1. A system that provides data to an industrial control system, comprising: a packaging component associated with an industrial control device that receives data from a source and encapsulates the data to package properties and methods relating to the data as one or more data objects, wherein object oriented access to the data is facilitated by utilizing a common data object format; and a data consuming device located in an industrial control network that employs an interface to access a selected data object from one of the encapsulated data objects.