公开(公告)号：US20250103027A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18474899

申请日：2023-09-26

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Nathaniel S. Sandler ,  David C. Mazur ,  Jonathan A. Mills ,  Michael J. Anthony ,  Todd A. Wiese ,  Michael A. Spaner

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: In a container orchestration environment implemented in an industrial automation environment, a new industrial automation component (e.g., device or software) attaches to an industrial automation network, and a pod of the container orchestration environment detects the attachment. In response, the pod creates a new pod representing the new industrial automation component by determining a type of the new industrial automation component, identifying functionality specific to the industrial automation component based on the type, provisioning software to implement the functionality, and generating a pod with containers for the software. The pod couples interfaces in the software to interfaces of the new industrial automation component and exposes the pod in the container orchestration environment, allowing the industrial automation component to participate in the container orchestration system.