modules implemented on the distributed nodes. The orchestrated system may include an orchestration server, a first node executing a first module, and a second node executing a second module. In response to the second node failing, the second module may be redeployed to a replacement node (e.g., the first node or a different node). The replacement mode may be determined by the first node or another node, for example based on connections to or from the second node.

A CPU module (100) includes a first bus complying with a first communication protocol, and a second bus complying with a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol. A conversion setting storage (110) included in the CPU module (100) stores information indicating association between a general instruction complying with the first communication protocol and a dedicated instruction complying with the second communication protocol. A protocol converter (160) included in the CPU module (100) acquires, when the general instruction is output by instruction output means to a device connected via the second bus, the dedicated instruction associated with the general instruction from the conversion setting storage (110) and provides the acquired dedicated instruction to the device via the second bus.

A surgical instrument for use by an operator in a surgical procedure includes an elongate shaft, an end effector extending from the elongate shaft, and a control system. The end effector is articulatable relative to the elongate shaft between a home state position and an articulated position. The control system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor to store program instructions. The processor can alert the operator when the end effector reaches the home state position from the articulated position.