A process control system includes a plurality of field devices operating to control a process in a process plant. A communication infrastructure couples the plurality of field devices to a software-defined control system (SDCS) that receives data from the field devices and transmits instructions to the field devices. A data cluster, executing the SDCS, includes a plurality of compute nodes, each of which includes a processor executing an operating system, a memory, and a communication resource coupled to one or more other compute nodes in the data cluster. A plurality of instantiated containers, each of which is an isolated execution environment within the operating system of the compute node on which the container is instantiated, cooperate to facilitate execution of a control strategy in the SDCS. At least one of the containers in the SDCS is pinned to a component in the SDCS.

An I/O server service interacts with multiple containerized controller services each implementing the same control routine to control the same portion of the same plant. The I/O server service may provide the same controller inputs to each of the containerized controller services (e.g., representing measurements obtained by field devices and transmitted by the field devices to the I/O server service). Each containerized controller service executes the same control routine to generate a set of controller outputs. The I/O server service receives each set of controller outputs and forwards an “active” set to the appropriate field devices. The I/O server service and other services, such as an orchestrator service, may continuously evaluate performance and resource utilization in the control system, and may dynamically activate and deactivate controller services as appropriate. The I/O server service may interact with other containerized services, such as containerized historian services or workstation services, to facilitate control in the plant.

An input/output unit for data acquisition in a field bus system includes a microcontroller that has at least one integrated synchronous serial bus interface and a control device for direct memory access. A signal source for a digital signal is connectable to a digital data input master input, slave output (MISO) of the at least one synchronous serial bus interface. The first synchronous serial interface reads in the digital signal present at the data input MISO at a first clock rate that corresponds to a data transmission rate of the at least one synchronous serial bus interface. The control device for direct memory access forwards the read-in data words to a buffer memory, and periodically fetches the read-in data words from the buffer memory and forwards the read-in data words to a second synchronous serial bus interface or to another bus interface.

Disclosed is a plug-in radio module for automation engineering for wireless data transmission, having at least a wired interface for connecting to a corresponding wired field device interface of a field device and radio module electronics having a radio antenna, wherein the radio module electronics are configured to use the wired interfaces to query at least one current value of the field device and to use the current value to adapt a paging interval and/or a radio data width for the wireless data transmission as appropriate, so that the radio module electronics perform an adapted-power mode of operation in which the wireless data transmission is matched to the power currently made available to the field device.

Disclosed is a system for collecting data from an automated plant having a field device connected for communication and for exchanging telegrams with a superordinate unit by means of a communication loop using a first protocol. The system includes a hat rail; and a terminal module mounted on the hat rail and embodied to monitor telegrams transmitted from the field device to the superordinate unit via the communication loop. The terminal module is further embodied to convert monitored telegrams into a second protocol and to output the converted telegrams. The system further includes a head module mounted on the hat rail and connected with the terminal module. The electronics unit of the head module is embodied to convert telegrams output from the terminal module into a third protocol to output them via the first network interface.

A method for configuring an interface device connected to a control device and a field device, wherein the method includes receiving a first machine learning application having a plurality of logical components connected in a pipeline, where the first machine learning application serves to analyze a signal from the field device utilizing a first machine learning model, generating a plurality of code blocks utilizing a translator based on the plurality of logical components of the first machine learning application, connecting the plurality of code blocks in accordance with the pipeline of the first machine learning application to generate a first output from the signal from the field device, and deploying the connected code blocks on firmware of the interface device including creating a virtual port connectable to the control device, and where the virtual port serves to transmits the first output to the control device.

The invention provides a method for identifying a sequence of events associated with a condition in a process plant using a control system. The method comprises recording process data, which is timestamped, and recording audio input from each personnel of a plurality of personnel of the process plant. The audio input is synchronized according to time with the process data. A keyword is identified from the temporally synchronized content of each audio input, and compared with the process information of one or more of an event and an equipment, for identifying at least one of a new process information and a supplementary process information related to the condition. One or more of the new process information and the supplementary process information identified for each keyword, and the plurality of events identified from the process data, are used for identifying the sequence of events associated with the condition.

The present disclosure relates to a method for configuring step by step for transmission of data from a field device to at least one target system, comprising the steps of: creating a configuration comprising at least one subconfiguration for the field device and a subconfiguration for the target system; transmitting the configuration from the field device to the target system; and transmitting the data from the field device to the target system, wherein the data are forwarded, processed, stored or discarded based on the subconfiguration of the field device in the field device, and wherein the data are processed or stored in the target system based on the subconfiguration of the target system.

A POS system includes a plurality of electronic device, at least a specified one of which automatically generates and updates a history data at intervals, and an intelligent device installed in the specified electronic device for automatically updating and showing a life percentage information of the specified electronic device according to the history data. The intelligent device includes: a signal transmission module electrically connected to the specified electronic device for receiving the history data therethrough; a processing unit generating a life percentage value according to the history data of the specified electronic device, and issuing a life percentage status signal indicative of the life percentage value; a storage module for storing the history data; and a prompt displaying module visibly disposed for displaying the life percentage information in response to the life percentage status signal.

A cable processing machine control system includes middleware for data exchange with data brokers of multiple cable processing machines, and a wearable communication device for data exchange with the middleware. When a user of the cable processing machine control system has logged into the wearable communication device, depending on a role of the user that is assigned by the middleware, different information is displayed for the user on the wearable communication device via the cable processing machines assigned to the assigned role of the user and/or different action possibilities for controlling the cable processing machines assigned to the assigned role of the user are provided for the user on the wearable communication device.