PROGRAMMATICALLY SCHEDULED VERIFICATION

• US 20090037302A1
• Filed: 09/27/2006
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Schulz, Glenn B.
• Application Number:
  US11/535,554
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/04 Manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/30 Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates verifying an asset within an industrial environment based upon a programmatically defined state. A sensing component can determine a state of a process that corresponds to a programmatically defined state. A verification component can verify an asset associated with the process upon the sensing component that determines the state of the process.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates verification of one or more assets, comprising:

a sensing component that determines that a state of a process corresponds to a programmatically defined state; and

a verification component that verifies an asset associated with the process upon the sensing component determining the state of the process.

2. The system of claim 1, the asset is hierarchically represented based at least in part upon a physical location of the asset within the industrial environment.

3. The system of claim 2, the hierarchical representation of assets is based at least in part upon an industry standard which can be at least one of ISA, S95, ISA, and S88.

4. The system of claim 2, the hierarchical representation of assets is based at least in part upon a proprietary hierarchy that is provided by an enterprise.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising a data repository that retains a hierarchical representation of assets within the industrial environment.

6. The system of claim 2, the asset is at least one of a physical device, software, and a firmware.

7. The system of claim 6, the physical device is at least one of a programmable logic controller, a pump, a press, a valve, a drain, a heater, a cooler, a switch, a sensor, and a conveyor.

8. The system of claim 2, the process is associated with the hierarchical representation of assets.

9. The system of claim 8, the verification component verifies the hierarchical representation of assets based at least in part upon the sensing component determining the state of the process.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a trigger event that relates to at least one of a particular state of the process and a particular programmatically defined state, wherein the trigger event is pre-determined to initiate verification.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a detection component that ascertains at least one of when an asset has been added to the industrial environment, when an asset has been removed from the industrial environment, when an asset has been updated within the industrial environment.

12. The system of claim 11, the asset includes sufficient intelligence to initiate a message to the detection component, wherein such message can include at least one of a type of the asset, an identity of the asset, a location upon a network of the asset, and an associated asset.

13. The system of claim 11, the asset utilizes an identification data to detect and maintain alterations of an asset within the industrial environment.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising an updating component that updates the hierarchical representation of assets within the data repository based upon an alteration determined by the detection component.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a correcting component that repairs a deficiency ascertained by the verification component.

16. The system of claim 15, the correcting component provides at least one of the following:

an automatic repair to the deficiency and a manual repair to the deficiency.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rollback component that provides a rollback related to the process upon a deficiency detected during verification.

18. The system of claim 17, the rollback is one of a manual rollback, an automatic rollback, and a combination of a manual rollback and an automatic rollback.

19. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security component that ascertains authorization related to at least one of an asset to request and a functionality to implement via the graphical user interface component

20. The system of claim 1, further comprising an alert component that can provide an alert for at least one of the following:

a deficiency ascertained by the verification component;

a validation ascertained by the verification component; and

any combination of a deficiency and a validation ascertained by the verification component.

21. The system of claim 20, the alert is at least one of an indication of verification, an indication of the assets not being verified, an error associated therewith, a corruption of the assets, an error related to the process, audio alert, a visual alert, a process manipulation alert, a text alert, a digital signal alert, a communication to a user, and a communication to an entity.

22. The system of claim 1, further comprising a log component to track a result associated with at least one of the verification component and the sensing component.

23. The system of claim 22, the log component tracks at least one of a verified asset based upon the programmatically defined state, a process state that an asset was verified, a deficiency associated with the verification, and a valid result from verification.

24. A method that facilitates verification of one or more assets, comprising:

representing an asset within an industrial environment in a hierarchical manner;

ascertaining a state of a process that corresponds to a programmatically defined state utilized as a trigger event; and

initiating verification of the asset associated with the process based at least in part upon the trigger event.

25. The method of claim 24, the hierarchical manner is based at least in part upon a physical location of the asset within the industrial environment.

26. The method of claim 24, the hierarchical manner is based at least in part upon an industry standard which can be at least one of ISA, S95, ISA, and S88.

27. The method of claim 24, the hierarchical manner is based at least in part upon a proprietary hierarchy that is provided by an enterprise.

28. The method of claim 24, the asset is at least one of a physical device, software, and a firmware.

29. The method of claim 28, the physical device is at least one of a programmable logic controller, a pump, a press, a valve, a drain, a heater, a cooler, a switch, a sensor, and a conveyor.

30. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

providing a rollback technique based at least in part upon detection of an error;

initiating an alert based at least in part upon the verification; and

correcting the error detected by the verification.

31. A computer-implemented system that facilitates verification of one or more assets, comprising:

means for determining a state of a process corresponds to a programmatically defined state; and

means for verifying an asset associated with the process upon the determination of the state of the process.