Abstract: A communication and control system for enabling and controlling communications for execution of one or more tasks, functions, and/or operations within a facility can include devices that utilize disparate operating systems and/or software programs, and engines resident on or accessed by the devices. The engines be can operable to access one or more device-neutral workflows that have a set of instructions for directing performance of a selected one or more of the tasks, functions, and/or operations to be performed at the facility. The engines further can translate and communicate the set of instructions to initiate and cause the devices to carry out the set of instructions thereon and enable the devices to perform or execute the selected tasks, functions, and/or operations at the facility.