A method of configuring an automation control system using point configuration software. At least an extract from a control program file having program elements and program element attributes for executing in an automatic controller of the automation control system is translated into a common representation including common program element types and common attributes. Mapping template files are applied including mapping rules and mapping parameters defining how the program elements and program element attributes are mapped into at least one automation system point with point attributes, and values for each point attribute. Common program element types and/or common attributes are matched with the mapping template files according to the mapping rules to generate at least one matching program element. The matching program element is converted into an automation system point configuration (system point configuration) which is stored in persistent storage of or accessible by the automation control system.

Method and system for automatically generating data points in a data management system. A control strategy and variables used in the control strategy can be configured, wherein the control strategy governs a data management system associated with a controller. The control strategy and the variables can be downloaded to the controller after configuring the control strategy and variables. The control strategy is then run on the controller and published to the data management system before, during, or after downloading of the control strategy. All available variables in the controller are then automatically listed so as to generate data points that can be downloaded and updated through a communication channel between the data management system and the controller.

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.

A control system includes a data monitoring module configured to: obtain one or more status indicators of a voltage regulation system, each status indicator corresponding to an operating parameter of the voltage regulation system; determine a state value of each status indicator at a second time; compare the state value of each status indicator to a state value for that status indicator at a first time, the first time occurring before the second time; determine whether any operating parameter of the voltage regulation system changed state based on the comparison; and if any operating parameter of the voltage regulation system changed state, store a record in a dataset, the record including the state value of all of the status indicators and a time stamp that includes the second time.

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 device for creating the monitoring image executes display data for each display component. The display component includes an edition region and an operation check region. An operation can be checked using the operation check region while the monitoring image is created using the edition region. A monitoring image without switching devices is efficiently created.

A system for supervising operation of at least one machine of an industrial installation comprises a network having a server and a plurality of devices forming a computing cluster. The devices are connectable to a machine. Each device has a first processor configured to compute in real-time, with data acquirable from a machine to which the device is connected, a first processing task for solving a first query; and a second processor sharing its processing power with the network, and when assigned by the server, computing at least one thread of a second processing task for solving a second query. The server controls the computing cluster; partitions the second processing task into a plurality of threads, and assigns one or more threads of the plurality of threads to the second processor of the plurality of devices

A manufacturing execution system (MES) for providing an indication of the performance of the line. The MES includes a configuration module for modeling entities and lines containing the entities. The MES also includes a runtime module configured to determine the entities on the line whose production can be extrapolated to evaluate the performance of the line. In some cases, the MES determines which of the entities on the line limits the performance of the line; in other cases, the MES determines which of the entities has a production amount that best represents that of the line. The MES is operatively connected to field inputs associated with the entities that provide production data for the entities. Using the production data for the entities chosen to represent the line, the MES generates production metrics representative of the performance of the line and displays them to MES users.

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 programmable discrete input module is described. In one or more implementations, the programmable discrete input module comprises a pulse width modulation module configured to generate a pulse width modulated signal based upon an input signal and a pulse width demodulation module configured to generate a demodulated pulse width signal. An isolator is configured to isolate the pulse width modulation module and the pulse width demodulation module and to generate isolated modulated pulse width signal based upon the pulse width modulated signal for the pulse width demodulation module to generate the demodulated pulse width signal. The programmable discrete input module also includes a first comparator and a second comparator for comparing the demodulated pulse width signal with a respective programmable reference and a digital filter configured to filter a comparison signal output by the first comparator or the second comparator to generate a discrete input signal.