Described are platforms, systems, and methods to discover relationships among equipment in automated industrial or commercial environments by looking for synchrony in state changes among the equipment. The platforms, systems, and methods identify a plurality of data sources associated with an automation environment; detect one or more events or one or more state changes in the data sources; store the detected events or state changes; detect synchrony in the detected events or state changes by performing operations comprising: identifying combinatorial pairs of data sources having an event or state change within a predetermined time window; and conducting pairwise testing for each identified combinatorial pair of data sources by applying an algorithm to the stored detected events or state changes; and determine one or more relationships for at least one identified combinatorial pair of data sources.

A method for integrating a further bus subscriber into a bus system, and a bus system, having a master module and subscribers disposed in series, includes the temporally consecutive method steps: in a first method step, the further bus subscriber transmits a data packet to the master module in order to log in to the master module, in a second method step, a bus subscriber disposed between the further bus subscriber and the master module stops the data packet and checks whether the bus system has already received a release, in a third method step, the first bus subscriber forwards the data packet to the master module if the bus system has not yet received a release, or in a third, in particular an alternative, method step, if the bus system has already received a release, the bus subscriber stores the data packet and waits until the release of the bus system is revoked and after the release has been revoked, forwards the stored data packet to the master module.

Described are platforms, systems, and methods for mapping data found in connected equipment from a manufacturer's selected schema, format, and protocol to a normalized data model. The platforms, systems, and methods identify a plurality of data sources associated with an automation environment; retrieve data from at least one of the identified data sources; generate a plurality of data source mapping profiles, each data source mapping profile specific to a particular data source configuration; maintain a data store comprising the plurality of data source mapping profiles; select a data source mapping profile specific to the at least one identified data source configuration; and apply an algorithm to map the retrieved data to a predetermined ontology based on the selected data source mapping profile for the at least one identified data source.

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.

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.

A device includes a master device, a set of slave devices and a bus. The master device is configured to transmit first messages carrying a set of operation data message portions indicative of operations for implementation by slave devices of the set of slave devices, and second messages addressed to slave devices in the set of slave devices. The second messages convey identifiers identifying respective ones of the slave devices to which the second messages are addressed requesting respective reactions towards the master device within respective expected reaction intervals. The slave devices are configured to receive the first messages transmitted from the master device, read respective operation data message portions in the set of operation data message portions, implement respective operations as a function of the respective operation data message portions read, and receive the second messages transmitted from the master device.

Provided is a subject device comprising: a control permission issuance part for issuing a new control permission each time a control permission issuance request is received from any of a plurality of control devices, and for returning information of the new control permission to the control device having transmitted the issuance request; a control permission management part for managing the control permissions such that only one among the issued control permissions is valid and the other issued control permissions are invalid; and a mutual exclusion part for, upon receipt, from any of the plurality of control devices, of a control commencement request to which the information of the control permission has been appended, verifying whether the control permission appended to the control commencement request is valid, allowing exclusive control by the control device having transmitted the control commencement request if the control permission is valid, and denying control by the control device having transmitted the control commencement request if the control permission is invalid.

The present invention enables displaying a Gantt chart that is capable of displaying the implementation status of a work process for each order by a display method in which visibility is not compromised even when there are many orders. A Web server (10) causes display of a Gantt chart in which a block (Bl), representing a work time (Ot) required to complete each of a plurality of work processes (Pr) for each product (Ar), is marked with a color so as to make it possible to identify an order (Or) that includes the product (Ar).

Described are platforms, systems, and methods for mapping data found in connected equipment from a manufacturer's selected schema, format, and protocol to a normalized data model. The platforms, systems, and methods identify a plurality of data sources associated with an automation environment; retrieve data from at least one of the identified data sources; generate a plurality of data source mapping profiles, each data source mapping profile specific to a particular data source configuration; maintain a data store comprising the plurality of data source mapping profiles; select a data source mapping profile specific to the at least one identified data source configuration; and apply an algorithm to map the retrieved data to a predetermined ontology based on the selected data source mapping profile for the at least one identified data source.

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.