Operational facets of a compressor are controlled from a remotely-located computer. Data from the compressor is automatically collected at a first data store every first time increment of a first time period. Portions of the data from the first data store are automatically collected at a second data store every second time increment of each first time period. The second time increment is greater than the first time increment, and the portions of the data are collected for a second time period which is greater than the first time period. Successful verification of user authentication data collected at the computer causes automatic generation of an image of application icons at the computer to enable the computer as an input device for controlling the compressor and selections of routines available at an analytics visualization generator that uses data from the second data store.

The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for transmitting a program and parameter to a PLC. An adapter connecting to a port of a PLC allows an operator to simply (i) log in on a cloud server with use of a mobile terminal on which an APP is installed, (ii) download a written program or parameter, and (iii) transmit the program or parameter directly to the adapter wirelessly to transmit the program or parameter to the PLC via the adapter. An alternative embodiment may be arranged such that the cloud server transmits, to an APP of the mobile terminal over a mobile network, an instruction on what data to sample and that the APP accesses the PLC via the adapter, obtains the data, and feeds back the data to the cloud server. This simplifies the operation for updating and maintaining a program and/or parameter of a PLC and reduces costs.

An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the automation interface component. The computer process interface library exposes the automation interface component to client application processes, so that the client application processes can communicate with the at least one industrial controller programmatically. The automation interface is provided with functionality for downloading, uploading and programming of control programs to the processors of the industrial controllers.

An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the automation interface component. The computer process interface library exposes the automation interface component to client application processes, so that the client application processes can communicate with the at least one industrial controller programmatically. The automation interface is provided with functionality for downloading, uploading and programming of control programs to the processors of the industrial controllers.

A system includes a plurality of manufacturing tools configured to perform a physical action contributing to manufacture of a product. The system further includes one or more programmable controllers coupled to the plurality of manufacturing tools and one or more lineside units coupled to the one or more programmable controllers. The one or more lineside units each configured to cooperate with the one or more programmable controllers to discover tool data describing services performed by one or more of the plurality of manufacturing tools, including command sets. The one or more lineside units receive a process definition from a remote manufacturing control system and translate the process definition into commands to the plurality of manufacturing tools according to the tool data. Results of implementing the commands is asynchronously reported to the manufacturing control system. The process definition may be retrieved directly from a manufacturing database.

The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for facilitating object-based industrial automation control. An automation control library comprised of a plurality of objects may be maintained in association with one or more industrial automation applications. Code defining the execution of an industrial automation process may be received. A plurality of objects in the object library for implementing the industrial automation control process may be identified. The plurality of identified objects may be matched to one or more hardware components based on one or more operational requirements included in the code, and available hardware resources for performing the automation control process.

An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the automation interface component. The computer process interface library exposes the automation interface component to client application processes, so that the client application processes can communicate with the at least one industrial controller programmatically. The automation interface is provided with functionality for downloading, uploading and programming of control programs to the processors of the industrial controllers.

An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the automation interface component. The computer process interface library exposes the automation interface component to client application processes, so that the client application processes can communicate with the at least one industrial controller programmatically. The automation interface is provided with functionality for downloading, uploading and programming of control programs to the processors of the industrial controllers.

The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for facilitating object-based industrial automation control. An automation control library comprised of a plurality of objects may be maintained in association with one or more industrial automation applications. Code defining the execution of an industrial automation process may be received. A plurality of objects in the object library for implementing the industrial automation control process may be identified. The plurality of identified objects may be matched to one or more hardware components based on one or more operational requirements included in the code, and available hardware resources for performing the automation control process.

An engineering tool is used for editing data of program components of programmable logic controllers which form a programmable logic controller system which enables a plurality of users to simultaneously edit the program components, and for writing the edited data of the program components to the programmable logic controllers. The engineering tool includes a program component editing method setting unit configured to set the timing at which the data of the program components changed by the editing is transmitted to other engineering tools in which the data of the program components is being edited, for each of the program components.