Patent ID: 7734590
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06F,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A system that facilitates manufacturing within an industrial automation environment, comprising: a memory; an interface component that facilitates receipt of data associated with a controller related to the automation environment, wherein the data is at least one of an instruction set or a configuration; an append component that affixes metadata to the at least one of the instruction set or the configuration, wherein the metadata relates to a hierarchically structured data model associated with the controller and implements a common definition of data related to the industrial automation environment, wherein the hierarchically structured data model represents at least a physical hierarchical location within an industrial automation environment that includes at least one tag and at least one device, wherein the physical hierarchical location is indicative of at least a portion of a factory-level, a cell-level, a subcell level, an input within a subcell, or an output within a subcell; a validate component that utilizes a template and at least one of a discoverable service or a set of services to validate at least one of metadata, data, metadata affixed to data, or manipulations to metadata; a distribute component that facilitates distribution of the data to at least one of the system, a disparate system, a component within the system, or a component within the disparate system; and a bridge component that provides a first network protocol utilized to carry the data from the controller and configures the data for transmittal over a second network protocol.