RESOURCE CLASS BINDING FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

• US 20100083270A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kline, Robert, Case, Clark L.
• Application Number:
  US12/241,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20100083270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4187 by tool management
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32258 Resource, machine assignment preferences, actual and anticipated load
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32328 Dynamic scheduling, resource allocation, multi agent negotiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

An industrial control system is provided. The system includes a processing component to bind to a subset of resources from a set of potential industrial control resources. An attribute component defines a resource priority for the set of potential industrial control resources. A resource class component implements at least one instance of the potential industrial control resources, where the instance automatically selects the subset of resources in view of the resource priority.

Claims

1. An industrial control system, comprising:

a processing component to bind to a subset of resources from a set of potential industrial control resources;

an attribute component to define a resource priority for the set of potential industrial control resources; and

a resource class component to implement at least one instance of the potential industrial control resources, the instance automatically selects the subset of resources in view of the resource priority.

2. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is configurable by a system or a user.

3. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with a routing capability that defines path for a material to travel or an economic indicator that defines a monetary quality of a resource.

4. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with a performance quality that defines an electrical or mechanical performance criteria of a resource.

5. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with cycling parameter that defines how often a resource is to be utilized.

6. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with a maintenance parameter that prioritizes resources based upon a maintenance cycle.

7. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with an arbitration parameter for resources that have been previously prioritized.

8. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with a last used parameter that defines a quality of material that was last used by a resource.

9. The system of claim 1, the attribute component is associated with a multiple function parameter that defines the number of functions available for a specified resource.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface to define or modify the attribute component or the resource class component.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one unit that is operated on by the subset of resources.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one of an equipment module, a material module, a personnel module, a segment module, or a storage module.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one of a binding preferences component or a binding requirements component.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising at least one of a tag class, a resource attribute, a unit attribute, or an equipment phase attribute.

15. The system of claim 13, the binding preferences component or the binding requirements component include expressions, inclusions, or exclusion parameters.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising custom attributes, static attributes, or dynamic attributes.

17. A method of controlling resources in an industrial control process, comprising:

specifying resource classes for a batch process;

monitoring binding attributes associated with the batch process;

generating class instances in view of the binding attributes; and

selecting a subset of resources in the batch process via the class instances.

18. The method of claim 17, the binding attributes further comprising economic attributes, routing attributes, performance attributes, cycling attributes, maintenance attributes, arbitration attributes, last used attributes, or multiple function attributes.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising defining one or more binding requirements or binding preferences in view of the binding attributes.

20. An industrial control system for batch processing, comprising:

means for defining one or more resource classes for a batch process;

means for generating class instances from the resource classes in view of one or more detected binding attributes; and

means for selecting equipment in the batch process in view of the binding attributes.