Patent ID: 11880676
Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a plurality of devices configured to perform a plurality of operations within an industrial automation system, wherein each of the plurality of devices comprises a compute surface configured to execute a respective container of a plurality of containers of a container orchestration system; and
a processor configured to:
receive a request to update firmware of a first container of the plurality of containers, wherein the first container is associated with performing operations of one device of the plurality of devices;
identify a second container of the plurality of containers performing digital twin operations of the first container;
retrieve a plurality of machine state datasets associated with a plurality of computing nodes of the container orchestration system;
identify a computing node of the plurality of computing nodes to host an update container comprising an updated version of the firmware of the first container based on the plurality of machine state datasets;
cause deployment of an update container to the computing node, wherein the update container is configured to replace the digital twin operations performed by the second container; and
transfer the operations of the one device from the first container to the update container based on output data associated with the update container corresponding to expected output data.