Patent Document ID: 8285744
Application ID: 11240701

Base Claim:
1. A system that facilitates searching manufacturing process information, comprising: a memory that stores computer-executable components; a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable components, the computer-executable components including: a plurality of indexing agents, specific to a plurality of disparate types of manufacturing information, that are configured to access the plurality of disparate types of manufacturing information from a manufacturing process within an industrial automation system and configured to create searchable sub-indices for the plurality of disparate types of manufacturing information, wherein a number of the plurality of indexing agents employed is at least one of expanded or reduced based in part on a change in a number of the plurality of disparate types of manufacturing information; and a manufacturing process search engine configured to employ the at least a portion of the searchable sub-indices to facilitate in responding to a manufacturing process information search query, wherein the manufacturing process search engine includes at least one data broker configured to access at least one of real-time data from an industrial automation device or historical data associated with a data storage.

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Claim 12:
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data brokers utilize at least one of the plurality of indexing agents to facilitate searching process configuration data.