The present disclosure relates to a method of managing and updating two different versions of software, and more particularly, to an integrated management and update method of software including integrating software of a DC-DC converter and a battery management system (BMS) installed in residential Energy Storage System (ESS) to generate and manage one integrated management package, and sequentially executing a software update procedure of the DC-DC converter and the BMS in the integrated management package.

An integration tool is presented for integrating and/or commissioning a new device or system into a building automation system. The integration tool is incorporated into the building automation system and is operative to create one or more databases and/or applications for the new device that is then flashed to an appropriate building system controller. In one form, the present invention is a software tool for integrating a building automation device into the building control system. In another form, the present invention is an integration tool for defining applications for new devices.

A process control system coordinates with an associated asset management system to implement a plant safety mechanism and, in particular, to prevent unintended changes to, or otherwise undesired operation of, one or more process control equipment resources in a process plant. A maintenance technician uses the asset management system to request access to one or more of the process control equipment resources. A process operator receives the request via the process control system and grants or denies the request. Process control equipment resources for which a process operator grants a request are inoperable, in part or in whole, by the process control system. Upon completion of the maintenance task, the maintenance technician requests to return control of the process control equipment resource to the process operator. The return is complete when the process operator acknowledges the return of the resource to the process control system.

A method for modifying control software of an automation system having a controller and a plurality of subscribers, where the subscribers are connected to the controller via a data bus and communicate via a data exchange, at least one subscriber is a software subscriber for modifying control software of the controller, and the software subscriber comprises a memory unit on which at least one modification instruction for modifying the control software is stored. The controller sends an individual query message to the software subscriber for querying the modification instruction, the software subscriber sends a response to the controller providing the modification instruction, and the controller verifies whether the modification instruction is compatible with the control software, modifying the control software according if the modification instruction is compatible with the control software, and discarding the modification instruction if not compatible with the control software.

For each of one or a plurality of control units, a development support device registers a service corresponding to the control unit and a screen generation code generating a UI screen corresponding to the service in a server. The server includes a service module providing a target service of a target control unit requested by the terminal. The service module accesses the target control unit to collect target data obtained by the target control unit executing the control program; and provides a UI screen, which is indicated by the screen generation code corresponding to the target service and includes the target data, to the terminal. Thus, the one or the plurality of control units can be easily monitored.

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) provides a development framework for designing, programming, and configuring multiple aspects of an industrial automation system using a common design environment and data model. Projects creating using embodiments of the IDE system can be built on an object-based model rather than, or in addition to, a tag-based architecture. To this end, the IDE system can support the use of automation objects that serve as building blocks for this object-based development structure. To ensure consistency within and between projects, as well as to ensure that a given industrial project is dynamically updated to reflect changes to an industrial asset's attributes (e.g., control code, visualization definitions, testing scripts, analytic code, etc.), embodiments of the IDE system can use automation object inheritance features to propagate changes made to an automation object definition to all instances of the automation object used throughout a control project.

Systems and methods for controlling industrial process automation and control systems can automatically, through the use of machine learning (ML) models and algorithms, extract plant assets from engineering diagrams and other plant engineering data sources. The systems and methods can establish asset relationships to create a plant asset registry and build an asset hierarchy from the plant assets. The systems and methods can generate an ontological knowledge base from the plant asset hierarchy, and provide an HMI for controlling the industrial process based on the plant asset hierarchy and the ontological knowledge base.

Disclosed examples create a multi-aspect object, the multi-aspect object represented using a class definition; assign a first capability to the multi-aspect object, the first capability to communicate with equipment in a control system; assign a second capability to the multi-aspect object, the second capability to communicate with the equipment in the control system; create a semantic data model in the multi-aspect object, the semantic data model to share information between the first capability and the second capability of the multi-aspect object; deploy the first capability of the multi-aspect object on a first runtime platform; and deploy the second capability of the multi-aspect object on a second runtime platform, the semantic data model to communicate between the first and second runtime platforms to share the information between the first and second capabilities of the multi-aspect object.

Various embodiments for a customized asset performance system and marketplace are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving asset data indicating one or more assets that are being monitored by a control system. Telemetry data for at least a first asset is received, the telemetry data including data corresponding to a previous functionality of the asset over a specified period of time. The telemetry data is compared to an expected functionality over the specified period of time. A problem with the first asset is identified based on the comparing. One or more software packages that are configured to address the problem with the first asset are identified based on comparing the telemetry data to an expected functionality of the first asset over the specified period of time. A selection of a first software package from the one more software packages is received and the selected first software package is updated.

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) provides a development framework for designing, programming, and configuring multiple aspects of an industrial automation system using a common design environment and data model. Projects creating using embodiments of the IDE system can be built on an object-based model rather than, or in addition to, a tag-based architecture. To this end, the IDE system can support the use of automation objects that serve as building blocks for this object-based development structure. To ensure consistency within and between projects, as well as to ensure that a given industrial project is dynamically updated to reflect changes to an industrial asset's attributes (e.g., control code, visualization definitions, testing scripts, analytic code, etc.), embodiments of the IDE system can use automation object inheritance features to propagate changes made to an automation object definition to all instances of the automation object used throughout a control project.