14. A method for facilitating searching manufacturing process information, comprising: mapping at least one first indexing agent to a first type of information accessed from a manufacturing process within an industrial automation system; mapping at least one second indexing agent to a second type of information accessed from the manufacturing process; creating one or more type-specific indices by employing the at least one first indexing agent and the at least one second indexing agent; changing a number of indexing agents employed in the industrial automation system in response to a change in a number of types of information accessed from the manufacturing process; and employing at least one of the one or more type-specific indices, real-time data accessed from an industrial automation device via a first data broker, or historical data accessed from a data storage via a second data broker to facilitate responding to a manufacturing process information search query.
14. A method for facilitating searching manufacturing process information, comprising: mapping at least one first indexing agent to a first type of information accessed from a manufacturing process within an industrial automation system; mapping at least one second indexing agent to a second type of information accessed from the manufacturing process; creating one or more type-specific indices by employing the at least one first indexing agent and the at least one second indexing agent; changing a number of indexing agents employed in the industrial automation system in response to a change in a number of types of information accessed from the manufacturing process; and employing at least one of the one or more type-specific indices, real-time data accessed from an industrial automation device via a first data broker, or historical data accessed from a data storage via a second data broker to facilitate responding to a manufacturing process information search query. 17. The method of claim 14 , wherein the responding includes responding to a natural language search query relating to manufacturing process information.