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Abstract
The present application relates to a system (10) for distributing and exchanging elements for planning and/or operating automation operating equipment, comprising at least one interface device (12), at least one processing device (14) and at least one data store (16), wherein the interface device (12) effects an integrated connection to at least one engineering tool (18, 20) and/or an integrated link to at least one engineering tool (18, 20) such that functionalities of the at least one interface device (12) and of the at least one processing device (14) can be retrieved from the respective engineering tool (18, 20) and carried out. By means of the respective processing device (14), in cooperation with the respective interface device (12) and the respective engineering tool (18, 20), elements (22a, b) created and/or marked by a first engineering tool (18) can be transferred to the respective processing device (14) and processed and/or can be made available on the at least one data store (16) to be retrieved and/or to be transferred to and/or implemented in at least one further second engineering tool (20). The invention further relates to a corresponding method to be carried out by means of the aforementioned system (10).
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System and method for distributing and exchanging elements for planning and/or for operating automation operating equipment
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The invention relates to a system and a method for distributing and interchanging elements for the planni ng and/or operation of automation-enaineering resources, particularly control logic elei[Lerits for the engineering of automation-engineering resources.
Creation and implementation of control logic units or of control logic elements is comparatively elaborate and difficult on account of the generally ever more complex tasks and increasing demands, including the requisite tests for operation, suitability, safety and reliability. It would therefore he desirable for such elements to be interchanged and reused and/or used more than once.
Known methods and systems have afforded only limit ed and inadequate options in this regard to date, however.
Thus, essentially two areas for the reuse of code elements are currently known. One is a method for producing and distributing libraries, and the other is "personal reuse" or individual, person-related reuse of solutions which have already been produced once, for example by!!copy and pastet1.
The creation and maintenance or care of libraries is generally very elaborate arid subject to comparatively high costs. The setup and acLivation thereof in the respective *organzation or organization structure is often comparatively complex.
In the area of automation-engineering installations, the personal reuse of elements, parti. cularly of logic elements, and hence also the "copy and paste" approach, can be used primarily when there are separate options for accessing such elements, that is to say essentially when the respective engineer has elements available from his own, earlier approaches to solutions and/or his own earlier projects for which it is known how they act and what they trigger.
Systematized and organized access to, in particular, validated control logic elements for the planning and operation of automation-engineering resources has not boon adequately possible with known systems and methods to date, however.
As a result, the invention is based on the object of specifying an option for efficient and systematic interchange of, in particular, control logic fragments and clements for the planning and operation of automation-engineering resources.
This object is achieved by a system for distributing and interchanging ciements for the planning and/or operation of autonaLion-engineering resources having the features of claim 1.
Advantageous refinements and developments of the aforementioned system and an appropriate method also for performance on this system are specified in furthor
claims and in the description below.
According to the invention, the system for distributing and interchanging elements for the planning and/or operation of automation-engineering resources comprises at least one interface device, at least one processing device and at least one data memory, wherein the interface dcvi cc prompts an integrative connection to at least one engineering tool and/or an integrative link to at least one engineering tool, such that functionalities of the at least one interface device and also of the at least one processing device can be called from the respective engineering tool and executed, and wherein the processing device in collaboration with the interface device and the respective engineering tool can be used bo transfer elements that have been created j.:on a firaL engineering tool and/or marked to the respocLive processing device and to process said elements and/or to make available said elements on the at least one data memory for the purpose of retrieval and/cr for Lransfer and/cr implementation to/in at least one further second engineering tool.
lb In one advantageous refinement, operation comprises the regulation and/or control and/or operator ccntrol and/or parameter.i.zation and/or observation of automation-engineer.i.ng resources.
In addition, it is possible Lo provide that the created and/or marked elements can be retrieved from the at least one data memory selectively end/or under user control and/or can he made available or provided for selective and/or automated transfer, 91; In one development of the system, the elements comprise not only control logic elements and fragments but also complementary prcconfigured data strucLures and/or information, parLicularly faceplates, or visual display images and/or graphics, and/or documcntations and/or
descriptions.
In one advantageous refinement of the system, at least one processing device comprises a processing tool which can be used Lo prompt and/or perform management, including user management and of Lhe access right.-s, and/or conditioning and/or classification and/or prioriLization and/or selective enabling of the transmitted elements and/or elements made available for retrieval and also of the remainder or the structu-ces and information that can be made available.
One development can provide that at least one processing dovice has a categorization tool which can be used to prompt and/cr perform assessment and/or categorization and/or denotation and/or adaptation of the transmitted elements.
It is also possibie to provide that elements which have been transferred and/or sot or made available can be denoted on the basis of function and/or purpose and/or the application options thorofor and/or continued u-se thereof arid/or enabling thereof can be limited or restriced on the basis of denotation.
In a further refinement, it is provided that the categorization tool can be used to impress at 1 east one terminating date and/or a period of time onto each element chat can be made available, wherein the at least one terminating date indicates up until when and/or the period of Lime indicates when the element can be used and/or applied and/or retr.i eyed, particularly in connection with enabling merely for test purposes but not for real application.
The aforementioned system advantageously allows the prompting and performance of systematic interchange and reuse and continued use of particularly program code elements and/or code fragments for Liie development and/or design of control logic units for the operation of automation-engineering resources and the making available thereof and the retrieval thereof from a data memory that is provided and set up for the purpose, particularly an appropriaLo database, and via a network that is set up for the purpose.
In one advantageous embodiment, at leasL one conditioning tool is provided which can be uscd to condition and/or generalize, particularly to convert into a standardized data structure, such as XML, the various elements, particularly the respective logic and/or program code fragments, before they are set or made available on the data memory.
One development can provide that the respective processing device in collaboration with the respective interface device and the respective engineering tool can be used to select and/or denote a plurality of elements directly in the fl rst engineering tool anU to group elements, particularly logic elements, that have been marked and dencted in this way automatically into objects and/or functional modules arid, particularly in automated fashion, to transfer said elements to the processing device and to the at least one data memory and to make available said elements for further processing and/or distribution, particularly for retrieval and/or implementation in aL least one further second engineering tool.
In a further refinement, at least onc assessment tool is provided which can be used to prompt and/or perform assessment and/or annotation of the transmitted logic elements and/or code fragments, but also the remainder of the information, particularly on the basis of the problem on which they arc based and/or the function which they perform.
In one advantageous development, the assessment tool allows the creation of a type of position table "ranking" fcr the transmitted elements, with the assessment being able to he carried ouL or performe.d using at least one predeterminable assessment scheme.
In this case, the respective assessment scheme can advantageously comprise and/or take account of one or more assessment criteria, the individual assessment criteria again being able to be weighted or prioritized in different ways. This is advantageous particularly when a plurality of reusable and/or selectable approaches to solutions have already been made available for a problem which differ in terms of individual criteria, such as speed of execution, complexity, memory requirement, variable and/or parameter management, flexibility and/or programming language, reliability, validity and/or safety, however.
The ranking can be used to distinguish and accordingly select program elements and program code fragments which are particularly recommendable and less recommendable. The position table thei..efore reflects empirical data, particularly empirical values from previous users, parLicularly engineers, technicians and the like, in particular.
Eurthermore, a further refinement allows references to he indicated, that is to say that histori. cal and/or empirical data/information are/is sto..ed with the respective fragment, for example where, when and to what extent the respective fragment has been used by whom for which purpose.
In one development, the position table can also be used to provide a type of reward mechanism for the developer and/or provider of the respoctive information and/or of the respective logic element.
In a further embodiment, at least one processing device is provided which comprises a visual display tool which can be used to indicate and/or output status information relating to a respective element on a display device, particularly also in graphi cal. form. T n this case, it is possible to indicate and/or present part.i cularly status information, such as "Top 10 Percent contributor" and/or number of downloads or element retrievals and/or number of access operations.
In a further refinement, the assessment tool can advantageously be used to capture and/or customize an annotation relating to an or a group of element(s) or fragment(s). in this case, the respecLive annotation may also comprise description contents relating to the respective element.
In one development, a further processing tool that can be provided is a search tool which can be used to search and/or investigate annotaLioris and/or assessments for keywords and code words.
In addiLion, it is advantageously possible to provide tlt aL least one communication device is provided vthich creates and/or makes available a virtual forum and/or an interchange platrorm for the exchange of views. In this case, the interchange can be effected by using a network that is provided and set up for the purpose, particularly a control system or the internet.
Additionally, it is possible to provide that the assessment device makes available means, particularly
appropriate masks with input fields, which allow a
respective engineer to input or capture assessments and/or annotations in this regard.
it is also advantageously possible to provide means for assessing the comments and annotations that are set.
These comments could he used as a basis for a type of reward system for the developers and/or authors of the comments, for example.
Advantageously, it is possible to provide access means which can be used, when an element is set or is transferred to the processing device, to define access rights to this element in fine-qrained fashion, that is to say that the person making the setting, for example the developer, can actually define and/or indicate who is then permitted to download-ttis element or fragment under what conditions or who is permitted and/or able to access it. Advantageously, it is therefore possible to provide a use limitation, with the result that the availability of an element can he selectively limited in terms of scope, use, geographical readiness and user.
In a further refinement, identification means for explicit system identification are provided, with the result that when a logi a element or fragment is intendod to be retrieved via the system, this identification can be indicated and verified in advance.
In addition, it...s possible to provide that each element or fragment which is made available for retrieval is subject to information concerning that system identification and/or that application for which the respective element is licensed and hence enabled for implementation. The respective receiving or implementing engineering and runtime system then ensures that only licensed components can be used.
In addition, it is advantageously possible to provide that when an element has been set or has been transferred to the system, it undergoes at lcas one checking step, with predeterminable checking criteria, particularly regarding quality, safety, reliability and operation, being stored for the check.
In addition, provision may also be made for the check to be performed in a plurality of steps, with the respective element first of all being checked superficially and being enabled for use for test purposes in the event of an appropriate result. A further, second, more thorough check is then performed, and only then is the respective element also enabled for production purposes in the event of a positive result. The aim of this approach is to make elements available at least as a test version or for test purposes as quickly as possible.
In one development, a feedback option, for example a forum, can be provided for every single element and comprises or makes available means for obtaining fine-grairLed product feedback from the end customer or end user of the respective element and thereby improving the quality of the elements that are made available in a retrieval form ior implementation and/or di.stribu ion.
It is also advantageously possible to provide a search tool which automatically searches predetermined sources, in par icular accesslbie databases and/or the Internet, .Lor updates and/or more recent versions of already known elements and/or new or alternative elements, particularly hitherto unknown or else unused elements, for examwl. including planning nodules or planning fragments, and indicates any hits found and makes them available for download and/or makes all appropriate request and/or makes available information in this regard, particularly hits information, in list form or in tabular form, for etample.
In one advantageous embodiment, the search, particularly for new or alternative elements or frayl[lents, is effected on the basis of the evaluation of specific project data from the base or the data or information memory of the respective engineering tool and/or on the basis of the respective user profile.
-10 -In one development, a further refinement contains moans and/or has means made availabl.e which a respective system user Liinself or a system administrator with appropriate authorization can use to prescribe and capture the user profile of said system user.
In this case, the respective profile may advantageously contain details and/or information relating to the area of use and/or the sector, for example whether a power station, a sewage treatment installation, a wind power installation, polymer production, a mill, a brewery, paper production, a painting line or the like is involved, and/or relating to at least one sought function or functionality, for example whether regulatory functions, control tuncLions, monitoring functions, optimization functions, filLer functions or the like and possibly a combination thereof are intended to be sought and implemented.
By contrast, the project data can be Laken or extracted from specific projects, specific pr ojects being understood to mean those projects which are already, at least partially, realized and/or impiemented, and/or comprise all, the elements imported on a system basis to date, particularly planning modules, demo modules and also modules which have been bought in or else licensed externally (externally to the system) Ln addition, it l.a advantagcously possible to provide that Lhe search for updates and/or more recent versions of already known elements and/or new or alternative elements can be performed on the basis of a resource configuration for the respecLive user, which resource configuration can be prescribed to the system. The respcctive resource configuration, for example comprising type and number of resources, linkage and/cr dependencies among one another, requisite or respectively used raw materials, auxiliaries and -11 -resources, utilization leveL and/or hours of operation and so forth, can advantageously he captured and/or stored as part of the respective user profile in this case.
in addition, the presented object is achieved by a method br distributing and interchanging elements for the planning and/or operation of automation-engineering resources, including for performance on the aforementioned system, wherein at least one integrative connection to at least one engineering tool and/or at least one inbograLive link be at least one engineering tool is used Lo make available elements that have been created from a first engineering tool and/or marked for the purpose of furLher processing and for the purpose of rebricval and/or for Lransfer and/or i.mpi.ementat on to/in aL least one fur Lher second engi neering tool + In one development, operation comprises the regulation arid/or conbrol and/or operator control and/or parameberization and/or observation of automation-engineering resources.
On the basis of the method, it is also possible to provide that the created and/or marked elements can be retrieved selectively and/or under user control and/or are made available or provided for selective and/cr automated transfer.
In one deve opmerit of the method, the elements comprise not on 1 y con Lrol logic elements and fragments bub also complementary preconfiqured data structures and/or information, particularly facep.Lates, or visual display images and/or graphics, and/or documentations and/or
descriptions.
In a further form of the method, management, including user management. and of the access rights, and/or -12 -conditioning and/or classification and/or prioritization and/or selective enabling of the elements that have been.set or have been made available for transfer and/or retrieval and also of the remainder of the structures and information that can be made available, is prompted and/or performed.
In one development, provision may be made for assessment and/or categorization and/or denotation and/or annotation of the respective transferrable and/or set elements to be performed, particularly before they are transferred and/or made available.
Jt is also possible to provide thaL elements which are transferrable and/or have been eeL or made available are denoted on the basis of function and/or purpose and/or the application options therefor and/or continued use thereof and/or enabling thereof is limited or restricted on the basis of denotation.
In a further r ef inement, it is possible to provide Lhat at least one terminating date and/or a period of Lime is impressed onto an element that has been set and/or can he made available, wherein the at least one terminating date indicates up until when and the period of time indicates when the respective elem&nt can be used and/or applied and/or roLrieved, parLicularly in connection with enabling merely for test purposes hut not for the real, practical application.
In one development of the method, it is advantageously possible to prompt and perform systematic interchange and reuse and continue.d use of particularly program code elements and/or code fragments for the development and/or design of control logic units for the operation of automation-engineering resources and the making available thereof arid Lhe retrieval thereof via a network that is set up for the purpose+ -13 -In one development, it is possible to provide that a plurality of elements can be selected and/or denoted directly in the first engineering tool, and elements that have been marked and denoted iii this way, particularly logic elements, are automatically grouped into objects and/or functional modules and are made available, particularly in automaLed fashion, for further processing and/or distribution, particularly for retrieval and/or implementation in at least one further seccnd engineering tool.
It is also advantageously possible to prompt and/or perform assessment and/or aririoLation of Lhc' elements which can be t.. ansmitted and/or which have been set or made available, particularly the logic elements and/or code fragments, hut also the remainder of the information, partiularly on the basis of the problem on which they are based and/or the function which they nerform.
In this case, the assessment can be performed using assessment criteria, the individuai assessment criteria again being able to be weighted or prioritized in different ways.
The ranking can be used to distinguish and accordingly select elements, in particular program elements and program cede fragments, which are particularly recommendable arid less recommendable.
The position table therefore reflects empirical data, particularly empirical values from previous users, particularly engineers, technicians and the like, in particular.
In one development, it is possible to provide that status information relating to a respective element is -14 -indicated and/or output on a display device, particularly also in graphical form.
In addition, it is advantageously possible to provide Lhat when an element has been set or before said clement has been transferred and/or made available it is checked -on the basis of the mcLhod -using predetermi.nable checking criteria, particularly regarding quality and/or safety and/or reliability for performance and function.
In addition, provision may also be made for the check to be performed in a plurality of sLops, with the respective element first of all being checked superficially and being enabled for use for test purposes in the event of an appropriate result. A further, second, more thorough check is then performed, and only then is the respective element also enabled for production purposes in the event of a positive result. The objective iii this case is to make elements available at least as a test version or for test purposes as quicki.y as possible.
In one advantageous embodiment of the method, it is possible to perform an automated or at least semi-automated search which searches predeterminabie sources, in particular accessible databases and/or the Internet, for updates and/or more recent versions of already known elements and/or new or alternative elemonts, parti cul arly hitherto unknown or else unused elements, for example including planning modules or planning fragments, and indicates any hits found and makes them available for download and/or makes an appropriate request and/or makes available information in [his regard, particularly hits information, In this case, the search can advantageously be performed on the basis of the evaluation of specific -15 -project data from Ltie base or the data or information memory of the respecLive engineering tool and/or on the basis of the respective user profile.
In this case, the user profile of a respective user can be prescribed and captured by the user himself or a sysLern or process administrator wiLh appropriate authorization.
In this case, the respective profile may advantageously contain details and/or information relating to the area of use and/or the sector, for example whether a power sLation, a sewage treatment ixLsLallation, a wind power installation, polymer producLion, a mill, a brewery, paper production, a painting line or the like is involved, and/or reflt ing to at least one sought function or functionality, for example whether regulatory functions, control functions, monitoring functions, optimization functions, filter functions or thc like and possibly a combination thereof arc inLonded to he so-oght and implemented.
By contrast, the project data can be taken or exLracted from specific projects, specific projects being understood to mean those projects which are already, at least partially, realized and/or implemented, and/or comprise all the elements imported on a system basis to caLe, particularly planning modules, domo modules and also modules which have been bought in or else licensed cxLernally (externally to the system) In addition, it is advantageously possible to provide that the search for updates and/or more recent versions of already known elements and/or new or alternative elements can be performed on the basis of a prescribable resource configuration for the respective user. The respccLive resource confi guration, for example comprising type and number of resources, -16 -linkage and/or dependencies among one ariotrer, requisite or respect.vely used raw materials, auxiliaries and resources, utilization level and/or hours of operation and so forth, can advantageously be captured and/or stored as part of the respective user profile in this case.
The invention and advantageous refinemenLs and developments will he expwained further with reference to a few figures and exemplary embodiments which are specified below.
The single figure (figure 1) shows a system in exemplary form for dis:rihuting and interchanging elements, particularly for interchanging control logic elements, for the planning arid/or operation of automation-enaineering resources.
Figure 1 shows a system in exemplary form for distributing and interchanging elements for the planning and/or operation of automati on-engineering resources. Such interchange is advantageous particularly for Ltie engineering of automation-engineering installation operations and process automation because the actual engineering, that is to say particularly the planning and/or design and/or development, can be made much more efficient by using components and elements which are already tried and tested.
The exemplary system 10 comprises an interface device 2, a processing device 14 and also a data memory 16, wherein the interface device 12 prompts an integrative connection to at least one first engineering tool 18 and a second engineering tool 20, such that functionalities of the interface device 12 and also of the processing device 14 can be called from the respective enineering tool 1B, 20 and executed, and -17 -wherein the processing device 14 in collaboraLton with the interface device 12 and the respective engirieer-ing tool can he used to transfer elements 22a,b that have been created from the f irst engineering tool 18 and/or marked to the processing device 14 and to process said elements and/or to make available said elements on the data memory 16 for the purpose of retric ui and/or for transfer and/or implementation to/tn the second engineering tool 20.
In this case, the actual. interchange process can be in essentially two method sections, namely an upload of Lhe respective elements 22a,b from the first engineering tool 18 via the interface device 12 inLo lb Lhe processing device 14 and onto the data memory 1:6, and a download from the data memory 16 or Lho processing device 14 onto the second engineering tool 20. In this case, the elements 22a,b may he any information, documentations, program code means, face plates and the like which is required for the operation, that is to say Lhc regulation cud/or control.
and/or operator control and/or parameteri.zati on and/or observation, of one or more automation-engineering resources.
The download of the created and/or marked elements 22a,b from the data memory 16 can be performed selectively and/or under user control, or the created and/or marked elements 22a,b can be made available for selective and/or automated Lransfer.
By way for example, the upload involves a control logic element that has been created in an engineering tool 18 being transferred to the processing device 14 via the system-complianL interface device 12 for the integrative connection of an engineering Lool 18, 20, wherein a plurality of checking sLeps can be undergone which, by way of example, are inLended to check whether -18 -the respective element 22a,h is enabled generally or is enabled in limited fashion for merely interna use. The quality of the respective element and/or the identity of the creator or user are also advantageously checked.
II the check proceeds successfully, the relevant element 22a,b is made available on a data memory fcr retrieval by a second engineering tool 20 and for implementation for a production process.
If the quality check does not yield a sufficiently positive result, the element can also be enabled merely for evaluation or test purposes.
Depending on requirements, it is also possible for two versions to he stored for an elemexii 22a,b namely one for evaluation purposes and one for production, for example, and to be provided for retrieval, with he element being respectively enabled and forwarded to a respective second engineering tool 20 on the basis of requirements and/or request.
In this case, the interface device 12 uses current concepts such as web services, for example, to set up an integrative connection to the respective enginee-cing tool 18, 20.
In this context, integrative is understood to mean that functions of the system 10 and particularly of the processing device 14 but also of the inter..ace device 12 can be called direoLly from the respectively connected engineering tool 18, 20 and used.
Thus, the respective web service can be used to create and implement a type of "Add On", for example, in the form of a menu and/or a function line in the respective engineering Lool 18, 20, said add on then being able to he used Lo call and/or perform appropriate sysLem functions.
-19 -The processing dcvi cc 1 4 has a process:i..ng tool 24 which can be used to prompt and/or perform management of the users and of tie access rights and also conditioning and classification and finally also selective enabling of the elements that have been transmitted and/or made available for retrieval and also of the remainder of the structures and information that can he made availah.l e.
In addition, a categorization tool 26 is provided which is used to prompt and perform assessment and/or categorization and/or denotation and/or annotation of Lhe transmitted elements. Ry way of example, the aim of this assessment may be to indicate empirical values with The respective element, that is to say where used, when used, in what context (area of application) used and with what actual effect or result, for example.
Alternatively, it may involve how the respective element was 110 handle. For the most objective assessment possible, assessment criteria in this regard can be predetermined.
This tool can also he used to denote the elements which have been transferred and/or set or made available on the basis of function and/or purpose and to limit tie application options therefor and/or reuse thereof arid/or enabling thereof on the basis of denotation.
Furthermore, the categorization tool 26 can be used to impress at least one terminating date and/or a period of time onto each element 22a,b that can he made available, wherein the at least one terminating date indicates up until when arid the period of time indicates when the element can be used and/or applied and/or retri eyed, particularly in connection with enabling merely for Lest purposes but not for real application.
-20 -In addition, the processing device 14 comprises a visual display tool 28 which can he used to indicate and/or output status information relating to a respective element on a display device, particularly also in graphical form.
In one development, a furLher processing tool which can be provided is a search tool 30 which can be used as part of an internal search to search and/or investigate elements 22a,b that have been transferred to the system 10, particularly cornmenLs and/or assessments, for keywords and code words. FurLhermore, the search tool can also be used to Jiorm an external search, for example for updates and/or elements with specific functionalit.i.es and/or instructions and/or... comments, in predeterminahl.e data sources, particularly in relevant databases 32, including customer databases 33, and/or networks, such as the World Wide Web and/or the Internet 34 and/or an intranet, using key words and code words.
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