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A development tool for use in specifying at least a sub-set of information required to generate control tools for an industrial process wherien the process is performed by mechanical resources, the control tools include execution logic, simulation facilitating tools, diagnostic tools, HMI tools and

A development tool for use in specifying at least a sub-set of information required to generate control tools for an industrial process wherien the process is performed by mechanical resources, the control tools include execution logic, simulation facilitating tools, diagnostic tools, HMI tools and schematic diagrams, the development tool including a plurality of control assembles (CA), a separate CA for each mechanical resource type, which can be instantiated by selection and parameterization via an editor to specify the required information, after instantiation, the CAs compiled to generate the tools.

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[ We claim:] [1.]1. A development tool for use with a processor which runs execution code for controlling control mechanism sets which in turn control resources which perform an industrial process, the processor controlling by providing resource requests, the development tool for specifying characte

[ We claim:] [1.]1. A development tool for use with a processor which runs execution code for controlling control mechanism sets which in turn control resources which perform an industrial process, the processor controlling by providing resource requests, the development tool for specifying characteristics of at least a subset of control tools for the industrial process, control tools including execution, simulation, diagnostic and human-machine interface (HMI) logic and also including schematics, the development tool comprising:for each mechanism set:a control assembly (CA) encapsulating at least:a first control specification corresponding to one of the control tools in the sub-set; anda second control specification corresponding to another of the control tools in the sub-set wherein, each of an execution logic, a simulation, a diagnostic, an HMI and a schematic specification are control specifications;whereby CA instances can be instantiated such that the combined instantiated CAs specify characteristics of the control tools in the sub-set for the industrial process.