In a method of automating engineering design a knowledge base (KB) is queried for a template to map with new control loop (CL) data of a new CL that was identified in new digitized design data for a new engineering project, the query including the new CL data. The KB is trained to map past CL data of past CLs identified in past digitized design data from past engineering projects to respective templates based on past instantiation of the respective templates with the past CLs by the past engineering projects. The method further includes receiving a selected template in response to the query, wherein the selected template is selected based on its mapping with past CL data that matches the new CL data, and providing configuration data, including an instantiation of the selected template with the new CL data, for implementation of the new CL in an engineering system.

An industrial device matching method and apparatus are used for acquiring a corresponding relationship between industrial devices in different industrial data sources to provide basis for industrial data analysis. The method, in an embodiment, includes collecting data of at least two industrial data sources; determining a first relationship between various industrial devices in each industrial data source, and determining a first relationship topology between the industrial devices in the industrial data source; and comparing the first relationship topologies corresponding to various industrial data sources, to determine a first corresponding relationship between industrial devices in industrial data sources, the first corresponding relationship enabling the first relationship topologies corresponding to at least two industrial data sources to be similar. A relationship between industrial devices in different industrial data sources is determined by comparing a relationship topology between devices according to the similarity of relationships between the devices in different industrial data sources.

A door system includes a controller for controlling the door system. A user computer system transmits information to the controller over a wireless connection to modify operating parameters for controlling the operation of the door system. During installation of the door system sensors may be utilized to determine if the door system has been installed properly. The sensors may be used to identify if the door system is mounted level and plum, and to review the movement, vibration, speed, acceleration, force, or the like of the sensors, and thus, the components to which the sensors are operatively coupled in order to make adjustments to the door assembly. Furthermore, the operating parameters of the installed door system, may be cloned and provided to other door systems in order to quickly clone and distribute the operating parameters of one or more door systems to one or more other door systems.

One embodiment of the present invention discloses a two-phase configuration process (“TCP”) to configure a field-programmable gate array (“FPGA”) to include a configurable microcontroller unit (“CMU”) during a phase I configuration and configuring the CMU during a phase II configuration. TCP, in one aspect, is able to receive first configuration data from a first external storage location via a communication bus. After storing the first configuration data in a first configuration memory for configuring FPGA to contain a CMU for the phase I configuration, second configuration data with MCU attributes is obtained from a second external storage location via the communication bus. The second configuration data is subsequently stored in a second configuration memory for programming the CMU for the phase II configuration.

The disclosure relates to a method for configuring a control device of an automation system, comprising: detecting a local access token via an interface of the control device; and modifying at least one parameter of the control device, which is designed to configure a data connection of the control device in response to the detection of the local access token.

There is provided an information processing device to enable a user to intuitively perform an operation of setting a linked operation of hardware elements or software elements, the information processing device including: a display control unit configured to cause a plurality of icons indicating hardware elements or software elements that perform a linked operation together, and a link connecting the plurality of icons to each other to be displayed. A spatial sequence of the plurality of icons formed by the link corresponds to a temporal sequence of operations of the software elements or the hardware elements indicated by the plurality of icons.

A method and system are provided that synchronize one or more appliances to one or more users' schedules. Sensor data may be obtained from a sensor. The sensor data may indicate a state of a first appliance. A user location may be determined. A first characteristic of the first appliance may be obtained. Based upon the user location and the sensor data, a schedule indicating when the user will desire a state change of the first appliance may be determined. A feature of the first appliance may be dynamically modified to cause the first appliance to operate according to the schedule. A notice may be sent to the user that contains information about the first appliance.

In a substrate processing system, such as a chemical mechanical system, updated controller configuration data is obtained for a plurality of liquid flow controllers of the substrate processing system. Each of a plurality of liquid flow controllers (LFCs) coupled to an Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT) bus automatically downloads a copy of the updated controller configuration data through the EtherCAT bus. Each of the plurality of liquid flow controllers controls fluid flow of a separate fluid line from a plurality of fluid lines in the substrate processing system, fluid flow through the plurality of fluid lines is controlled using the plurality of liquid flow controllers having the updated controller configuration data.

Provided is a simulation technique that allows the program verification to be more efficiently performed. A simulation system includes: a simulator that executes simulation of an operation of one or more devices; a data input unit that obtains one or more execution times in the simulation, positional information of each one of objects in the simulation, and a value of each one of one or more variables referred to by a program to operate the devices; a data recorder that stores, as a first log, positional information of the objects and value of the variables for each of the one or more execution times in a manner that positional information and value are associated with each other; and a displayer that displays positional information of the objects and value of the variables for each of the one or more execution times included in first log.

A laundry dryer includes a cabinet, a user interface that is operably coupled to the cabinet, a motor that is disposed within the cabinet and communicatively coupled with the user interface, and a controller that is communicatively coupled with the user interface and the motor, respectively. The controller includes a memory storage that includes a plurality of night routines. The controller is configured with a selectable time point and is further configured to select at least one of the plurality of night routines at the selectable time point.