Patent ID: 7085623

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a. machinery for performing an industrial process having process parameters; b. a controller operative with a provided wireless device, the wireless device comprising a processor, a memory, a user interface, and a transceiver, the controller responsive to a set of commands, the controller performing a first method including: receiving a request in accordance with a user selection; sending instructions to be stored in the memory for performance by the processor, the instructions for performing a second method limited to a subset of the commands, the second method including: (1) obtaining via the user interface indicia of a command of the subset; and (2) communicating via the transceiver in accordance with the indicia of the command; receiving data in response to communicating by the transceiver; and controlling the machinery in accordance with the received data; c. wherein the controller comprises at least two subcontrollers, each subcontroller comprising one of a master control station, a process controller, a temperature controller, and a robot controller; and the commands comprising the subset are unique to at least one of the subcontrollers.