A system can provide automation with at least a computing device receiving an automation model via a graphical user interface that is converted to computer code with a controller of the computing device. A parser module of the computing device can remove portions of the computer code to create broadcast parameters that are subsequently transmitted to an automation device. A de-parser module of the automation device may translate the broadcast parameters into an automation process that is executed with the automation device to physically enact the automation model with the automation device.

A control device includes at least a first task that has a first priority including processing execution performed by a program execution part and a command calculation part, a second task that has a second priority, lower than the first priority, including processing execution performed by a parsing part, and a third task that has a third priority including execution of a processing content different from the first task and the second task are set in a scheduler. The control device further includes a priority changing part monitoring a processing state of the parsing part, and when the processing state of the parsing part meets a predetermined condition, changing the second priority set to the second task corresponding to the condition.

A method includes holding multiple primitives of a communication protocol, which is used for managing a controller that controls one or more field devices in an industrial control network. Multiple scenarios are defined, each corresponding to one or more respective sequences of primitives exchanged with the controller over the industrial control network for achieving a respective user-level operation. Multiple parsing rules for deriving the sequences of primitives from the respective scenarios are further defined. A sequence of primitives that were exchanged with the controller over the industrial control network is intercepted. An attempt to reconstruct from the intercepted sequence of primitives, using the parsing rules, one or more scenarios that each corresponds to the intercepted sequence of primitives is carried out, and, in response to succeeding in reconstructing one or more scenarios, extracting user-level information from the reconstructed scenarios.

A configuration of a control device capable of efficiently operating multiple types of programs in different execution formats on a single control device is provided. At least a first task that has a first priority including processing execution performed by a program execution part and a command calculation part, a second task that has a second priority, lower than the first priority, including processing execution performed by a parsing part, and a third task that has a third priority including execution of a processing content different from the first task and the second task are set in a scheduler. The control device further includes a priority changing part monitoring a processing state of the parsing part, and when the processing state of the parsing part meets a predetermined condition, changing the second priority set to the second task corresponding to the condition.

A system can provide automation with at least a computing device receiving an automation model via a graphical user interface that is converted to computer code with a controller of the computing device. A parser module of the computing device can remove portions of the computer code to create broadcast parameters that are subsequently transmitted to an automation device. A de-parser module of the automation device may translate the broadcast parameters into an automation process that is executed with the automation device to physically enact the automation model with the automation device.

A method includes holding multiple primitives of a communication protocol, which is used for managing a controller that controls one or more field devices in an industrial control network. Multiple scenarios are defined, each corresponding to one or more respective sequences of primitives exchanged with the controller over the industrial control network for achieving a respective user-level operation. Multiple parsing rules for deriving the sequences of primitives from the respective scenarios are further defined. A sequence of primitives that were exchanged with the controller over the industrial control network is intercepted. An attempt to reconstruct from the intercepted sequence of primitives, using the parsing rules, one or more scenarios that each corresponds to the intercepted sequence of primitives is carried out, and, in response to succeeding in reconstructing one or more scenarios, extracting user-level information from the reconstructed scenarios.