Rockwell Automation Patente

A human-machine interface (HMI) development system leverages a generative AI model to assist in development of HMI projects in accordance with specified functional requirements, which can be provided to the development system as intuitive natural language spoken or written text. The system can formulate and implement HMI project edits during design time based on analysis of this natural language design input. After the HMI project is deployed as a runtime application, the system can also receive and process natural language requests to modify the runtime HMI in accordance with described modification criteria.

A human-machine interface (HMI) development system leverages a generative AI model to assist in development of HMI projects in accordance with specified functional requirements, which can be provided to the development system as intuitive natural language spoken or written text. The system can formulate and implement HMI project edits during design time based on analysis of this natural language design input. After the HMI project is deployed as a runtime application, the system can also receive and process natural language requests to modify the runtime HMI in accordance with described modification criteria.

The present technology relates to soft-starts of alternating current (AC) motors, and particularly, to controlling a soft-start of an AC motor using a configuration of transistors and diodes. A system may include processing circuitry and gating circuitry. The gating circuitry may include a first transistor coupled to an AC voltage supply, a second transistor coupled to the first transistor and to an AC motor, a first diode coupled across current path terminals of the first transistor, and a second diode coupled across current path terminals of the second transistor. The processing circuitry may be configured to monitor voltage and current of the AC voltage supply and provide gating signals to the control terminals of the first and second transistors to control operations of the first and second transistors based at least in part on one or more desired firing angles and the voltage or current of the AC voltage supply.

A system and method for transferring data between safety controllers during qualification establishes a dedicated communication channel between a first communication core executing in a first safety controller and a second communication core executing in a second safety controller. Safety data is prepared for transfer between the first and second safety controllers. Parameters for the dedicated communication channel are transferred from the first communication core to a first safety core executing in the first safety controller. The safety data is transferred from the first safety core to a second safety core executing in the second safety controller. The safety data received at the second safety controller is verified with the second safety core. Operation of a safety task is enabled in tandem on the first safety core and the second safety core upon successful transfer of the safety data from the first safety controller to the second safety controller.

An independent cart system with reduced particulate generation includes a mover configured to travel along a track. The mover includes wheels mounted to the mover, multiple sealing elements, and multiple dampening elements. Each wheel is operative to engage the track as the mover travels along the track, and each wheel includes a rolling bearing. At least one of the sealing elements is mounted adjacent to each rolling bearing for the wheels to prevent particulate generated by the rolling bearing from leaving the mover. The dampening elements reduce vibration on the mover as the mover travels along the track. A platform is mounted to an upper surface of a drive block for each mover by a fastener. At least one rolling bearing is mounted between the fastener and either the platform or the drive block.

An industrial remote support system acts as an interactive assistant that leverages generative augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to provide dynamic support information for industrial assets. The system can suggest solutions to performance problems based on earlier documented solutions, thereby expediting the process of finding resolutions. Users can submit information about the industrial asset for which support is requested via an optical or data scan of the asset using an AR-capable client device. The system enhances a user's prompt with relevant contextual data retrieved from stored documentation as well as relevant past chat histories to assist the system's generative AI model in recommending accurate resolutions to alarm conditions or performance issues described by the user's prompt.

A human-machine interface (HMI) development system leverages a generative Al model to assist in development of HMI projects in accordance with specified functional requirements, which can be provided to the development system as intuitive natural language spoken or written text. The system can formulate and implement HMI project edits during design time based on analysis of this natural language design input. After the HMI project is deployed as a runtime application, the system can also receive and process natural language requests to modify the runtime HMI in accordance with described modification criteria.

An industrial digital insights system acts as an interactive assistant that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to suggest solutions to industrial alarm conditions or other performance problems based on earlier documented solutions, thereby expediting the process of finding alarm resolutions. The system enhances a user's prompt with relevant contextual data retrieved from stored documentation as well as relevant past chat histories to assist the system's generative AI model in recommending accurate resolutions to alarm conditions or performance issues described by the user's prompt. The system can also leverage generative AI to formulate and present proactive asset management recommendations based on analysis of the customer's assets and their usage.

Systems, methods, and media for implementing updates in a control system without losing safety functionality. An example method includes halting execution of a safety function on a secondary control device; updating the secondary control device while the execution of the safety function is halted on the secondary control device; synchronizing second safety data associated with the safety function and stored in memory of the secondary control device with first safety data associated with the safety function and stored in memory of a primary control device after updating the secondary control device; and restarting the execution of the safety function on the secondary control device after synchronizing the second safety data with the first safety data.

A safety function executing at a periodic interval on a pair of controllers is modified during execution by preparing a change record for the safety function in response to an edit request. A communication channel is established between a first core on each controller via a dedicated communication interface. The change record is transmitted between the first core of each controller via the communication channel. The change record is transmitted from the first core to a second core of each controller. Preparing the change record, establishing the communication channel, and transmitting the change record combined execute over multiple periodic intervals for the safety function. The change record is stored in a memory of each controller with corresponding second core for the controller. Storing the change record in the memory of both controllers occurs during a single periodic interval for the safety function.

A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive an indication of a host device in an operational technology (OT) network, wherein the host device is communicatively coupled to a target device via the OT network, deploy an endpoint management agent to the host device, identify a driver based on the target device, wherein the driver enables the endpoint management agent to interface with the target device, transmit the driver to the host device, transmit a command to the host device, wherein the command is for the endpoint management agent to perform a task with the target device via the driver, receive, from the host device, data collected during or following performance of the task, and update a record associated with the target device based on the received data.

A method may include querying, via a processing system, a database comprising a list of cybersecurity threats associated with operational technology (OT) devices within an industrial system. The method may also include identifying OT devices associated with the list of cybersecurity threats, generating scripts configured to confirm that the OT devices are associated with at least one cybersecurity threat of the list of cybersecurity threats, and sending the scripts to the one or more OT devices. The method may then involve determining that the OT devices are associated with the at least one cybersecurity threat based on responses from the OT devices generated based on the scripts, generating instructions for resolving the at least one cybersecurity threat based on a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system, and sending the instructions to one or more devices.

A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive, from a server, a discovery driver that enables an endpoint management agent running on the processing circuitry to perform discovery of devices, software, or both, running on a subnet of an operational technology (OT) network, execute the discovery driver, receive, from the server, a command to perform the discovery of the devices, the software, or both, running on the subnet of the OT network, via the discovery driver, transmit, on the subnet, based on the command, a first discovery query in a first protocol, receive, in response to the first discovery query, first discovery data, transmit, on the subnet, based on the command, a second discovery query in a second protocol, receive, in response to the second discovery query, second discovery data, and transmit, to the server, the first and second discovery data.

An industrial control system includes a first and a second safety program executing in tandem on a first and a second safety controller, respectively. A first and a second fault condition is detected with the first or the second safety program, respectively. A third fault condition is detected by either the first or second safety programs. Monitoring for the third fault condition by the first or second safety programs is disabled upon detecting the first or second fault condition, respectively. A safe operating state is entered when either the first or second safety program detects the third fault condition. The industrial control system operates at a first safety level while both the first and second safety programs monitor the industrial control system for the third fault condition and at a second safety level, lower than first safety level, when either the first or second fault condition is detected.

This disclosure describes interfacing techniques between client devices (110) and industrial automation devices (160) in industrial automation environments. The client devices described herein are configured to submit capabilities requests to an industrial automation devices to determine capabilities and build device profiles, according to some implementations. A user may configure options of the capabilities by making configuration selections within a user interface of the client device. When configuration selections are received via the user interface, the client device submits command requests to the industrial automation devices to configure the capabilities.

Systems and methods described herein may improve machine learning operations capable of being applied to many systems, like continuous processes and/or motion devices, without use of a process state identification data from a control system. By identifying process state based on acquired data, such as sensed data, configuration data, and/or motion profiles, or the like, a control system may determine which process state an asset is operated within and select from one or more device models corresponding to that process state to obtain an indication of expected asset operation developed earlier based on in situ training operations. When the control system is disposed within the asset, this analysis may be performed within the "four walls" of the asset, enabling relatively robust analytics to occur locally at the asset as opposed to transmitting the sensing data up into a cloud or the like for analysis.

A power converter having a dynamic bus controller to control a rectifier DC output for motoring and regenerating power flow directions, in which the controller controls a DC bus voltage between first and second regenerating voltage limits and limits power at the DC output in an increasing fashion with increasing values of the DC bus voltage according to a regenerating power limit parameter for a regenerating direction of power flow at a DC output. For a motoring direction of power flow at the DC output, the controller controls the DC bus voltage at the DC output between first and second motoring voltage limits and limits the power at the DC output in a decreasing fashion with increasing values of the DC bus voltage according to a motoring power limit parameter.

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An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) comprises a development interface that affords a user a great deal of control over the editing tools, workspace canvases, and project information rendered at a given time. The industrial IDE system also includes various graphical features that assist the user to easily discern the various online and offline stales of industrial control programs developed using the IDE system. Collaboration tools supported by the IDE system facilitate communicative and coordinated editing of control programs by multiple developers, and the IDE system conveys the resulting online and offline states of these programs using intuitive graphical indicators.

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Systems, methods, and media for crowdsourcing engineering designs for industrial control products. The method includes receiving orders for a first industrial control product including a first option pack that is a first variation to a base design and a second industrial control product including a second option pack that is a second variation to the base design, receiving engineering design files for the first option pack and engineering design files for the second option pack, and storing the engineering design files in an industrial design library. The method further includes receiving a third order for a third industrial control product including the first and second option packs, automatically generating engineering design files for the third industrial control product using the engineering design files for the first option pack and the second option pack and providing the engineering design files for the third industrial control product to a manufacturing system.

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A method for security and safety of an industrial operation includes receiving sensor information from a plurality of sensors of an industrial operation. Sensor information from at least a portion of the plurality sensors is used for functionality of a plurality of components of the industrial operation. The method includes monitoring data traffic of the industrial operation, and deriving a baseline signature from the sensor information. The baseline signature encompasses a range of normal operating conditions. The method includes identifying an abnormal operating condition of the industrial operation based on a comparison between additional sensor information from the plurality of sensors and the baseline signature and identifying an abnormal data traffic condition. The method includes determining that the abnormal operating condition correlates to the abnormal data traffic condition, and sending a security alert in response to determining that the abnormal operating condition correlates to the abnormal data traffic condition.

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An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. The industrial IDE also permits localized development of system projects, and provides an infrastructure for intelligently brokering between conflicting edits submitted to common portions of the system project. To facilitate effective collaboration via efficient communication between developers, the IDE system can be configured to send push notifications to personal client devices in response to relevant events originating within the development environment relating to development of an automation system project.

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