An operator control station of an industrial automation system includes at least one input interface to receive a user input and a communication interface to communicate with one or more devices of the industrial automation system, including a first device via an Ethernet communication protocol. The operator control station also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the communication interface. The controller performs operations including generating a signal based on the user input and the signal instructs the first device to control at least one component of the industrial automation system. The controller also performs operations including providing the signal to the communication interface for transmission to the first device via the Ethernet communication protocol.

A method includes receiving an input indicative of a selection of an object associated with an industrial automation project, each object of a plurality of objects corresponding to a respective industrial automation component, retrieving logic associated with the object from a storage component, evaluating an operability of the logic when executed by the respective industrial automation component corresponding to the object, wherein evaluating the operability of the logic comprises running one or more scripts, executing one or more algorithms, applying one or more rules, or a combination thereof, and updating a GUI to present: a first window visualization comprising a logic schematic visualization of one or more tasks that the logic is configured to cause the object to perform and a second window visualization comprising an indication of the operability of the logic when executed by the respective industrial automation component.

In order to visualize screen content on a data visualization system in the context of monitoring and controlling the functionality of at least one device, which is networked in an installation-related and operational manner to form a device network, in a technical installation, in which each visualization aspect from a set of visualization aspects which is available for the device can be linked to device-specific operating data of device operating data provided by the installation, which device-specific operating data are respectively tied to this visualization aspect.

A (GUI) for designing an industrial automation system includes a design window and a first accessory window. The GUI presents a library visualization representative of a plurality of objects within the first accessory window, each object is represented by an icon and corresponds to a respective industrial automation device. The GUI receives inputs indicative of a selection of one or more objects of the plurality of objects from the library, presents the one or more objects in the design window, determines that the one or more inputs do not comply with a set of industrial automation system rules comprising one or more relationships between a plurality of industrial automation devices, and displays a warning message that the one or more inputs do not comply with the set of industrial automation system rules.

A control device is provided with: an extraction unit which extracts, on the basis of a machine configuration including the number of axes and/or the number of systems in a machine tool, a plurality of task items included in setup work for the next process in the machine tool, as essential settings or optional settings; a determination unit which dynamically determines, in accordance with operation details of setup work performed on the machine tool during a period from the completion of the latest process by the machine tool to the present point in time, whether each of the plurality of task items extracted as an essential setting or optional setting corresponds to an essential setting or an optional setting; and an action control unit which does not permit a process action of the machine tool if there is an essential setting which has not been completed or updated.

Flexible graphic element objects in a process plant are configurable both in a run-time operating environment in which a process is being controlled and in a configuration environment. An instantiated flexible graphic element object may be a display view or may be another graphic element included on a display view. A graphic element object may be linked to and/or derived from another graphic element object, and changes to a particular graphic element object may be propagated to its derivations, e.g., according to a distribution policy. Changes to definitions corresponding to a particular graphic element object (e.g., to the definition of a graphic element attribute such as a shape, animation, event handler or property) may be overridden or modified in another object derived from the particular graphic element object. The modified derived object may be renamed and saved separately from the particular graphic element object.

An information processing apparatus configured to control display on a user interface includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire recipe data regarding a processing condition of a substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate and layout data regarding a layout of a processed portion of the substrate processed by the substrate processing apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display, on the user interface, information regarding the layout data and information regarding the recipe data related to the layout data, the layout data and the recipe data being acquired by the acquisition unit, in association with each other.

A system for monitoring and controlling a manufacturing environment is disclosed. Aspects discussed include beacons broadcasting identifying information for aspects of the manufacturing environment such as workstations, manufactured items, machines, equipment, and people. The identifying information may be used to generate reports about the operation of these and possibly other aspects, as well as provide control options for changing the manufacturing environment. Employees may move about the environment to visually monitor activities taking place, while the system may automatically query for additional information about the tools, equipment, people encountered in the environment. Control options for changing aspects of the manufacturing processes may also be automatically displayed as well.

A machining program editing apparatus includes a GUI unit configured to specify an indication route having two points located on an original machining path, as a start point and an end point, and a program editing unit configured to edit a machining program indicative of the original machining path to thereby form a new machining path by replacing an area from the start point to the end point on the original machining path, with the indication route specified through the GUI unit.

Some embodiments of the disclosure are direct to a system for transforming data values associated with an industrial component such as a pump or storage tank into a different form than the data values received from a sensor were intended. In some embodiments, the system is configured to determine a data values for a component not attached to a sensor by using data values from components with sensors. In some embodiments, the system is configured to initiate a self-healing operation where equivalent values are produced for components when actual sensor values stop being received for those components. In some embodiments, the system is able to control various industrial facility components using the equivalent values. In some embodiments, the system is able to display a unit of measure for a component in a different unit of measure than that provided by a sensor.