A manufacturing device monitoring system includes a plurality of manufacturing devices and a remote monitoring device. The manufacturing device includes a work unit, an equipment notifier, an error detector, and an error notifier. The error notifier determines whether or not an error detected by the error detector may be corrected by an operation from the remote monitoring device, notifies the remote monitoring device of the occurrence of the error in a case where the error can be corrected, and operates the equipment notifier to notify a first notification pattern in a case where the error cannot be corrected.

A system and method for employing a file system and file system services on the industrial controller. The file system allows industrial control programs to implement many functions previously performed within the industrial control program and stored in the same memory as the industrial control program. An execution engine is provided that interprets instructions included in an industrial control program. The instructions utilize services in the file system for including user defined routine files loaded from local or remote locations, to load and unload recipe files from local and remote locations, to log and retrieve measured data and trend data to files at local or remote locations, to select different operating systems and to select a running program from a plurality of running programs utilizing the file system.

A system and method for employing a file system and file system services on the industrial controller. The file system allows industrial control programs to implement many functions previously performed within the industrial control program and stored in the same memory as the industrial control program. An execution engine is provided that interprets instructions included in an industrial control program. The instructions utilize services in the file system for including user defined routine files loaded from local or remote locations, to load and unload recipe files from local and remote locations, to log and retrieve measured data and trend data to files at local or remote locations, to select different operating systems and to select a running program from a plurality of running programs utilizing the file system.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for designing and manufacturing physical objects including lattice structures include, in one aspect, a method including: providing a three-dimensional model including a dual representation of a lattice structure, wherein both a shell mesh model and a solid body model of the lattice structure are producible from an additional model of the lattice structure, and beams of the lattice structure in the solid body model are hollow; performing numerical simulation using at least the shell mesh model of the dual representation to produce a current numerical assessment; modifying the additional model of the dual representation based on the current numerical assessment; repeating the performing and the modifying one or more times until the numerical simulation indicates the lattice structure satisfies at least one response requirement; and providing at least the solid body model for use in manufacturing the lattice structure.