A system for using digital twins to interact with physical objects in an automation system includes a plurality of controller devices, a process image backbone, and a registry comprising a plurality of digital twins. Each respective controller device comprises a volatile computer-readable storage medium comprising a process image area. The process image backbone provides the controllers with uniform access to the process image area of each controller. Each digital twin in the registry corresponds to a physical device controllable via one of the controllers devices via a corresponding process image area.

Operational facets of a compressor are controlled from a remotely-located computer. Data from the compressor is automatically collected at a first data store every first time increment of a first time period. Portions of the data from the first data store are automatically collected at a second data store every second time increment of each first time period. The second time increment is greater than the first time increment, and the portions of the data are collected for a second time period which is greater than the first time period. Successful verification of user authentication data collected at the computer causes automatic generation of an image of application icons at the computer to enable the computer as an input device for controlling the compressor and selections of routines available at an analytics visualization generator that uses data from the second data store.

A method for configuring a data analyzer is provided. The method comprises displaying to a user, on a presentation interface coupled to a processor, a graphical representation of at least a portion of the data analyzer. A data analyzer configuration for the data analyzer is then generated using a user input interface, which is coupled to the presentation interface and the processor. The presentation interface then displays to the user a plurality of selectable machine train components. The method also comprises generating, using the user input interface, an interactive graphical representation of a machine train including at least one of the selectable machine train components. Using the processor, a configuration file is generated based on the data analyzer configuration and the graphical representation of the machine train. The configuration file facilitates diagnosing operation of the machine train using the data analyzer.

Systems, computer readable media, and method concern assigning an abstraction representation to data associated with a system of the SCADA environment. The method also includes providing the abstraction representation to a control system associated with the system of the SCADA environment. The control system is implemented in a computer system. Further, the method includes receiving actual data from the system of the SCADA environment. Additionally, the method includes generating abstract data from the actual data using the abstraction representation. The method, also includes forwarding the abstract data to the control system.

A system includes a plurality of non-intrusive sensors, an access point device, and a computing device. The non-intrusive sensors are configured to monitor activities associated with one or more devices, wherein at least one non-intrusive sensor of the plurality of non-intrusive sensors is positioned within a physical vicinity of the one or more devices. The access point device is communicatively coupled to the plurality of non-intrusive sensors, wherein the access point device is configured to receive data associated with the monitored activities from the plurality of non-intrusive sensors and further to transmit the data associated with the monitored activities to a computing device for processing. The computing device is configured to receive the data associated with the monitored activities and process the data to determine an anomaly associated with the one or more devices.

An asset monitoring and reporting system (AMRS) implements an interface to establish an asset hierarchy to be monitored and reported against. The interface employs a search query of extant asset data from which definitional aspects of the asset hierarchy can be identified, and therefrom the interface automatically determines control information reflective of the asset hierarchy to direct the ongoing operation of the AMRS.

A communication system is provided. The communication system includes a communication device receiving a state signal from at least one remote terminal unit (RTU), generating signal quality data for the state signal, and transmitting, to a control device, the generated signal quality data and the received state signal. The control device generates state estimation data for each of the at least one RTU on a basis of the state signal received from the communication device, corrects the signal quality data transmitted from the communication device according to at least one preset condition, and changes the generated state estimation data on a basis of the corrected signal quality data and the received state signal.

Disclosed area method and apparatus for detecting security using an industry internet operating system so as to address problems in the prior art of poor security of field devices, and high difficulty of manipulating the field devices. In the method, security detection rules corresponding to respective field devices are obtained according to various heterogeneous and dispersed operating data information in an industry field acquired in real-time into a database, in a big-data analysis mode of an industry big-data analysis platform, and some of the security detection rules corresponding to the field devices are selected and then issued to execution devices to detect the field devices for security to guarantee controllable security in the industry field. In this way, industry data can be acquired, parsed, stored, mined, optimized, and secured in the big-data analysis mode, so that an industry and the field devices can operate in a trusted operating environment.

A system for supervising operation of at least one machine of an industrial installation or for supervising such operation and actuating the at least one machine based on such supervision, is disclosed. The system comprises a network comprising a server and a plurality of devices forming a computing cluster. At least some devices of the plurality of devices are connectable to a machine of the industrial installation. Each device of the at least some devices comprises: a first processor configured to compute in real-time, with data acquirable from the machine to which the device is connectable, a first processing task for solving a first query; and a second processor configured to share its processing power with the network, and to compute, when assigned by the server, at least one thread of a second processing task for solving a second query. The server is configured to: control the computing cluster; partition the second processing task into a plurality of threads; and assign one or more threads of the plurality of threads to the second processor of at least some devices of the plurality of devices. A device for supervising operation of at least one machine of an industrial installation is also disclosed. An industrial installation is also disclosed, comprising: a plurality of machines; and a network for supervising operation of at least one machine of the plurality of machines or for supervising and actuating the at least one machine, the network comprising a server and a plurality of devices forming a computing cluster.

Techniques for synchronizing configuration changes in a process plant allow for intelligent and efficient updates to objects and related dependent objects. Additionally, techniques for synchronizing minor configuration changes in a process plant enable real-time updates to objects during run-time. Such techniques reduce the amount of downtime for online operation of the process plant and reduce the amount of information transmitted over the process control network. Each object may correspond to a process entity and dependent objects may be referenced by or may reference the object. In some cases, when an engineer modifies an object, dependent objects with respect to the modified object that have pending modifications are identified and displayed to the engineer. The engineer then selects the dependent objects to sync with the modified object and the dependent objects and modified object are synced and executed by a corresponding device in the run-time system.