Abstract: A system and method are provided for managing infrastructures of an industrial system. The method includes receiving a desired state that models a state of two or more of infrastructures of the industrial system, wherein the two or more infrastructures are a virtual infrastructure of the industrial system and at least one a physical infrastructure and a network infrastructure of the industrial system. The method further includes receiving a current state that models a current state of the two or more infrastructures of the industrial system, determining a difference between the desired state and the current state, and causing, as a function of the determined difference, one or more changes to the current state of the infrastructures of the industrial system, wherein determining the difference and causing the one or more changes involves the two or more infrastructures.

Abstract: Systems/methods for monitoring and management of field devices and equipment at the edge provide an interworking component that runs on or at an edge device to facilitate monitoring and management of the field devices and equipment. In particular, the edge based interworking component allows operations, administration, and management (OA&M) services to be performed for both the hardware making up the devices as well as the operating systems and software applications running on the hardware. In some embodiments, OA&M services includes one or more IT orchestration services for the hardware as well as the operating systems and software applications running on the hardware. Such an arrangement allows monitoring and management of the field devices and equipment that have heretofore been performed by traditional control systems to be partly or entirely pushed down to the edge and/or pushed up to the cloud, depending on the particular implementation.