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Computer-based industrial automation and information system; computer software and hardware for connection with industrial instrumentation including valves, pumps, motors, flow measurement devices, pressure measurement devices, level measurement devices, temperature measurement devices, chemical composition measurement devices, equipment condition monitoring devices; computer hardware and software for industrial process control and logic control, computer hardware and software for industrial operator consoles, maintenance consoles, engineering workstations, supervision consoles and management interfacing; computer-based hardware and software for industrial information management including process historian, industrial alarm management, industrial modeling and simulation; computer-based software for advance operations and maintenance supervision including advanced process control, multivariable predictive control, statistical control, linear optimization and nonlinear optimization, predictive maintenance, and plant asset management; computer software for the interoperation with third party intelligent plant devices existing in the industrial plant including DDE device drivers and data acquisition servers; computer-based software for the interoperation with third party enterprise business software including enterprise messaging services, web services, and file transfer mechanisms