COLLABORATION TOOLS

Organization Name

Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Andrew R. Stump of Mentor OH US

Anthony Carrara of Strongsville OH US

Eashwer Srinivasan of Fremont CA US

Christopher W. Como of Chagrin Falls OH US

Sharon M. Billi-duran of Euclid OH US

COLLABORATION TOOLS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 19009791 titled 'COLLABORATION TOOLS

Original Abstract Submitted

An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. These collaborative features can include, for example, brokering between different sets of design input directed to the same portion of the system project, generating notifications to remote designers when a portion of the system project is modified, sharing of development interfaces or environments, facilitating involvement of outside technical support experts to assist with design issues, and other collaborative features.