Embodiments herein are directed to an assembly having a plurality of machines, a first programmable logic controller device and a second programmable logic controller device commutatively coupled to the first programmable logic controller device. The second programmable logic controller device includes a human machine interface having a display and displaying a plurality of user inputs. A processing device communicatively coupled to the display and a storage medium. The storage medium includes one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to prompt a user to select a desired program, to input a desired line speed time, and to input a plurality of line control data. The data is converted into a simulated data and transferred to the first programmable logic controller device, which causes at least one machine of the plurality of machinery to move in a predetermined manner based on the simulated data.

A hybrid rendering HMI terminal device (32) is provided with a web browser (321) and an HMI Web Runtime (322). The web browser (321) displays an HMI screen on which a first part and a second part that represent the state of a monitoring target device (7) are arranged. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is analog numerical data, a WebGL rendering processing unit (322i) renders the first part associated with the signal data by WebGL rendering. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is data other than analog numerical data, an SVG rendering processing unit (322h) renders the second part associated with the signal data by SVG rendering.

An information processing apparatus configured to control display on a user interface includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire recipe data regarding a processing condition of a substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate and layout data regarding a layout of a processed portion of the substrate processed by the substrate processing apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display, on the user interface, information regarding the layout data and information regarding the recipe data related to the layout data, the layout data and the recipe data being acquired by the acquisition unit, in association with each other.

Disclosed herein are a control method and system. The system includes: a deactivation control; a control centre controller for storing an association between the deactivation control and a selected set of mine sites; a plurality of autonomous drill rigs, each drill rig having a drill shutdown module to disable a function of the respective drill rig upon receipt of a deactivation command; and a mine site controller associated with each mine site, each mine site controller being coupled to all autonomous drill rigs located at the respective mine site with which the mine site controller is associated. Activating the deactivation control transmits a deactivation command from the deactivation control to the control centre controller. The control centre controller forwards the deactivation command to a mine site controller associated with each mine site in the set of mine sites for distribution to all autonomous drill rigs at that mine site.

The exemplified methods and systems facilitates the configuring of IO devices and its IO modules (and submodules) in enabling an operator to retrieve, via a single input, in a development workspace, a list of IO modules and submodules that is compatible to a given IO device. The exemplified methods and systems facilitates retrieval of compatible IO modules and submodules based parameters of the IO modules and submodules. The exemplified methods and systems provide an intuitive interface, in a development workspace for configuring an IO device, to add a retrieved (i.e., searched) module or submodule from a list thereof to an existing project for a given IO device.

One aspect of the invention relates to a high-availability control system (100) for an industrial process comprising: A plurality of operator stations (108) displaying a subset of information; An interface module (105) including a pair of computers (104) for each model, each collecting each item of data received by each controller (103) having the model and eliminating the duplicates, the computers (104) operating in asynchronous redundancy; A processing module (106) including a pair of computers (104) each receiving the collected data, sorting the data received as a function of their acquisition time, eliminating the duplicates and calculating an information group by acquisition time, the computers (104) operating in active redundancy, A module for managing the operator stations (107) including one computer (104) per operator station (108), each receiving each calculated information group and sending to the operator station (108) each information group corresponding to the subset of information; A duplicate communication network, comprising a distributed redundancy module configured to manage the message exchanges between computers (104).

A system provides a design interface for designing and implementing graphical user interfaces that users can access through web browsers. Depending on the configuration of the graphical user interfaces, the users may be able to monitor and control industrial processes by interacting with components that correspond to the industrial processes as displayed in user interfaces at client devices. The design interface includes functionality for selecting preprogrammed components, or for generating new components for display. The design interface further allows designers to associate data values received from a variety of sources with properties of the components in the user interfaces. In particular, properties associated with a component of an interface are stored in property tree structures, making dynamic changes to the components possible. Data bindings between subtrees representing components and sets of data from industrial and other sources allows for designs that scale with the availability of the data.

A commissioning method, tool and computer-readable storage media for an industrial device are proposed. A commissioning method for an industrial device includes: determining application type of the industrial device; displaying at least one macro relevant to the application type determined for a user to choose. A displayed macro includes a set of defined parameters of the industrial device relevant to the application type determined. Finally, the commissioning method includes receiving the choice of the user on macro.

Methods and apparatus to virtualize a process control system are described. A described process control system includes a server cluster including one or more servers. When operating, the server cluster provides a virtual workstation or virtual server, a virtual controller to interoperate with the virtual workstation or server and to implement process control operations, and a virtual input/output device to interoperate with the virtual controller and coupled to one or more field devices within the process control system.

The present disclosure relates to a human machine interface (HMI) system easily applicable to each of a plurality of control management systems. An HMI system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a module generation unit configured to generate an interface module of a control management system selected by an input of a user based on a source code data corresponding to at least one system component, source code data corresponding to each of one or more engineering components, and profile data corresponding to each of a plurality of control management systems. As a result, the HMI system may provide a plurality of interface modules applied to the plurality of control management systems, and thus there is an advantage in which compatibility may be improved.