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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080300709 | PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM USING SPATIALLY DEPENDENT DATA FOR CONTROLLING A WEB-BASED PROCESS System and method for controlling a process with spatially dependent conditions for producing a product with spatially dependent properties, e.g., a web/sheet-based process for producing a web/sheet-based product. Input data comprising a plurality of input data sets are... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080300694 | OPERATOR INTERFACE TERMINAL FOR CORRELATING DATA POINTS TO TIME POINTS An operator interface terminal receives individual data points from a machine at individual time points. The operator interface terminal correlates the individual data points to the individual time points as the data points are received. The operator interface terminal ... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080204042 | NETWORKED POWER LINE PARAMETER ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining power line parameter of a system. Specifically, there is provided a system for determining comprising a networked device including a voltage perturbation circuit coupled to a voltage source and configured to perturb th... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080203954 | INDUCTION MOTOR ANALYSIS AND CONTROL METHOD An induction motor controller that may include three phase paths leading from a power input to a power output, a solid-state switching device interposed between the power input and the power output on each of the three phase paths, a voltage sensor coupled to two of the... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080202899 | POWER ELECTRONIC SWITCHING DEVICE WITH LAMINATED BUS A bus system is disclosed for use with switching devices, such as power electronic devices. The system includes generally parallel bus elements that define electrical reference planes, such as for a dc bus. The bus elements are separated from one another by insulative l... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080126377 | AGGREGATING AUDIT INFORMATION WITH FIELD CONDITIONS The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates assessing unexpected field conditions based upon the verification of an audit log. A sensing component can monitor field conditions with respect to an industrial environment. An analysis compone... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080082577 | MODULE CLASSIFICATION AND SEARCHING FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS A search component for an industrial automation system is provided. The search component includes one or more modules that employ resources and logic to expose functionality of the modules while providing generic interfaces to external components of the modules. A class... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080082284 | SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEM An industrial controller performance monitoring system includes a detector connected to a controller. The detector is optically coupled to an output, such as a display, of equipment under test and the controller is configured to receive a signal from the equipment under... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20070205861 | RFID/biometric area protection The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a safety mechanism associated with a protective zone in an industrial automation environment. An radio frequency identification (RFID) component can receive data from an RFID tag to ... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070205860 | Electronic token to provide sequential event control and monitoring The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates initiating a sequence within an industrial automation environment. A radio frequency identification (RFID) component can receive data from an RFID tag. An event control component can invoke at... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070204323 | Auto-detection capabilities for out of the box experience Various embodiments are described in connection with auto-detection capabilities of a device in an industrial environment. The device can behave differently in a secured environment than it would in an unsecured environment. If in a secured environment, the device can o... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070199047 | Audit trail in a programmable safety instrumented system via biometric signature(s) System(s) and method(s) that facilitate utilizing biometric sensors (e.g., fingerprint, hand scan, voice recognition . . . ) in manufacturing systems in order to maintain accurate safety audit trails. A safety audit system, utilizing a biometric sensing device, facilita... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070198106 | Optimizing availability and safety by reconfiguring and auto-adjusting redundancy The claimed subject matter provides industrial automation systems and/or methods that configure available redundancy. An interface component can obtain input data. Additionally, an optimization component can generate a voting configuration that allocates available redun... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070194944 | Systems and methods that evaluate distance to potential hazards utilizing overlapping sensing zones The claimed subject matter provides industrial automation systems and/or methods that evaluate a proximity to potential hazards. A plurality of sensors can provide redundant detected data. Additionally, a proximity evaluation component can evaluate the detected data, de... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070194097 | Data acquisition and processing system for risk assessment Systems and methods of risk management that employ a risk assessment component to continuously update risk estimation associated with a machine of a manufacturing system. A data input component is provided for receiving a measured parameter associated with a current mac... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070186010 | Extending industrial control system communications capabilities Systems and methods are provided for communications across multiple networks in a substantially transparent and seamless manner. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a communications component to facilitate communications in an... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070142926 | Remote monitoring and control of an I/O module An industrial automation monitoring and/or control system comprises a receiver component that receives a request for a web page associated with a network adaptor. An execution component executes instantiated objects within the web page to effectuate at least one of moni... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070079355 | Data perspectives in controller system and production management systems A programmable logic controller is disclosed that filters and presents to a user data that conforms to a hierarchically structured data model. The programmable logic controller through utilization of an input component that receives data and a filter component that filt... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070079028 | Information technology integration with automation systems The subject disclosure pertains to transparent communications in an industrial automation environment amongst automation system components and IT systems. Systems and methods are provided that send and receive data to, from and amongst automation devices and transaction... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078966 | Presentation of automation data The subject invention pertains to presentation of data. A base presentation can supply coarse data concerning an industrial automation system, for instance. Specific base presentation items can subsequently be identified begetting production of more granular information... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078956 | Embedding controllers and devices with data to facilitate up-to-date control and configuration information An industrial automation system comprising a processor with an updating component coupled to automation devices via a network. The updating component reads control information from machine readable representations of the devices and populates a data structure with the c... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078862 | Data federation with industrial control systems An organizational model of a hierarchical system can be distributed across various elements of an enterprise. Such elements include representations of the system that are maintained on higher-level business servers and other representations that serve control elements o... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078824 | Indexing and searching manufacturing process related information Indexing agents and/or data brokers are leveraged to provide search query results related to manufacturing processes. The indexing agents allow different manufacturing configuration data types to be “sub-indexed,” allowing them to be easily searched. In one instance... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078809 | Robust data availability system having decentralized storage and multiple access paths Architecture that provides high availability (quick, robust, redundant) data to users by the use of peer-to-peer technology, where the decentralized storage and multi-access paths provide the complete data set without dependence on a specific or pre-defined data source ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078736 | Enabling transactional mechanisms in an automated controller system The claimed subject matter provides a controller that facilitates implementing a transaction between a controller and a business system within an industrial automation environment. An interface component can facilitate receipt of data associated with a business system a... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078658 | HMI presentation layer configuration system A human-machine interface generation system comprises a voice recognition component that receives voice commands relating to generation of a human-machine interface within an industrial automation environment. The voice recognition component further translates the voice... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078655 | Report generation system with speech output A text- or data-to-speech architecture that communicates speech to a user based on data and/or input text. In an industrial automation environment, the input text can be generated by the automation system from alarm logs, notification messages, status messages, operatio... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078555 | Automation system unified data access for disparate data sources Historical and real-time data access is leveraged to provide unified data access for interacting with manufacturing process entities such as, for example, process overview displays, charting systems, reporting systems, logging systems, and/or recipe systems and the like... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078537 | Incremental association of metadata to production data The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing metadata appended to data related to an industrial automation environment with a controller that is associated with a hierarchically structured data model. An interface component can f... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078536 | Production monitoring and control system having organizational structure-based presentation layer A human-machine interface generation system comprises a reception component that receives a request to generate a human-machine interface relating to at least one of an industrial system, device, process, and sub-process and parameters associated with an initiator of th... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070078535 | System and method for identifying particularized equipment information of interest to varied users in an industrial automation environment Systems and methods are provided that enable various interface applications that more efficiently communicate data to users in an industrial control system. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes a base presentation component to ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070076724 | Extended address space capability for an industrial protocol Systems and methods are provided for communicating with control objects according to a singular and unified address space. In one aspect, an industrial communications system is provided. The system includes a global address protocol that can be employed to communicate w... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070075128 | Access to distributed databases via pointer stored in RFID tag Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in a data management scheme that combines both distributed as well as a hierarchical (object-oriented) data management structure. The hierarchical databases will store data records such that each or selected entities of t... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070074962 | SAFETY SWITCH A safety switch assembly includes a body constructed to be mounted in a support structure and generally enclose the operative structure of the safety switch. The safety switch assembly includes an actuator constructed to pass through one of the support structure or the ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070074280 | Internet friendly proxy server extending legacy software connectivity An industrial automation proxy server comprises an interface that receives data related to legacy software, where the data is associated with a legacy protocol. Additionally, the industrial automation proxy server includes a protocol transformation component that conver... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070073750 | Editing lifecycle and deployment of objects in an industrial automation environment An editor in an industrial automation environment comprises an input component that receives modification data relating to at least one of lifecycle and deployment of an object, the object is associated with a programmable logic controller and configured in accordance w... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070073426 | Editing and configuring device The claimed subject matter provides an editor system for employment in an industrial automation environment that enhances programmability of at least one of a controller and an industrial process. An interface component can facilitate the receipt of instructions relatin... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070061018 | Network communications in an industrial automation environment An industrial automation device comprises a reception component that receives a request for data resident within the industrial automation device. An encoding component communicatively coupled to the reception component that receives a binary bit stream associated with ... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070055470 | RFID architecture in an industrial controller environment An RFID reader and/or writer module in an industrial controller (e.g., PLC). The RFID module interfaces internally to the controller for tight integration therewith. The RFID module can also be part of a controller communications framework and as a standalone module wit... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070052540 | Sensor fusion for RFID accuracy System(s) and method(s) to increase the accuracy and efficiency of an RFID system is provided. A system includes an RFID tag that receives a signal from an RFID reader and an RFID tag that receives a signal from an RFID reader. The system further includes at least one s... | 03/08/2007 |
