Abstract: A method for configuring a modular safety switching apparatus having electronic modules comprises: a) selecting a configuration data set of the apparatus from a database and transmitting the configuration data set to a computing apparatus, wherein the configuration data set is processed by a computer program to generate a target configuration of the apparatus and the electronic modules; b) displaying the target configuration; c) plugging one of the electronic modules into one of the module slots of the module row; d) setting a rotary switch position of one or more rotary switches of the electronic module; e) determining an actual configuration of the electronic module configured according to c) and d); f) comparing the actual configuration with the target configuration; g) displaying whether a deviation exists between the actual configuration and the target configuration; and h) repeating c) to g) for each additional electronic module.

Abstract: An industrial automation system may include a first computing device that may receive operational technology (OT) data from industrial automation devices of an industrial automation system, determine identities of the industrial automation devices based on the OT data, determine that the OT data includes data attributes having variations as compared to additional OT data, transmit the identifiers and the data attributes to a second computing device in response to determining that the data attributions have the variations, receive containers including updated digital representations of the industrial automation devices from the second computing device, execute the containers to output additional data attributes, and send commands to the industrial automation devices to modify processes based the additional data attributes.

Abstract: A building management system includes a controller that is configured to provide a natural language interaction on a remote user interface via an I/O port and to receive one or more building management requests from one or more users as well as to ascertain whether the received one or more building management requests can be carried out by the building management system. The one or more building system components of the building are instructed to carry out the received one or more building management requests unless one or more building management requests cannot be carried out, in which case one or more natural language messages on the remote user interface via the I/O port that informs the user that one or more of the building management requests cannot be carried out.

Abstract: An intelligent identification and warning method for an uncertain object of a production line in a digital twin environment, includes: establishing a model library for uncertain physical objects from a non-production line system; adding attribute data to the uncertain physical objects from the non-production line system; importing an established model library and added attribute data for the uncertain physical objects from the non-production line system into a model library of an existing DT production line system; performing auto-detection on an uncertain physical object entering a production line system; performing auto-detection on an actual size of the uncertain physical object entering the production line system; warning a danger for an unsafe object by means of voice prompting, system alarming and information pushing; matching a corresponding three-dimensional (3D) model in the established model library for a safe object; and loading a matched 3D model to the DT production line system.

Abstract: A system for wireless monitoring of operating and production parameters of a clipping machine for food production having a sealed housing protected at least against moisture. The system comprises at least one measuring and control device for controlling the production process and measuring the operating and/or production parameters of the machine, sensors for determining operating parameters of the machine, devices for determining production parameters of the machine, at least one wireless communication device, a user interface and display device, and at least one smart device having at least an optical reading unit, wherein the at least one wireless communication device is configured to generate login details for wireless communication and encrypt the login details into a binary code which can be read by the optical reading unit of the smart device via the user interface and display device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for identifying and parsing an industrial control protocol based on an industrial gateway. The industrial gateway captures, through a serial port and a network port, messages sent from a host computer and a lower computer to the industrial gateway, extracts features representing different protocol types and protocol fields from the messages, and identifies and parses the messages based on protocol character features.

Abstract: “Just in time” operational techniques allow equipment of swimming pools or spas to achieve identified water temperatures at specified times. A user may supply information such as a desired water temperature (i.e. a temperature set point) and a time at which the water is desired to be at the desired temperature. After receiving the user-supplied information, software may account as well for certain environmental conditions to devise a suitable schedule for controlling heating of the water of the swimming pool or spa. Adjustments may be made to the schedule based on then-current water temperatures or other changed conditions.

Abstract: A non-transitory, computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed, by one or more processors associated with a first input/output (I/O) component in an industrial automation system, cause the processors to perform operations. The first I/O component may operate in a single duplex (“suplex”) mode of operation. The operations include detecting a second I/O component in the industrial automation system, determining that a first hardware configuration, a first software configuration, or both, associated with the first I/O component is compatible with a second hardware configuration, a second software configuration, or both, associated with the second I/O component, and reconfiguring the first I/O component to operate in a duplex mode of operation.

Abstract: A system for performing necking operations on a can body includes a necker machine and a positioning system. The necker machine includes a frame; a processing arrangement having a plurality of components movable relative to the frame for performing the necking operations on the can body, and a drive motor having a shaft operatively coupled to the processing arrangement for moving the processing arrangement relative to the frame. The positioning system includes: an encoder associated with the drive motor for monitoring a rotational displacement of the shaft and a controller in communication with the encoder and the drive motor. The controller is structured and programmed to: receive an input from a user, the input being indicative of a desired movement of the processing arrangement relative to the frame, and to operate the drive motor using feedback from the encoder such that the desired movement of the processing arrangement is achieved.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an industrial Internet of Things for regulating an inventory of accessories and control methods. The industrial Internet of Things comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform interacting in sequence. The service platform and the management platform both use an independent arrangement, and the sensor network platform uses a centralized arrangement. The object platform is configured to include different accessory supply devices, each of which is configured with a data collector. The data collector may obtain accessories storage and consumption corresponding to the accessories supply devices and upload the collecting data in real-time.

Abstract: Provided is a flow rate control device capable of improving accumulated flow rate error. The flow rate control device of the present disclosure includes: a flow rate meter that measures a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path; a flow rate regulating valve that regulates the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the flow path; and a control part that controls an opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve based on a measurement result of the flow rate meter, includes: a closing function that controls the opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve with an instantaneous flow rate value and closes with a set accumulated flow rate value; and an accumulated value prediction function that monitors the current opening degree of the flow rate regulating valve and the instantaneous flow rate value all the time, and starts a closing operation of the flow rate regulating valve at a time point when the accumulated flow rate value reaches an early closing flow rate value.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for autonomously recovering a machine comprising one or more modules. An error message from the machine is received and, based on the error message, a first module of the one or more modules to replace is determined, wherein the first module has a first type. An autonomous vehicle is instructed to remove, from the machine, the first module. The autonomous vehicle is instructed to install, at the machine, a second module of the first type.

Abstract: A method is provided for providing process protocols for processes carried out by a number of physical devices. A sensor assigned to a physical device detects measured values. Time stamps are assigned to the detected measured values, and the process protocol is generated from the measured values detected by the sensor, from an assignment of the detected measured values to the sensor and/or to the at least one device, and from the time stamp assigned to the measured values. The process protocol has a number of data sets, and each data set of the process protocol has a first attribute, where a unique identification of a process is stored and by which the process step is assigned to the process, a second attribute, where an identification of the process step is stored, and a third attribute, where a sequence of the process steps within a process is stored.

Abstract: A system construction assistance program causes a computer to execute a history creation step, an input step, a storage step, a search step, and a display step of displaying action information searched. The history creation step is for receiving a plurality of pieces of setting information indicating settings of production devices and storing the setting information. The input step is for receiving an input of action information indicating an action against an abnormality. The storage step is for storing the action information and the change content of the setting information accompanying occurrence of the abnormality in association with each other. The search step is for searching, in a case of occurrence of an abnormality in the production devices, for the action information for the abnormality occurring in the production devices from among the stored action information, using as a search condition the change content of the setting information.

Abstract: In a production system, a control unit controls a first apparatus configured to start to operate after a waiting time and a second apparatus configured to starting to operation after a waiting time. A first sensor outputs a value that changes in response to operation of the first apparatus. A second sensor outputs a value that changes in response to operation of the second apparatus. The control unit compares a first time period from a starting of the operation of the first apparatus to an occurrence of a change in the value of the first sensor with a predetermined first threshold value, and compares a second time period from a starting of the operation of the second apparatus to an occurrence of a change in the value of the second sensor with a predetermined second threshold value.

Abstract: A system for recommending a maximum quantity of work in process, in which one or more processors of a distributed storage device are configured to execute: acquiring at least part of production data stored in the distributed storage device, the production data includes quantity records and cycle time records of a production line in time periods, and the cycle time record of each time period includes a cycle time at each process station of the production line in said each time period; clustering the quantity records to obtain a plurality of initial classifications, each initial classification includes at least one quantity record; determining a portion of the initial classifications as preferred classifications; determining the maximum quantity of work in process at each process station; and a display device is configured to display the maximum quantity of work in process at each process station determined by an analysis device.

Abstract: Provided are a system, method, and computer program product for optimizing a manufacturing process. The method includes receiving manufacturing data associated with a manufacturing process for manufacturing a product. The manufacturing data may include data from a plurality of data sources associated with a plurality of stages of the manufacturing process, and the manufacturing data may include values for a plurality of parameters including at least one process parameter value and at least one quality parameter value. The method includes generating a time-sequenced data structure including the manufacturing data and transforming the time-sequenced data structure to a positionally-dimensioned data structure based on timing data associated with the plurality of stages. The method includes determining a new value for the at least one process parameter value based on the positionally-dimensioned data structure and at least one algorithm and optimizing the manufacturing process based on the new value.

Abstract: An arrangement of multiple environmental control systems for a multi-unit structure has a first environmental control system installed in a first unit, a second environmental control system installed in a second unit, a system monitor in communication with each of the environmental control systems and a firewall. Each environmental control system has a control unit coupled to the system monitor through the firewall that prevents unauthorized devices from accessing the respective control unit and a HVAC system device coupled to the respective control unit through the firewall. For each unit, a local user device that is located inside the unit is coupled to the control unit through a local communication interface, and an external user device that is located outside the unit communicates with the control unit through the firewall.

Abstract: A data collection and analysis system includes a communication unit and a data acquisition unit. The communication unit collects data indicating an internal state or operation state of an equipment item. The data acquisition unit acquires, from the communication unit, the data synchronized for each of groups according to setting information, the setting information being information in which the groups, a data acquisition timing, and a storage location of the data are set for a channel allocated to the data to be acquired from the equipment item, each of the groups bringing together a plurality of the channels, the data acquisition timing being a timing at which the data are acquired from the communication unit.

Abstract: An integrated front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant operations system integrates automated and manual restaurant operations into an order-based system. The system interfaces with disparate devices and systems to provide order-based monitoring and control of operations within an establishment.