The present disclosure describes a new method to virtualize a plant facility with remote sites that are separated from a central site. The method includes: assembling, by a server computer located at the central site of the plant facility, an engineering package addressed to a particular remote site of the plant facility, the administrative package comprising a command script and a data component; and dispatching, by the server computer located at the central site of the plant facility and through a transport network of one or more transport vehicles, the engineering package to the particular remote site such that, when the engineering package arrives with a particular transport vehicle at the particular remote site, the command script is extracted and executed to perform control systems management and engineering tasks at the particular remote site for routine maintenance as if a human control system engineer is present to perform such systems management and engineering tasks on-site.

The present disclosure describes a new method to virtualize a plant facility with remote sites that are separated from a central site. The method includes: assembling, by a server computer located at the central site of the plant facility, an engineering package addressed to a particular remote site of the plant facility, the administrative package comprising a command script and a data component; and dispatching, by the server computer located at the central site of the plant facility and through a transport network of one or more transport vehicles, the engineering package to the particular remote site such that, when the engineering package arrives with a particular transport vehicle at the particular remote site, the command script is extracted and executed to perform control systems management and engineering tasks at the particular remote site for routine maintenance as if a human control system engineer is present to perform such systems management and engineering tasks on-site.

A system executing a closed loop control on data for cloud-based applications includes an industrial automation device configured to generate cloud variables, a cloud-based application on a network device with cloud-computing infrastructure, an industrial controller controlling the industrial automation device by a user-defined program which receives the cloud variables, a cloud agent communicating with the user-defined control program and the cloud-based application. The cloud agent collects the cloud variables and sends them to the cloud-based application. The cloud-based application determines updated optimized cloud variables and notifies the cloud agent with the updated optimized cloud variables. The cloud agent reloads the updated optimized cloud variables and notifies the user-defined control program with the updated optimized cloud variables. The user-defined control program includes cloud constructs which request the updated optimized cloud variables during runtime and reload the updated optimized cloud variables in the user-defined control program.

In a system and a method for control and/or analytics of an industrial process and especially a system and a method for the prioritization of the data transmission of process data from plant-side automation and processing units to remote processing units external to the plant, the system has an the plant side at least one automation or processing unit, which carries out first process variable computations and acts on the process. On the side external to the plant, the system has a remote processing unit that carries out a number of second process variable computations and that receives local data from the at least one automation or processor unit via a data connection and at least one data collector unit. The data collector unit prioritizes the data transfer via the data connection between the at least one automation or processor unit and the processing unit external to the plant.

Smart solenoid valve equipped with a communication and control kit comprising a wireless communication system as well as a PLC capable of controlling a plurality of system components, management and control method, software and user interface thereof for the management of said plurality of components controlled, in turn, by the smart solenoid valve.

A system and method of connecting remotely located machine tools over the Internet. An agent-adapter architecture is used to transform the machine tools into IoT devices in a connected group that communicates with each other for exchanging their status information and executing operations remotely over the Internet.

A control system includes first and second hardware components and a server which is remote from the hardware components. The server is a server in the cloud which is connected via the Internet to the hardware components. A control module is implemented as a service running on the server and the control module is operable to communicate with the hardware components to control at least one of the hardware components.

The invention relates to an industrial machine system comprising a machine (1) comprising an actuator system (2) for performing an industrial operation, and a remote computing system (6) comprising a machine controller (9). The machine controller is remote connected to the machine, and is configured to remote control the actuator system of the machine. The invention further relates to a method of controlling an industrial machine.

A method to orchestrate configurations of simulations based on digital twin models of modular plants such that the configurations of the model-based simulations are generated and deployed automatically, is proposed and based on a logical System Structure and Parameterization functionality including a Functional Mock-up Interface-functionality combined with a Functional Mock-up Unit-functionality to generate for distributed operational-technology-applications of the modular plants simulated model components including assignment rules for automation data captured due to automation of the plants and assigned to the distributed operational-technology-applications, and deploying the simulated model components on the distributed operational-technology-applications by using the SSP-functionality with Functional Mock-up Unit-functionalities as part of the FMI-functionality for the distributed operational-technology-applications and implementing for the distributed operational-technology-applications and as part of the FMI-functionality in a server-client-manner Remote Procedure Call-technology based Proxy-FMU-functionalities with Proxy-FMU-entities embedded in the SSP-functionality and corresponding Remote-Controlled-FMU-entities implemented on the distributed operational-technology-applications is provided.

A method and computer program product for controlling data transfer between a client device and auxiliary robot cell functions of a robot cell as well as to an interface arrangement for the robot cell. The arrangement includes a reverse proxy providing connectivity for a client device to auxiliary robot cell functions accessible via a local addressing space, where the reverse proxy receives, in a first message having a destination address belonging to the interface device and being a first global address in a global addressing space, a request intended for an auxiliary robot cell function, converts the first address to a first local address of the auxiliary robot cell function in the local addressing space and sends the request to a web server associated with the auxiliary robot cell function using the first local address.