A test system is includes a management server which is configured to provide predefined test instructions, a monitoring system, and at least one execution entity. The monitoring system is configured to convert test instructions provided by the management server into operating instructions for setting a test configuration on a control unit of a system using predefined assignment logic. The at least one execution entity is configured to set the test configuration on the control unit of the system on the basis of operating instructions transmitted by the monitoring system to the at least one execution entity.

Operator System and method for identifying and displaying operator accesses to process objects within the scope of process management and process monitoring such that an efficient coordination of operator accesses is achieved.

A system for dynamically controlling content displayed on a condition monitoring system may include a processor that may receive one or more datasets associated with one or more components in an industrial environment. The system may also include a graphical user interface (GUI) that may display visualizations representing the components in a first portion of the GUI. The GUI may then receive a first selection of the visualizations and display data processing outputs associated with the first selection in a second portion of the GUI. There, the data processing outputs may be determined based on a first dataset that corresponds to a first component associated with the first selection. The GUI may then receive a second selection of the visualizations and may dynamically update the data processing outputs based on a second dataset that corresponds to a second component.

A human interface technique is disclosed for industrial automation systems. The technique allows for reduced data set visualizations to be created for components that may include identifying information, operational data, real or near real time data, and so forth, such as in the form of a faceplate or brief summary. The content may be made available to users on interface devices, such as thin client devices. The access to the content may be distributed based upon relevant criteria that are stored as policies in a visualization manager, such as user, location, device, event triggers, and so forth.

A human interface technique is disclosed for industrial automation systems. The technique allows for visualizations to be distributed to interfaces, such as thin client interfaces, from automation components, such as automation controllers and other sources of visualization content. Access and delivery may be controlled by a visualization manager that stores policies for access to relevant content, such as based on an event, a user, a location of the user, and so forth. Upon occurrence of a particular event, such as relating to a machine or process that is monitored and/or controlled, the visualization manager may allow access to visualizations based upon the relevance factors.

A controllable device, such as a set top box, responds to a transmission received from a one of a plurality of controlling devices of differing capabilities by entering into a one of a plurality of operating modes wherein the one of the plurality of operating modes entered into corresponds to the capabilities of the controlling device from which the transmission originated.

A controllable device, such as a set top box, responds to a transmission received from a one of a plurality of controlling devices of differing capabilities by entering into a one of a plurality of operating modes wherein the one of the plurality of operating modes entered into corresponds to the capabilities of the controlling device from which the transmission originated.

A system/method for executing a program accessing a plurality of subroutines/libraries; invoking a first subroutine providing the program with axis data having offset values in accordance with a workpiece coordinate system; invoking a second subroutine providing the program with geometric data about a geometric of an additive manufacturing tool and setting a tool offset point of the tool at a distance above a substrate surface; receiving a workpiece identifier from an HMI; invoking a third subroutine providing the program with rapid plasma deposition part programming instructions and rapid plasma deposition features from one of the libraries based on the workpiece identifier; invoking a fourth subroutine verifying the instructions and the rapid plasma deposition features; and invoking a fifth subroutine enabling the program to request an additive manufacturing system to deposit a layer on the substrate surface by the additive manufacturing tool via the additive manufacturing process.

A controllable device, such as a set top box, responds to a transmission received from a one of a plurality of controlling devices of differing capabilities by entering into a one of a plurality of operating modes wherein the one of the plurality of operating modes entered into corresponds to the capabilities of the controlling device from which the transmission originated.

A numerical control (NC) system based on a virtual host computer is described. The NC system includes the virtual host computer arranged on a remote server, a local lower computer, and a human-machine interactive device. The human-machine interactive device provides a human-machine interactive input/output interface. The virtual host computer integrates a human-machine interactive module, a non-real-time/half-real-time task execution unit and a lower-computer control unit, and receives an NC machining instruction, processing the instruction to form a machine-tool control instruction through the non-real-time/half-real-time task execution unit, and transmitting the control data to the local lower computer through the lower-computer control unit utilizing a network. The local lower computer controls a machine tool to execute real-time motion control and logic control.