Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system to modify an industrial control system includes: at least one memory; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: configure a device driver based on a first command, the first command to configure the device driver to initiate a device-specific communication protocol to collect input data from a publisher device coupled to the device driver; access a second command from a subscriber device, the second command to include a device identifier of the publisher device and to specify at least one of a communication mode, a device calibration configuration, or a fault detection configuration, the second command based on a product quality prediction, the product quality prediction generated using a spectral data model; and provide the second command to the device driver.

A control system is mounted with a function of transmitting/receiving a plurality of types of data together. If a plurality of data acquisition requests are made, the system creates a single grouping request by grouping the individual data acquisition requests. The grouping request is transmitted by a single communication session, and a device having received the grouping request acquires a plurality of pieces of data in response to the plurality of data acquisition requests included in the received request, creates the result of grouping of the acquired data, and transmits the result as a response to the grouping request.

Techniques and devices to assist an offshore unit in going on location and coming off location. A device may include an interface configured to receive a signal indicative of motions of an offshore unit. The device may also include a memory configured to store a set of values corresponding to acceptable motions of the offshore unit, as well as a processor configured to determine if a measured motion of the offshore unit exceeds at least one value of the set of values and generate an indication that going on location by the offshore unit can be undertaken when the processor determines that the measured motion of the offshore unit is less than or equal to the at least one value.

A thermal compensation system for machine tools includes a thermal compensation-monitoring device and a cloud processing device. The thermal compensation-monitoring device receives a plurality of temperature signals of a workpiece and corresponding processing tolerance data to build or update a thermal compensation database. The cloud processing device provides a thermal compensation model, and applies the model with the characterized temperature signals and the tolerance data to generate a compensation value so as to decide whether or not to modify the model or to run a compensation is necessary.

A method for monitoring an optical lens manufacturing process at a first lens manufacturing side, the method including: a manufacturing data collecting, during which sets of manufacturing data indicative of at least a manufacturing process parameter and/or a manufacturing device parameters and/or an operator parameter and/or an environment parameter at the first lens manufacturing side are collected; a manufacturing information generating, during which at least one manufacturing information indicative of at least a manufacturing process parameter and/or a manufacturing device parameters and/or an operator parameter and/or an environment parameter at a second lens manufacturing side is generated based on the collected manufacturing data.

In a method of configuring a host device in a process control plant to automatically perform an action or a set of actions includes, a workflow template is generated. The workflow template includes a sequence of one or more steps to be performed by the host device. Each of at least some of the one or more steps is selected from a set of predetermined steps. Then, an instance of the workflow template is generated at the host device. A trigger condition is generated for automatically triggering the instance workflow. The sequence of the one or more steps is executed in response to detecting the trigger condition.

A remote control system to remotely control a take-out robot of an injection molding machine on a production site through network includes an injection molding machine to produce and convey injection molded products through the take-out robot. A remote controller transmits and receives the operation data of the take-out robot and the information data on the injection molding to and from the injection molding machine through the wireless internet. The remote controller remotely controls the injection molding machine based on the utilized operation data and information data. A control pendent connected to the injection molding machine remotely controls the take-out robot, performs three-dimensional graphic simulation for the previous operations before operating the take-out robot and for loading motions of the injection molded products, and stores and outputs the three-dimensional graphic images of the injection molded products, based on a previously stored remote control access program.

A service robot is provided to communicate with other devices of a service location, such as another robot. A first and second robot may be tasked with performing a customer service task requiring a physical interaction. The first robot may determine that the second robot lacks instructions to perform the customer service task. Upon making the determination, the first robot retrieves physical interaction instructions and causes the second robot to load and execute the physical interaction instructions. The second robot is then transformed, by the first robot, into a configured robot able to perform the customer service task.

A device receives information, associated with civil structures, that includes temperature information associated with the civil structures, pressure information associated with the civil structures, stress information associated with the civil structures, vibration information associated with the civil structures, or displacement information associated with the civil structures. The device performs an analysis of the information associated with the civil structures via one or more analytics techniques, and generates analysis information based on the analysis of the information associated with the civil structures. The analysis information identifies a potential issue with at least one of the civil structures, and the device provides the analysis information for display.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system to modify an industrial control system includes: at least one memory; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: configure a device driver based on a first command, the first command to configure the device driver to initiate a device-specific communication protocol to collect input data from a publisher device coupled to the device driver; access a second command from a subscriber device, the second command to include a device identifier of the publisher device and to specify at least one of a communication mode, a device calibration configuration, or a fault detection configuration, the second command based on a product quality prediction, the product quality prediction generated using a spectral data model; and provide the second command to the device driver.