APPLICATION BUILDER FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

• US 20100082133A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Canada Ltd. (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ICS Triplex ISaGRAF Inc. (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Inventors: Brunet, Gilles, Laliberte, Jean-Francois, Larouche, Olivier, Darveau, Frederic, Chouinard, Julien, Trang, Chan-Dara, Lavallee, Denis
• Application Number:
  US12/242,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082133A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/86
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design

Abstract

A control system development platform is provided. The platform includes a shell component adapted to support development of a control systems application. An abstract model is associated with the shell component to facilitate development of the control systems applications.

Claims

1. A control system development platform, comprising:

a shell component adapted with an abstract model to support development of a control systems application; and

a core component adapted to the shell component, the core component controls rights, security, or events processed by the control systems application.

2. The system of claim 1, the rights are employed to control access of plug-ins to an industrial application or to application data.

3. The system of claim 1, the rights control a set of features that are exposed to one or more other components, plug-ins, or functions of a control system.

4. The system of claim 1, the rights control access between plug-ins.

5. The system of claim 1, a namespace that is associated with a license manager, a roles manager, or a feature matrix.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising an event logger that captures statements that are optionally linked with deployed code.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a log filter that is configured to avoid logging events.

8. The system of claim 6, further comprising a framework component to write events to multiple outputs.

9. The system of claim 8, the outputs include a database, a remote sink, a web service, a text file, or a target type.

10. The system of claim 8, the framework component includes a hierarchical logging set, where each component of the set includes its own logging component to capture events from members of a hierarchy.

11. The system of claim 8, the framework is configured programmatically.

12. The system of claim 1, the security is associated with one or more role mappings.

13. The system of claim 12, the role mappings are dynamic and based on business rules, process context, or user role.

14. The system of claim 1, the security is based on thread principles to support rich-client authorizations.

15. The system of claim 1, the security includes a logging component to record access attempts, policy violations, undefined user role memberships, or exceptions.

16. A control system development method, comprising:

adapting a shell with at least one abstract model to support development of a control systems application; and

providing a core that controls component rights, security access, or logging events processed by the control systems application.

17. The method of claim 16, the abstract automation model is associated with abstract automation model or a concrete automation model.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising filtering the logging events to prevent unwanted events from being recorded.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising automatically auditing components to determine whether security violations have occurred.

20. A control system development method, comprising:

means for interfacing to at least one abstract model to support development of a control systems application; and

means for controlling plug-in access to the control systems application.