Software for system integrity, alarm optimization, and control performance for the process industries; software for automating industrial control system asset inventory, configuration change detection, workflow management, and regulatory requirement compliance; software for aggregating, organizing, and presenting visualization of complex automation configurations, asset inventory management, management of change, configuration management, defect detection, integrated workflow process management, project Integrity and database reconciliation; software for data visualization, aggregating and contextualizing configuration databases, programs and user interfaces and simplifying the visualization and the management of information for an automated system in an industrial facility; software for managing the operating environment on process control LANs, monitoring changes and configuration consistency in hardware, firmware, and software, and analysis of software inventory; software for inventorying control system assets having customizable metadata fields that can be used to group assets; software for alarm optimization, high performance human machine interfaces, control loop performance, and boundary management; software for generating predefined graphics and object libraries for use in control systems in industrial applications to improve plant safety and reliability; all the aforementioned excluding software for directly controlling automated or partially automated machines or installations