Eric L Grove, 481570 Trinity Rd, Cross Roads, PA 17322

7840293, Nov 23, 2010

Apr 25, 2006

11/412063

Steven M. Weinrich - York PA, US
James C. Long - York PA, US
Eric P. Grove - Dallastown PA, US
Don R. Tunnell - Perkiomenville PA, US
George E. Bachman - Falston MA, US

Invensys Systems, Inc. - Foxboro MA

G06F 19/00

700 95, 700 32, 700108, 700109, 700110, 702 83, 702 84

A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e. g. , a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service. Furthermore, the system supports including extensions to a base production message schema through the inclusion of metadata that designates a particular production server to parse and apply/store the extension information.

7895315, Feb 22, 2011

Apr 25, 2006

11/411439

Steven M. Weinrich - York PA, US
James C. Long - York PA, US
Eric P. Grove - Dallastown PA, US
Don R. Tunnell - Perkiomenville PA, US
George E. Bachman - Fallston MA, US

Invensys Systems, Inc. - Foxboro MA

G06F 15/173

709224, 709223, 714 39, 370252

A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e. g. , a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event-messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service. Furthermore, the system supports including extensions to a base production message schema through the inclusion of metadata that designates a particular production server to parse and apply/store the extension information.

8117300, Feb 14, 2012

Apr 25, 2006

11/411438

Steven M. Weinrich - York PA, US
James C. Long - York PA, US
Eric P. Grove - Dallastown PA, US
Don R. Tunnell - Perkiomenville PA, US
George E. Bachman - Fallston MA, US

Invensys Systems, Inc - Foxboro MA

G06F 15/173

709224, 709223, 714 39, 370252

A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e. g. , a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service. Furthermore, the system supports including extensions to a base production message schema through the inclusion of metadata that designates a particular production server to parse and apply/store the extension information.

8239055, Aug 7, 2012

May 4, 2009

12/435380

Eric Paul Grove - Dallastown PA, US
Steven M. Weinrich - York PA, US
Christopher Justin Miller - York PA, US

Invensys Systems, Inc. - Foxboro MA

G06F 19/00
G06F 7/00
G06F 9/44
G05B 9/02

700108, 700 80, 700 95, 700104, 717105, 717109, 717113, 707755

A system is disclosed that simplifies configuring an MES entity corresponding to a SCADA system object representing plant equipment. The system includes an equipment model builder (EMB) that receives a set of configured UCO information for a modeled piece of plant equipment in a SCADA system. The EMB extracts relevant MES information from the utilization capability object and invokes an application interface on an MES database to create a corresponding entity (e. g. , a database element). Another aspect of the disclosed system and methods involves the enhancement of a SCADA system object, through a new MES facet, to support acquiring and reporting equipment status received via the SCADA system to a corresponding MES entity. A raw reason code configuration interface is provided by UCO configurator computer software executed on a computer. Each raw reason code is associated with a prioritized logical expression defining circumstances under which the reason code becomes true.

2003022, Dec 4, 2003

Apr 15, 2003

10/414249

Robert DeRemer - York PA, US
Eric Grove - Dallastown PA, US
Lorin Grubb - York PA, US
Robert Hallquist - New Holland PA, US
Paul LeMert - York PA, US
Edward Mundorf - York PA, US
Steven Weinrich - York PA, US
Julia Wright - York PA, US

G06F019/00

700/096000

The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for workflow editing. Such methods and apparatus permit, for example, user-defined and/or other tasks to be combined in any combination or combinations to specify a workflow. The tasks can be linked for direct, serial processing and/or for conditional processing that includes branching and/or looping. The invention also improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with extensible actions. The invention provides, further, improved methods and apparatus for workflow definition and processing which utilize workflow variables for communication of data and control information among tasks within a workflow. The invention provides, still further, improved methods and apparatus of workflow definition and processing with enhanced messaging. The invention provides, still yet further, improved methods and apparatus for workflow definition and processing which permit definition of hierarchically enumerated data types and for for definition of “plans” to collect, e.g., for storage, data such as the aforementioned hierarchical data types.

2013012, May 16, 2013

May 2, 2012

13/462125

Eric Paul Grove - Dallastown PA, US
Steven M. Weinrich - York PA, US
Christopher Justin Miller - York PA, US

INVENSYS SYSTEMS INC. - Foxboro MA

G06F 17/30

707609

A system is disclosed that simplifies configuring an MES entity corresponding to a SCADA system object representing plant equipment. The system includes an equipment model builder (EMB) that receives a set of configured UCO information for a modeled piece of plant equipment in a SCADA system. The EMB extracts relevant MES information from the utilization capability object and invokes an application interface on an MES database to create a corresponding entity (e.g., a database element). Another aspect of the disclosed system and methods involves the enhancement of a SCADA system object, through a new MES facet, to support acquiring and reporting equipment status received via the SCADA system to a corresponding MES entity. A raw reason code configuration interface is provided by UCO configurator computer software executed on a computer. Each raw reason code is associated with a prioritized logical expression defining circumstances under which the reason code becomes true.