Patent ID: 7873430

Claim:
A system embodied on a computer readable storage medium that facilitates automatically scheduling an operation in an industrial environment, comprising: an interface component configured to receive a schedule defining at least one operation to be performed on a device within the industrial environment; a distribute component configured to divide the at least one operation among one or more disparate agent components; a scheduler component configured to instruct at least one agent hosted by the one or more disparate agent components to perform the at least one operation on the device at a time indicated by the schedule; a bridge component configured to facilitate communication between the scheduler component and the at least one agent, and between the at least one agent and a disparate agent to facilitate distributing performance of the at least one operation between the at least one agent and the disparate agent; and a detection component configured to ascertain at least one of when a device has been added to the industrial environment, when a device has been removed from the industrial environment, when a device has been updated within the industrial environment, a schedule, or an alteration to a schedule respective to a device, wherein the detection component is configured to poll the industrial environment for a new device that includes a new schedule defining at least one operation to be performed on the new device, and to store the new schedule for retrieval and implementation by the scheduler component.