EAUTOMATION

Computer hardware and computer software for automatically collecting data from input devices, namely, sensors, readers, and transducers, and for automatically controlling output devices, namely, motors, solenoids, actuators, displays, and annunciators, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for automatically collecting input data and providing output commands to remote stations, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for use as a server over a global computer network, namely, an integrated web server or an embedded server, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for use in communications, namely, for business-to-device connectivity, XML data format communications, remote management and updating of remote stations, access over a network for acquiring real-time data, alarms, trends, reports, and recipes, for generating graphics displays used with point and click procedures, and providing a simulation mode for ease of development, access over a global computer network for acquiring real-time data, alarms, trends, reports, and recipes, for generating graphics displays used with point and click procedures, and providing a simulation mode for ease of development, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for communicating over a network to virtually any manufacturer's programmable logic controller, and sending that information to any location on the network without needing to change the configuration of the programmable logic controller, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for communicating over a network to virtually any manufacturer's input/output station, and sending that information to any location on the network without needing to change the configuration of the input/output station, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for communicating over a global computer network to virtually any manufacturer's programmable logic controller, and sending that information to any location on the network without needing to change the configuration of the programmable logic controller, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for communicating over a global computer network to virtually any manufacturer's input/output station, and sending that information to any location on the network without needing to change the configuration of the input/output station, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for checking production data on critical processes, industrial machines, or orders in real-time, without waiting on batch reports, and for collecting data from many distributed industrial machines or processes in real-time, analyzing the data, and sending new optimized parameters back to the distributed industrial machines or processes, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for use in diagnostics of remote machines, for use in monitoring utilities, for use in monitoring server rooms, for use in monitoring vendor-managed inventory, for use in providing remote administration, and for use in monitoring telecommunications equipment, used in data acquisition and control systems in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for linking a data acquisition and control system to an operator interface, namely, a display screen or a display monitor, for use in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for linking a data acquisition and control system to a server, for use in industrial environments; computer hardware and computer software for linking a data acquisition and control system to one or more input/output devices, namely sensors, readers, and transducers, motors, solenoids, actuators, displays, and annunciators, integrated web servers, embedded servers, network servers, programmable logic controllers, display screens, display monitors, for use in industrial environments