Patent ID: 11934178
Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry of a cloud computing system, cause the processing circuitry to perform actions comprising:
modeling or simulating, in accordance with a model, a plurality of devices performing one or more operations in an industrial automation system;
determining, for a first operation of the one or more operations and from a plurality of categories, that a category for the first operation comprises a cyclic operations category;
sending a request to the industrial automation system for data associated with the first operation at a time, wherein the data and time are determined based on the category of the first operation, and wherein the time occurs between cycles of the first operation;
receiving, from the industrial automation system, the requested data; and
modifying the model based on the received data.