Systems and methods evaluate assessments on time-series data. An expression including temporal operators may be created for an assessment. The expression may be arranged in the form of an expression tree having nodes representing input data to the assessment and intermediate results of the expression. An assessment may be evaluated by performing a bottom-up traversal of the expression tree. One or more plots may be generated including a plot of the outcome of the assessment, e.g., pass, fail, or untested, plots of intermediate results of the expression and plots of input data as a function of time. Graphical affordance may be presented on the plots that mark the regions that may have contributed to a specific pass or fail result of the assessment, and points within the regions that resulted in the assessment passing or failing.

This estimation device comprises a calculation unit that calculates variables indicating the drive state of an electric motor of a machine tool on the basis of a simulation program. The simulation program is a program in which a first auxiliary variable relating to a load factor for estimating the drive state of the electric motor is added to a command statement of a machining program for driving the machine tool. The calculation unit calculates changes in the speed of the electric motor over time on the basis of output characteristics of the electric motor, inertia related to driving of the electric motor, and the first auxiliary variable.

The system performs a process for creating robotic control code for manufacturing products. A Designer UI displays virtual parts and receives inputs for processing and assembling the virtual parts that are required to create a virtual product. The designer identifies options for processing and assembling the virtual parts which are displayed on the user interface. The robot abilities and the options are selected to optimize a metric of the product manufacturing. The inventive toolset produces the robot control codes for performing a sequence of robotic abilities with the selected options to product the product. The robot control codes are used by a simulator which manipulates virtual robots and virtual parts to create a virtual product to check the robot control code. The verified robot control code is used to control real robots to create the product.

Disclosed herein are techniques for virtualizing the I/O of control modules that are to be implemented by a process controller in the runtime environment of a process plant. A configuration application identifies references to the I/O objects utilized by the control modules. In response, the configuration application generates virtual device signal tags (DSTs) to mimic the performance of the identified I/O objects. To facilitate testing and/or verification of the control module, e.g., during the commissioning of a back-end environment, the configuration application instantiates a virtual controller in a simulation environment. To generate the virtual controller, the configuration application replaces any references to the I/O objects with references to respective, generated virtual DSTs. Thus, by using the virtual DSTs as a proxy for the I/O to the field devices, the control module and/or controller may be tested prior to the field devices without the field environment being fully commissioned.

A maintenance support system includes a numerical controller that controls the drive of an operating mechanism of an industrial machine and a server that is a support device capable of communicating with the numerical controller, and the maintenance support system supports maintenance of the industrial machine. The numerical controller includes a first information generating unit that acquires, from among data related to a state of operation of the operating mechanism, data related to the state of operation of the operating mechanism when an anomaly is found in an operation of the operating mechanism, and generates first information including the data acquired. The server includes a second information generating unit that generates second information to be proposed to the numerical controller for the maintenance on the basis of the content of the first information.

A first computing device in an industrial automation system may include an image sensor that captures a visual representation of a portion of a facility including a first industrial automation equipment as image data and a communication component that communicatively couples the first computing device to a second computing device via a communication network, in which the first computing device receives relevant information related to the first industrial automation equipment from the second computing device. The first computing may include a display component that displays a plurality of real objects that visually represent physical features in the portion of the facility based at least in part on the image data, in which the plurality of real objects include a first real object that visual represents physical features of the first industrial automation equipment; and that displays a first virtual object superimposed on at least a portion of the plurality of real objects based at least in part on the relevant information.

Automated material welding including starting a welding operation, scanning a weld in-progress, creating a simulation of the weld in-progress, detecting a flaw in the weld in-progress according to the scanning and the simulation, remediating the weld in-progress, and completing the welding operation.

A first computing device in an industrial automation system may include an image sensor that captures a visual representation of a portion of a facility including a first industrial automation equipment as image data and a communication component that communicatively couples the first computing device to a second computing device via a communication network, in which the first computing device receives relevant information related to the first industrial automation equipment from the second computing device. The first computing may include a display component that displays a plurality of real objects that visually represent physical features in the portion of the facility based at least in part on the image data, in which the plurality of real objects include a first real object that visual represents physical features of the first industrial automation equipment; and that displays a first virtual object superimposed on at least a portion of the plurality of real objects based at least in part on the relevant information.

A method for implementing a digital twin for a physical component of an industrial system includes assigning a unique identifier to the physical component, associating the unique identifier with a digital twin representative of the physical component, placing the digital twin of the physical component on a distributed network. The physical component sends the unique identifier to a known resource, which retrieves the network address of the physical twin associated with the unique identifier and provides the network address to the physical component. A secure communication connection is established between the physical component and the corresponding digital twin via the distributed network. The unique identifier may be a quick read (QR) code displayed on the physical component or a bar code displayed on the physical component. Engineering and simulation software for the digital twin may be supplied on the distributed network.

The system performs a process for creating robotic control code for manufacturing products. A Designer UI displays virtual parts and receives inputs for processing and assembling the virtual parts that are required to create a virtual product. The designer identifies options for processing and assembling the virtual parts which are displayed on the user interface. The robot abilities and the options are selected to optimize a metric of the product manufacturing. The inventive toolset produces the robot control codes for performing a sequence of robotic abilities with the selected options to product the product. The robot control codes are used by a simulator which manipulates virtual robots and virtual parts to create a virtual product to check the robot control code. The verified robot control code is used to control real robots to create the product.