Patent ID: 7650405
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G05B,H04L,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A system that facilitates tracking and tracing products in an industrial environment comprising: a processor configured to support the operation of coputer-executable compnents stored on a computer-readable storage medium, the computer-executable components including: a reception component that receives data indicative of location of entities within an industrial environment, the data converted to a standardized form consistent with a hierarchically structured data model which integrates equipment hierarchy with procedure hierarchies such that data objects corresponding to the received data are associates with metadata inidicating types of process associates therewtih; a monitoring componnt that outputs tracking and tracing parameters of the entities across process boundaries, wherein tracking parameters include real-time reckoning of a location for the entities and tracing parametners include retrospective reckoning of occurance of events for the entities; and a view generation component that provides a view indicating current tracking and tracing parameters.