TWI386821B - Engineering tool - Google Patents

Description

Engineering tools

The present invention relates to an engineering tool that is constructed as a monitoring control system and that performs printing of documents associated therewith.

The conventional automatic document function is described, for example, in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2004-5082 (pages 3 to 5, first drawing).

In the above-mentioned publication, the unified material format conversion unit converts the input target file to generate a unified form file, and creates a directory for the unified form file in the editing unit. In the case of the correction, the unified material format conversion unit specifies the original text corresponding to the correction, and activates an editor associated with the file descriptor. Then, the difference history management unit accumulates and manages the difference information.

Since the above-described publication is configured as described above, when a plurality of documents are processed as one document, the page number assignment and the directory preparation can be managed as one document, and a plurality of documents that have been manually performed in the past can be performed. Management becomes easy.

In the conventional system, although the management of a plurality of documents is facilitated, it is time-consuming to perform the conversion in the unified data format conversion unit one by one, which is not suitable for frequently performing data correction and printing. Monitoring the engineering of the control system.

In addition, it is necessary to develop software for conversion for each different material, and the development work time becomes enormous.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems as described above, and an object thereof is to obtain an engineering tool which can be associated with a monitoring control system without performing software conversion to uniform data without developing a software required for conversion. The files made by the plurality of editors are printed as a paperwork action.

The engineering tool of the present invention includes: a graphic editor for creating and printing a monitoring screen for monitoring a monitoring device of the factory; a program editor for creating and printing control logic for controlling a controller of the factory; a signal editor a list of signals for the production and printing factory; a print manager for managing the printing of each editor; and a print adapter that is incorporated into each editor to communicate with the print manager and communicated from the print management described above Printing requirements of the device; the printing adapter is to return the number of pages of the printed matter in response to the request from the printing manager; the printing manager has a unified printing portion for sequentially printing requirements for each of the editors, by The unified printing unit generates a list of the printed matter based on the number of pages of the printed matter returned from the print adapter.

According to the engineering tool of the present invention, the user uses the printing manager, and can be made by a plurality of editors associated with the monitoring control system without performing the software required for the transformation of the unified data without developing the transformation. The document is printed as a paperwork action.

The foregoing and other components, features, aspects and advantages of the present invention are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

(First embodiment)

Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described.

Fig. 1 is a view showing the overall configuration of a system including an engineering tool according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In the first diagram, the engineering tool 1 is composed of a program memory 101 for storing engineering functions, a CPU 100 for calling an engineering function and executing, and a RAM 102 for a temporary memory device for calculation; And the external memory device 103 stores the information generated by the engineering tool 1 semi-permanently. The monitoring screen created by the engineering tool 1 and stored in the external memory device 103 is transferred to the OPS (monitoring device) 2 via the general-purpose network 6, and used as a monitoring screen.

The OPS 2 is composed of a program memory 201 that stores a monitoring function, a CPU 200 that calls a monitoring function and executes it, an external memory device 203 that stores a monitoring screen, and the like, and a temporary memory device RAM 202 for calculation.

The CNS logic created by the engineering tool 1 and stored in the external memory device 103 is transferred to the CNS (controller) 4 via the general-purpose network 6 and the control network 3, and is used as the control logic of the controller. .

The CNS 4 is composed of a non-volatile memory 402 that stores CNS logic created by the engineering tool 1 , a program memory 401 that stores an arithmetic program, and a CPU 400 that reads and executes the program.

The factory machine 5 is connected to the CNS 4, and the program executed by the CPU 400 receives the output from the factory equipment and performs calculations, and outputs the result to the factory equipment 5, or transmits the signal to the OPS 2 and displays it on the monitor screen or the like.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In the second drawing, the engineering tool 1 is composed of a graphic editor 11 for creating and printing a monitoring screen of the OPS 2, a program editor 12 for creating and printing control logic of the CNS 4, and a signal editor 13 , a list of signals for the production and printing factory; and a print manager 14 for managing the printing of the entire engineering tool 1.

A print adapter 15 is incorporated in the graphics editor 11, a print adapter 16 is incorporated in the program editor 12, and a print adapter 17 is incorporated in the signal editor 13. Each of the print adapters has a function of communicating with the print manager and communicating to each editor, and has at least: an I/F (interface) for investigating the number of pages of the printed matter and returning it to the print manager 14; The printing of the manager 1 requires the functions of each editor to print.

Further, the pattern 21 is a printed matter printed by the graphic editor 11, and is exemplified in the third drawing; the program 22 is a printed matter printed by the program editor 12, and is exemplified in the fourth drawing; the signal list 23 is The printed matter such as the alarm list, the measurement device list, and the IO list printed by the signal editor 13 is exemplified in the fifth diagram.

The graphic print setting 18, the program print setting 19, and the signal print setting 20 are set in the graphic editor 11, the program editor 12, and the signal editor 13, respectively, to set the print width and font to be mounted. The print manager 14 has a separate print unit that communicates with a print adapter incorporated in each editor, calls the print settings of each editor, and prints the request, and corresponds to the graphic portion 141 of the graphic editor 11. The program portion 142 corresponding to the program editor 12 and the signal list portion 143 corresponding to the signal editor 13. Each individual printing department has a printing function and a setting function.

For example, when the setting function is executed for the graphic portion 141 of the individual printing portion for the graphic, the setting request is made in the printing adapter 15 incorporated in the graphic editor 11, and the graphic printing setting is started via the printing adapter 15. 18, and set the graphic printing. When the printing work of the graphic portion 141 is performed When it is possible, the printing adapter 15 performs a printing request, and the printing adapter 15 calls the printing function of the graphic editor 11 to perform graphic printing.

The unified printing unit 144 is a function of collectively printing the entire document by sequentially calling out the individual printing units. The unified printing unit 144 automatically generates the directory 24.

Fig. 3 is a view showing an example of a printed matter printed by a graphic editor according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 3, a pattern 21 such as an engineering system map is printed.

Fig. 4 is a view showing an example of a printed matter printed by the program editor according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 4, a diagram of the program 22 is printed.

Fig. 5 is a view showing an example of a printed matter printed by the signal editor of the first embodiment of the present invention.

In Fig. 5, a list 23 of signals such as a warning list, a list of measurement devices, and an IO list is printed. Fig. 5 shows an IO list 23 with warnings such as a label such as a pump operation command, a pump monitoring flag, and a pump flow alarm.

Fig. 6 is a flow chart showing the operation of the engineering tool according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Next, the operation will be described using FIG.

When printing is performed by the print manager 14, it is judged to be unified printing or individual printing (S1).

For individual printing, for the printing of the editors designated to be individually printed The connector performs printing requirements (S10). The print adapter that receives the print request calls the print function for the editor that it is incorporated in (S11). Upon receipt of the printing function of the called editor, the printing is executed and the file is output (S12). The print adapter responds to the print manager 14 by the end of printing (S13).

In the case of unified printing, the following processing is performed for the full editor. The print manager 14 inquires the print adapter about the number of pages (S3). The print adapter investigates the number of printed pages and returns it to the print manager 14 (S4). This page number is used when the directory is finally generated. The print manager 14 prints the print adapter (S5).

The print adapter calls the printing function for the editor that it is incorporated in (S6). The printing function of the editor performs printing to generate a file (S7). The print adapter returns the end of printing to the print manager 14 (S8). The print manager 14 reads the print adapter of the next editor at the end of printing, and performs the same processing in sequence (S9).

After the above steps are completed for the full editor, the directory is generated (S14), and the processing ends.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, with the print manager, the user can perform the connection to the monitoring control system without performing the conversion to the unified data and without the software required for the development of the conversion. A file made by a plurality of editors is printed as one document.

Further, since the files of the different editors can be collectively printed by the unified printing unit of the print manager, it is possible to greatly reduce the file generation time in which the edits are performed by the respective editors and the directories are manually generated and arranged.

In addition, developers only need to develop simple prints for each different editor. By brushing the adapter, a printed document can be created, and the integrated printing of different documents can be performed with a small amount of development cost.

In addition, the print adapter can be transmitted back to the I/F (interface) of the print manager and the print request from the print manager to print, as long as the number of survey pages is developed. Tools to reduce development hours.

(Second embodiment)

Hereinafter, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described based on Fig. 7.

Fig. 7 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 7, 1, 11 to 24, and 141 to 144 are the same as those in Fig. 2. In the seventh drawing, the print manager 14 is provided with a common setting unit 145, and the print settings of the respective editors are collectively performed, and are stored in the print common setting 25.

Even in the case of printing with different engineering tools, in most cases, it is desirable to use the headers, the creators, and the like in common. The common setting unit 145 of the print manager 14 has a function of setting the common materials, and the setting result is stored as the print common setting 25. The print adapters 15, 16, 17 incorporated in the respective editors overwrite the individual print settings 18, 19, 20 based on the print common setting 25. Settings that exist only for individual print settings will of course not be overwritten and will remain. Thereafter, printing is performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment, and each document is printed in a state where the printing common setting 25 is valid.

According to the second embodiment, the user does not need to set a common print setting for each editor, and the work time can be reduced, Can reduce setup errors.

(Third embodiment)

Hereinafter, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described based on Fig. 8 .

Fig. 8 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a third embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 8, 1, 11 to 25, and 141 to 145 are the same as those in Fig. 7. In Fig. 8, the graphic editor 11 has a graphic modification history 26, the program editor 12 has a program modification history 27, and the signal editor has a signal modification history 28. The print manager 14 compiles the modification history of each editor to create a modification history 29.

In the third embodiment, each editor has a modification history of a finished product created by itself. The graphic editor 11 has a graphic modification history 26, the program editor 12 has a program modification history 27, and the signal editor 13 has a signal modification history 28.

The revision history was created by using various engineering tools, and all of them were re-entered with commercially available tools such as WORD (registered trademark).

The unified printing unit 144 of the print manager 14 requests the respective modification history of the print adapters of the editors for unified printing, and each print adapter obtains the modification history from each editor and sends it back to the print manager. 14. The print manager creates a modified history 29 of the form after the correction of the history of the edit history of each of the returned editors.

According to the third embodiment, it is possible to save the trouble of creating the modification history of the file which is generated by each editor and finally manually reorganizing the file, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of the project.

(Fourth embodiment)

Hereinafter, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described based on Fig. 9.

Fig. 9 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 9, 1, 11 to 29, and 141 to 145 are the same as those in Fig. 8. In the ninth figure, the print manager 14 is provided with a page number setting unit 146, sets the number of pages of each file, and stores the setting result in the page number setting 30.

When the project data is changed and the file is regenerated, when there are additional pages, etc., the number of subsequent pages is often lost, and all the files must be reprinted. In the fourth embodiment, in consideration of the above, for example, the printed matter of the graphic editor 11 and the printed matter of the program editor 12 can be set to different page numbers. The graphic editor 11 is "1-1", "1-2", "1-3", etc., and the program editor 12 is "2-1", "2-2", "2-3". ...Wait.

The print manager 14 of the fourth embodiment has a page number setting unit 146 that sets the number of pages of each file and stores the setting result in the page number setting 30.

The unified printing unit 144 reads the page number setting 30 at the time of unified printing, and transmits the page number information to each printing adapter. Each print adapter performs printing by each editor based on the number of pages received.

According to the fourth embodiment, the number of pages of each file can be specified. Therefore, even if one of the files is to be changed and the number of pages is lost, it is not necessary to reprint all the subsequent files, and the change can be reduced. Engineering hours.

(Fifth Embodiment)

Hereinafter, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described based on Fig. 10.

Fig. 10 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 10, 1, 11 to 30, and 141 to 146 are the same as those in Fig. 9. In Fig. 10, a file made of a tool different from the engineering tool is printed as the supplementary material 31 by the unified printing unit 144 of the printing manager 14.

When the document is created, in addition to the printed engineering materials, there are many cases where it is necessary to add the supplementary material 31 made of a tool different from the engineering tool such as WORD or EXCEL (registered trademark). According to the fifth embodiment, in the above-described case, the file created separately from the engineering tool by the unified printing unit 144 of the print manager 14 can be printed in accordance with the page number setting 30 set by the number-of-pages setting unit 146. To supplement the information 31.

According to the fifth embodiment, it is possible to easily incorporate files created by tools other than engineering tools such as WORD or EXCEL into documents, thereby reducing engineering man-hours.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, but the scope of the embodiments is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. It is to be understood that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

1‧‧‧Engineering Tools

2‧‧‧OPS

3‧‧‧Control network

4‧‧‧CNS

5‧‧‧Factory machines

6‧‧‧Common Internet

11‧‧‧Graphic Editor

12‧‧‧Program Editor

13‧‧‧Signal Editor

14‧‧‧Print Manager

15‧‧‧Print adapter

16‧‧‧Print adapter

17‧‧‧Print adapter

18‧‧‧Graphic print settings

19‧‧‧Program printing settings

20‧‧‧Signal printing settings

21‧‧‧ graphics

22‧‧‧Program

23‧‧‧ IO list

24‧‧‧ directory

25‧‧‧Print common settings

26‧‧‧Graphic revision history

27‧‧‧Program modification history

28‧‧‧Signal modification history

29‧‧‧Modified resume

30‧‧‧Page setting

31‧‧‧ Supplementary information

100‧‧‧CPU

101‧‧‧Program memory

102‧‧‧RAM

103‧‧‧External memory device

141‧‧‧Graphic Department

142‧‧‧Program Department

143‧‧‧Signal List Department

144‧‧‧Unified Printing Department

145‧‧‧Common Settings Department

146‧‧‧Pages Setting Department

200‧‧‧CPU

201‧‧‧Program memory

202‧‧‧RAM

203‧‧‧External memory device

400‧‧‧CPU

401‧‧‧Program memory

402‧‧‧Non-volatile memory

Fig. 1 is a view showing the overall configuration of a system including an engineering tool according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a view showing a graphic editor printed in the first embodiment of the present invention. An example of a printed matter of a brush.

Fig. 4 is a view showing an example of a printed matter printed by the program editor according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a view showing an example of a printed matter printed by the signal editor of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a flow chart showing the operation of the engineering tool according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 9 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 10 is a view showing the configuration of an engineering tool according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

1‧‧‧Engineering Tools

11‧‧‧Graphic Editor

12‧‧‧Program Editor

13‧‧‧Signal Editor

14‧‧‧Print Manager

15‧‧‧Print adapter

16‧‧‧Print adapter

17‧‧‧Print adapter

18‧‧‧Graphic print settings

19‧‧‧Program printing settings

20‧‧‧Signal printing settings

21‧‧‧ graphics

22‧‧‧Program

23‧‧‧ IO list

24‧‧‧ directory

141‧‧‧Graphic Department

142‧‧‧Program Department

143‧‧‧Signal List Department

144‧‧‧Unified Printing Department

Claims (5)

An engineering tool comprising: a graphic editor (11) for creating and printing a monitoring screen for monitoring a monitoring device of a factory; a program editor (12) for creating and printing control logic for controlling a controller of the factory a signal editor (13) for creating and printing a list of signals of the aforementioned factory; a print manager (14) for managing the printing of each of the aforementioned editors; and a print adapter (15, 16, 17) for grouping Communicating with the print manager (14) in each editor and communicating the print request from the print manager (14); the print adapter (15, 16, 17) is from the print manager (14) The number of pages of the printed matter is returned; the print manager (14) has a unified printing unit (144) for sequentially printing the respective editors, and the unified printing unit (144) The catalog of the aforementioned printed matter is generated based on the number of sheets of the aforementioned printed matter returned from the aforementioned print adapter (15, 16, 17). The engineering tool according to claim 1, wherein the print manager (14) has a common setting unit (145) for performing common print setting for each of the editors; and each of the editors refers to each of the edits. The printing is performed by the printing setting (25) common to the device. For example, in the engineering tool of claim 1 or 2, wherein each of the editors has a modification history (26, 27, 28) of the respective composition, and the requirements from the print manager (14) are required. And send the aforementioned modification history. For example, in the engineering tools of claim 1 or 2, The print manager (14) has a page number setting unit (146) for setting the number of pages of the documents printed by the respective editors, and each of the editors performs the printing by referring to the number of pages. The engineering tool of claim 4, wherein the print manager (14) prints a file made by another tool different from the engineering tool according to the page number setting by the page number setting unit (146). .