Patent ID: 8365145

Claim:
A method that facilitates generation of add-on instructions for employment within an industrial device, comprising: employing a processor executing computer executable instructions embodied on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium to perform operations comprising: tracking dependencies between a plurality of add-on instructions in a first project; and in response to receiving user interface input specifying copying of an add-on instruction from the first project to a second project: determining if the second project includes one or more add-on instruction that match another add-on instruction that has a dependency to the copied add-on instruction; in response to determining that there is a single add-on instruction in the second project that matches the other add-on instruction in the first project that has a dependency to the copied add-on instruction, copying from the first project to the second project the other add-on instruction that has a dependency to the copied add-on instruction, and in response to determining that there is a conflict where multiple add-on instructions in the second project match the other add-on instruction in the first project that has a dependency to the copied add-on instruction, employing mitigation handling that accepts user input to update the revision of the add-on instruction in the first project or update the revision of at least one of the multiple add-on instructions in the second project.