Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system and method capable of generating an operations management interface enabling monitoring of distributed components of a process control application. The operations management interface can include a customizable display enabling operators to prepare decisions based on a context-based three-dimensional representation of the distributed components. The operations management interface display includes controls for manipulating graphically displayed representations of data rendered by the distributed components, and an interface for exchanging requests and data through data links to one or more distributed data-linked components. Some selectable displayed information in the operations management interface window can include locations, interconnection layout and hierarchy, and specifications, and datasheets of distributed components.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system and method capable of generating an operations management interface enabling monitoring of distributed components of a process control application. The operations management interface can include a customizable display enabling operators to prepare decisions based on a context-based three-dimensional representation of the distributed components. The operations management interface display includes controls for manipulating graphically displayed representations of data rendered by the distributed components, and an interface for exchanging requests and data through data links to one or more distributed data-linked components. Some selectable displayed information in the operations management interface window can include locations, interconnection layout and hierarchy, and specifications, and datasheets of distributed components.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cross-over conversion in data transfer applications, such as SerDes. Signal routing in such environments is not trivial. Thus, it may not be possible to preserve the physical alignment of the tracks running between devices without recourse to track cross-over.

Abstract: Articles, particularly eggs, are conveyed after grading along a moving cup conveyor from which they are selectively deposited at different loading stations according to size. At each loading station the eggs are dropped into different pockets of a collator which is held closed until all its pockets have been filled, when the collator is opened by a cam-released linkage to allow all the eggs in the collator pockets to fall simultaneously into a receptacle resting on a spring impact-resisting platform.