System and methodology providing network data exchange between industrial control components
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1. An industrial control system, comprising:
- a data exchange module operative in a local network environment and a remote network environment;
a first mapping component associated with the data exchange module to facilitate communications with devices associated with a controller in the local network environment in accordance with a first protocol;
a second mapping component associated with the data exchange module to facilitate communications between devices associated with the controller in the local network environment and the devices associated with the controller in remote network environment in accordance with at least one of the first protocol and a second protocol such that communication with the controller is mitigated; and
an offline file employed by the first and second mapping components to automatically reconfigure a replacement data exchange module, the offline file describes at least one of operating parameters and mapping configurations associated with the data exchange module.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating network communications between network components operative between a local network and a higher-level, remote, and/or information network in an industrial controller environment. The system includes a data exchange module that maps one or more remote network protocols to one or more local network protocols. The data exchange module can include one or more mapping components that map a plurality of control protocols communicated over an information network to a local protocol that can be subsequently employed to communicate data to a plurality of local network devices in the industrial controller environment.
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1. An industrial control system, comprising:
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a data exchange module operative in a local network environment and a remote network environment; a first mapping component associated with the data exchange module to facilitate communications with devices associated with a controller in the local network environment in accordance with a first protocol; a second mapping component associated with the data exchange module to facilitate communications between devices associated with the controller in the local network environment and the devices associated with the controller in remote network environment in accordance with at least one of the first protocol and a second protocol such that communication with the controller is mitigated; and an offline file employed by the first and second mapping components to automatically reconfigure a replacement data exchange module, the offline file describes at least one of operating parameters and mapping configurations associated with the data exchange module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method to facilitate data exchange in an industrial controller network, comprising:
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mapping at least one of topics and items between a communications module and a local device associated with a controller; mapping at least one remote network device associated with the controller to the communications module; establishing a data exchange between the remote network device and the local device according to the mappings without employing the controller as an intermediary for the data exchange; and employing an offline file that stores at least one of operating parameters and mapping configurations, to automatically configure a replacement communications module. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system to facilitate data exchange in an industrial controller network, comprising:
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means for mapping data between a communications module and a local device associated with a controller; means for mapping data between the communications module and a remote device associated with the controller; means for communicating between the communications module and the remote device; means for establishing a data exchange between the remote network device and the local device in accordance with the mappings such that communication with the controller is mitigated; and means for storing at least one of operating parameters and mapping configurations associated with the communications module in an offline file employed to automatically reconfigure a replacement communication module.
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25. An industrial control system, comprising:
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a data exchange module operative in a local chassis, the data exchange module includes a remote network interface to communicate with at least one remote network; a first mapping component associated with the data exchange module to facilitate communications with the local chassis in accordance with a first network protocol, the local chassis including at least one of an industrial controller, a communications module, and an Input/Output (I/O) module, the communications module communicating to at least one local network; a second mapping component associated with the data exchange module to facilitate communications between at least one of the local chassis, the local network and the remote network in accordance with at least one of the first network protocol and a second network protocol mappings, the data exchange module facilitates communications without employing the industrial controller as an intermediary for the data exchange; and an offline file associated with the data exchange module employed by the first and second mapping components that describes at least one of operating parameters and mapping configurations to automatically reconfigure a replacement data exchange module.
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