System and methodology facilitating remote and automated maintenance procedures in an industrial controller environment
First Claim
1. An industrial control system, comprising:
- an industrial controller that communicates with a network;
an event component associated with the industrial controller to detect at least one maintenance event;
at least one schema to interface with the industrial controller in accordance with the maintenance event; and
an action component that maps the maintenance event to an action to facilitate remote maintenance of the industrial control system over the network, the action provides temporal data that describes a sequence of occurrences leading up to the maintenance event.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating remote maintenance in an industrial control environment. An industrial control system is provided that includes an industrial controller to communicate with a network. Explicit and/or implied maintenance events are determined, wherein one or more automated actions are configured or adapted to interact with remote users over the network in response to the events. This can include configuring and communicating human-readable schemas describing the events in support of remote maintenance procedures. The schemas can include embedded documentation to further aid diagnosis and correction of potential problems. Other aspects can include automated actions such as automatically generating component orders and providing remote firmware and/or documentation upgrades.
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40 Claims
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1. An industrial control system, comprising:
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an industrial controller that communicates with a network; an event component associated with the industrial controller to detect at least one maintenance event; at least one schema to interface with the industrial controller in accordance with the maintenance event; and an action component that maps the maintenance event to an action to facilitate remote maintenance of the industrial control system over the network, the action provides temporal data that describes a sequence of occurrences leading up to the maintenance event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A method to facilitate remote maintenance in an industrial controller, comprising:
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defining a plurality of maintenance events in an industrial control system; mapping the maintenance events to automated maintenance actions; configuring an XML schema in accordance with the maintenance actions, the schema describes a series of incidents immediately prior to the maintenance events; and transmitting the XML schema to remote locations to facilitate maintenance of the industrial control system. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A system to facilitate remote maintenance in an industrial controller, comprising:
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means for configuring at least one maintenance event in an industrial control system; means for mapping the maintenance event to at least one automated maintenance action; means for configuring a schema in accordance with the maintenance actions, the schema describes a sequence of occurrences that caused the maintenance event; and means for transmitting the schema to remote locations to facilitate maintenance of the industrial control system.
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40. An industrial control system, comprising:
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an industrial controller that communicates with a network, the industrial controller adapted with at least one of a web server, phone server, and a wireless access server interface; an event component associated with the industrial controller to detect at least one maintenance event, the maintenance event including at least one of a direct and an implied event; at least one schema to interface with the industrial controller and at least one remote system in accordance with the maintenance event, the schema describes a sequence of occurrences prior to the maintenance event; and an action component that maps the maintenance event to a maintenance action to facilitate remote maintenance between the industrial controller and the at least one remote system.
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