Patent ID: 8856522

Claim:
A system that implements safety within an industrial environment, comprising: a processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to implement the system, comprising: a separation component configured to perform an evaluation of industrial data relating to a set of processes of an industrial environment, and identify a first subset of the processes relating to control and a second subset of the processes relating to safety based on a result of the evaluation; an enhancing component configured to create, based on the result of the evaluation, a first controller engine instance having a first security level for control of the first subset of processes and a second controller engine instance having a second security level for control of the second subset of processes; and a redundancy component configured to generate one or more backup controller engine instances for at least one of the first controller engine instance or the second controller engine instance, wherein the redundancy component determines a number of the one or more backup controller engine instances based on ratio data maintained in a data store specifying a ratio of backup controller engine instances to primary controller engine instances.