Provided is an information processing device including at least one processor, the at least one processor executing a first obtaining process for obtaining accessory equipment data transmitted from each of pieces of accessory equipment included in an accessory equipment group, a first converting process for converting the accessory equipment data, which has been obtained in the first obtaining process, into a particular format, and a first providing process for providing, to main equipment, the accessory equipment data whose format has been converted in the first converting process.

A power distribution grid for a facility, such as a data center, is located within the facility. The power distribution grid includes a plurality of power transport elements arranged in a grid pattern and nodes located at intersections of the grid pattern. Electrical loads are supplied power via respective nodes of the power distribution grid. Also, each node is supplied power from more than two transport elements, such that one or more transport elements can fail and electrical loads connected to a particular node associated with the failed transport elements continue to receive electrical power supplied to the particular node from at least two different transport elements.

Systems and methods for providing external bus protection for programmable logic devices (PLDs) are disclosed. An example system includes a programmable I/O bus configured to interface with a user device over an external bus interface coupled to a PLD; a bus protection circuit arrangement integrated with the programmable I/O interface and configured to provide I/O bus supply voltage protection for the programmable I/O interface; and a bus protection control signal generator. The bus protection control signal generator generates a default bus protection control signal for the bus protection circuit arrangement of the PLD prior to completion of a power ramp performed by the user device; an intermediate bus protection control signal for the PLD prior to completion of loading a PLD configuration into a PLD fabric of the PLD; and an operational bus protection control signal for the PLD.

A farming control system for monitoring and controlling one or more contained farms is described herein. The farming control system includes a local system having a plurality of modules to obtain crop data and perform farming operations on crops. The modules transmit the crop data to and receive the farming operations from a local controller, or a cloud controller when the local controller fails. The local system and the cloud system may use machine learning based on the crop data to determine the farming operations to be performed.

Apparatus and methods for flexible input/output signaling over a same signaling channel are described. A programmable interface circuit includes a signaling channel that can be adapted, prior to use or during operation, for transmission and/or reception of different types of analog and digital signals. The interface circuit can be used for communications between an isolating communication controller and components of a machine that use diverse signaling types.

Various systems and methods for implementing a software defined industrial system are described herein. For example, an orchestrated system of distributed nodes may run an application, including modules implemented on the distributed nodes. In response to a node failing, a module may be redeployed to a replacement node. In an example, self-descriptive control applications and software modules are provided in the context of orchestratable distributed systems. The self-descriptive control applications may be executed by an orchestrator or like control device and use a module manifest to generate a control system application. For example, an edge control node of the industrial system may include a system on a chip including a microcontroller (MCU) to convert IO data. The system on a chip includes a central processing unit (CPU) in an initial inactive state, which may be changed to an activated state in response an activation signal.

An input unit (20) is connectable to a programmable controller (10) and an output unit (30) to share a shared time with the programmable controller (10) and the output unit (30). The input unit (20) includes a data sharer (220) that shares, in a periodic time segment defined by the shared time, data in a storage area (214) with the programmable controller (10) and the output unit (30), and an input (240) that acquires input information input from an input device (20A). The data sharer (220) transmits, in the periodic time segment, transmission information to the output unit (30). The transmission information is the input information or indicates a result of a predetermined computation process performed on the input information.

An HMI renders on an HMI screen a process line which includes: a movable looper group part obtained by grouping at least one movable roll part and a plurality of line parts connected to the movable roll part; and a plurality of fixed roll parts connected to the movable looper group part. The HMI continuously obtains a process line length from an output signal of a monitoring target device. The HMI calculates a looper movement amount by dividing a difference between a process line total length and the process line length by the number of parts in the plurality of line parts which are shared by the movable looper group part with the plurality of fixed roll parts. The HMI changes a relative position between the plurality of fixed roll parts and the movable looper group part on the HMI screen according to the looper movement amount.

Apparatus and methods for flexible input/output signaling over a same signaling channel are described. A programmable interface circuit includes a signaling channel that can be adapted, prior to use or during operation, for transmission and/or reception of different types of analog and digital signals. The interface circuit can be used for communications between an isolating communication controller and components of a machine that use diverse signaling types.

A method of operating an intelligent programmable logic controller (PLC) as part of a production process within an automation system includes the intelligent PLC receiving automation system data and a semantic context model comprising a plurality of ontologies providing formal specifications of conceptual entities associated with the automation system. The intelligent PLC creates one or more semantic annotations for the automation system data using the semantic context model. These semantic annotations are stored along with the automation system data in a non-volatile storage medium included in the intelligent PLC.