WO2003094057A2 - Outil d'automatisation - Google Patents

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WO2003094057A2
WO2003094057A2 PCT/DE2003/001405 DE0301405W WO03094057A2 WO 2003094057 A2 WO2003094057 A2 WO 2003094057A2 DE 0301405 W DE0301405 W DE 0301405W WO 03094057 A2 WO03094057 A2 WO 03094057A2
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Werner HÖFLER
Rafael Nunez-Furtado
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B19/00—Programme-control systems
    • G05B19/02—Programme-control systems electric
    • G05B19/04—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
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  • the invention relates to an automation tool to support the planning and implementation of any automated technical processes.
  • Automation tools to support the planning and implementation of automated technical processes are generally known.
  • Further examples of such automation tools are so-called development applications, such as B. to create control programs to control and / or monitor such technical processes.
  • a disadvantage of these known automation tools is that each automation tool accesses its own database and thus, especially when different automation tools are used in succession during the planning and implementation of automated technical processes, a complex transfer and transfer of the data of the individual automation tools is required. Even after such a transfer or transfer of the data from a first to a second automation tool, there is no contextual or functional connection between the data. Every operator of an automation tool has to deal with the complete amount of data and is responsible for the correct use and processing of the data in his area of responsibility, without always knowing the origin, context or functionality of the individual data.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of specifying an automation tool with which a content or Functional connection between data relating to the respective technical process can be established and remains connected to the data, so that a link established by a first specialist entrusted with the planning and implementation of the technical process remains recognizable for other specialists.
  • an automation tool to support the planning and implementation of an automated technical process with, on the one hand, access to a database comprising a number of data on the technical process and, on the other hand, a user interface on a display device with a data window for displaying the data and at least one Represents work window, provided that individual data can be displayed in the work window and linked to data in the data window.
  • the invention is based on the knowledge that prior to the automated manufacture of a product or a workpiece, considerable effort must be expended to set up the corresponding automated manufacturing process. Manufacturing and automation specialists - hereinafter referred to as designers and automation engineers - are required. These receive specifications from other specialists - hereinafter referred to as technologists - who determine the characteristics of the product.
  • the technologist is the planner of a product.
  • B the model of a motor vehicle in the form of individual body parts with welding or other connection points or the prescription for a drug. He has a way of thinking that is essentially based on product properties, market conditions, competition, profitability, etc. In addition, criteria such as production times, production costs and product innovations are important influencing factors for the technologist.
  • the designer is the planner of the manufacturing facility. It provides machines and devices that transport or handle the body parts and connect them to one another or provide, mix, and chemically or thermally influence the raw materials of the drug. It has a way of thinking that is essentially based on physical processes or physical quantities. In his considerations, the designer includes objects such as system parts, (pipe) lines and materials or their movements or mobility.
  • the automation engineer plans to automate the resulting technical process. He creates a control program, under the influence of which the machines or devices influence the transport and treatment of the raw materials or products in such a way that the end product is ultimately manufactured. It has a way of thinking that is essentially based on digital quantities and closed states or smaller, independent units. In his considerations, he includes control functions, timings, drives and drive options, positions of moving or moving components in the process and states of the process. The automation engineer is familiar with the use of so-called state graphs, so that he is used to dividing the technical process into separable sub-processes, to which he successively devotes himself. His way of thinking is therefore less focused on the overall context of the technical process.
  • the advantage of the invention is that such information losses are largely avoided. All specialists use the same database for the respective description of the technical process or the description of their amount to solve the corresponding automation problem.
  • This database comprises a number of data, each date relating to a component or an aspect of the technical process.
  • Components of the technical process are e.g. B. containers, pipes, etc., motors, valves, etc., control element, limit switches, etc. as well as automation devices, such as. B. programmable logic controllers and / or decentralized peripheral devices.
  • Aspects of the technical process relate e.g. B. on an influenceability or controllability of individual components of the technical process.
  • the designer Based on the data displayed in the data window, the designer recognizes the need for a device for polishing the workpiece in the technical process. So he creates a date in the work window provided for him to represent such a device for polishing. When it is created in the working window, the date is also part of the database and can be displayed accordingly in the data window. If the designer or the technologist now links the date for representing the device for polishing with the or each date encoding the polishing, a configuration of the device for polishing is achieved, as it were. The data are no longer independent of each other, but are brought into a context based on the specific technical process.
  • a date can also be of a simple data type, such as B. byte, word, integer, etc., as of a composite and / or user-defined data type.
  • Compound data types are possible in almost any combination. Such data types are composed of simple and / or already defined composite data types.
  • the above-described creation of a date for representing a device for polishing can also take place automatically, namely because the polishing data can also be used to automatically conclude that the polishing is necessary. That is e.g. B. is the case when the data encoding the polishing are instances of a special data type, such as in particular a special object type.
  • the at least one working window is advantageously provided either for displaying data relevant for a technologist or for a designer or for an automation engineer. Then each specialist can use the work window provided for him to link the Make data displayed in the data window with data displayed in the data window that he can judge based on his knowledge.
  • Data window takes place by selecting the date in the working window with a pointing device, such as a mouse or the like, and moving it to the date to be linked in the data window, or by selecting the date in the data window with the pointing device and moving to the date to be linked in the working window.
  • a pointing device such as a mouse or the like
  • Such a measure of selecting an object, moving the object and releasing the selection of the object is usually referred to as "drag & drop” and is part of the range of functions when operating known user interfaces of widely used operating systems. If the automation tool can be used to link data by means of "drag & drop", this results in intuitive use for the operator, so that the automation tool can be used quickly and without major training.
  • a display of selected data in the data or work window is also referred to as a view.
  • a plurality of views are conceivable and useful for the data window and the or each work window, with each specialist defining his own views in addition to predefined views according to his particular needs.
  • a plurality of views can be defined for each specialist in order to control the technical process e.g. B. to divide spatially or functionally.
  • the specification and selection of views, in order to present the respective specialist only with the data relevant to him, is advantageously carried out e.g. B. in a manner as described in the German patent application entitled: Automation Tool, registered on May 3, 2002 for Siemens AG (official file number: 102 19 911.6).
  • FIG. 1 shows a screen representation of an automation tool
  • FIG. 2 shows an example of an object to be manufactured with an automated technical process
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of an automation system for controlling and / or monitoring the technical process.
  • the automation tool 12 is likewise only shown schematically. It is implemented as a software application in a manner known per se. As a software application, the automation tool 12 is used in a manner known per se for use and support in the planning and implementation of any automated technical processes a memory, not shown, of a computer, also not shown.
  • the user interface 11 comprises a data window 13 for displaying data 14 on the respective technical process. Any technical process that can be automated or automated can be used as a technical process.
  • the use of the automation tool 12 is described on the basis of further figures below.
  • the data 14 are stored centrally in a database 15, to which the automation tool 12 has access (indicated by a block arrow).
  • the automation tool 12 causes all or selected data 14 to be displayed in the data window 13 (likewise indicated by a block arrow). Together with the data 14 can (indicated in the figure only by a table structure next to the data) z.
  • individual attributes 14 assigned to the respective date are displayed, as described in German patent application 102 19 911.6 of Siemens AG.
  • the user interface 11 further comprises at least one working window 16, 17, 18. Three working windows 16, 17, 18 are shown. Each working window 16, 17, 18 is assigned to a specialist who contributes to the automation of the technical process. A first working window 16 is e.g. B. provided for a technologist. A second and third work window 17, 18 is, for. B. for a designer or an automation engineer. Since for each specialist the total of data 14 is the
  • Database 15 usually only a subset of this data 14 is relevant, each specialist is presented with precisely the data that are relevant to him in the work window 16, 17, 18 provided for him.
  • the respective specialist now takes into account his expertise, his contribution to the automation of the technical see processes and of course with regard to the technical process itself links between data 14 in the work window 16, 17, 18 provided for it and the data 14 in the data window 13.
  • the data 14 in the data window 13 can be organized in groups to improve the overview.
  • data 14 are summarized, which are more technology-related with regard to the technical process.
  • data 14 are summarized, which are more related to construction or automation with regard to the technical process.
  • the grouping of the data 14 enables the display of data 14 which is not relevant for a technologist, a designer or an automation engineer to be suppressed in a simple manner.
  • the display of data 14 can also be suppressed on the basis of attributes assigned to the data 14.
  • the linking of data 14 is done by a date 14 z. B. is selected in a working window 16, 17, 18 and by means of a pointing device such. B. a mouse, is dragged onto a date 14 in the data window 13 and there the selection is abandoned again. This procedure is referred to as "drag & drop" and is widespread when using graphical user interfaces.
  • the linking of data 14 can also take place starting from the data window 13 by dragging the selected date 14 onto a date 14 in a working window 16, 17, 18.
  • the linking of data 14 can also be done by manual assignment, e.g. B. by selecting the date 14 such that a context menu opens with an input field in which the date 14 to be linked or a reference to this date 14 is entered.
  • FIG. 2 shows, as an example of an object to be manufactured with an automated technical process, a fitting slide 22 with a first and second lateral profile views 23, 24.
  • the fitting slide 22 has a central bore 25 and four outer bores 26. Already with the positioning of these bores 25, 26 in the CAD view of the fitting slide 22, their dimension (radius, possibly depth) and position and thus individual dimensions of the fitting slide 22 are fixed. With regard to the central bore 25, these dimensions result in which drilling tool (radius) is to be used at which position of the fitting slide 22. The same applies to all outer bores 26 and correspondingly to contours, cutouts or recesses and surfaces.
  • the description of the fitting slide 22 by means of the CAD system is carried out in a manner known per se using different functionalities.
  • the CAD system has a suitable first functionality for making a bore 25, 26 in a workpiece, such as the fitting slide 22.
  • a suitable second functionality is accordingly provided for making cutouts or recesses in the workpiece.
  • the description of the fitting slide 22 therefore includes one
  • CAD system is determined with which the central bore 25 was created in the CAD view.
  • 3 shows a schematic overview of a technical process 27 by means of which workpieces, such as the fitting slide 22 described, can be produced.
  • the technical process 27 comprises different processing stations 28, 29, 30, 31, between each of which a material transport (indicated by the block arrows) takes place.
  • a first processing station 28 is e.g. B. provided for sawing.
  • a subsequent, second processing station 29 is e.g. B. provided for drilling and another subsequent, third processing station 30 is z. B. provided for milling.
  • a last, fourth processing station 31 is e.g. B. provided for treating the surface of the respective workpiece. With the fourth processing station 31, the surface of the fitting slide 22 z. B. be matt polished.
  • each processing station 28-31 is known from previous planning of the technical process 27.
  • the need for the presence of each processing station 28 - 31 can result from corresponding technological data 14 (FIG. 1) in the database 15 (FIG. 1).
  • the automation tool 12 Based on the presence of data 14 in the database 15, which - as described above - encode a drilling process, it can be concluded that there is a processing station 29 for drilling. This conclusion can also be made automatically by the automation tool 12 itself. A date 14 to represent such a processing station 29 can thus also be generated automatically by the automation tool 12.
  • the automation tool 12 can even automatically establish the link between the data 14 encoding the drilling and the data 14 representing the processing station 29 for drilling.
  • the automation system 32 comprises one
  • each processing station 28-31 is exactly one automation device 33-36, such as. B. a programmable logic controller or a decentralized peripheral device for its control and / or monitoring (indicated by the respective block arrow).
  • a programmable logic controller or a decentralized peripheral device for its control and / or monitoring (indicated by the respective block arrow).
  • several processing stations 28-31 can also be controlled and / or monitored by a single automation device 33-36 or individual processing stations 28-31 by several automation devices 33-36.
  • each automation device 33-36 is represented by a corresponding data item 14 (FIG. 1).
  • the responsible specialist z. B. the automation engineer the or each date 14 to represent the respective automation devices 33 - 36 with corresponding technology or construction-related data 14.
  • an example is a link between the date 14 and representing the second processing station 29 for drilling which this processing tion station 29 assigned automation device 34.
  • the more detailed and comprehensive the data 14 z. B. the representation of the respective automation device 33 - 36 the more concrete a link between the respective data 14 can be made.
  • the date 14 for representing an automation device 33-36 includes data structures for mapping the so-called process image (process image of the inputs and / or process image of the outputs), the date 14 which contains the drilling tool for making the central bore 25 (FIG. 2) in the fitting slide 22 are coded and assigned to an output, this output causing the selection of the drilling tool with a suitable diameter for the introduction of the central bore 25 during the later automatic operation of the technical process 27.
  • Corresponding assignments or links can be provided between further data 14 and the respective process inputs or outputs. The creation of such assignments or links will usually be the responsibility of the automation engineer. With such links, structures or fragments of a later control program for controlling and / or monitoring the technical process 27 can finally be derived from the totality of the data 14 in the database 15.
  • An automation tool 12 is provided to support planning and implementation of an automated technical process 27 with access to a database 15 comprising a number of data 14 relating to the technical process 27, which is displayed on a display device, such as a screen 10, represents a user interface 11 with a data window 13 for displaying the data 14 and at least one working window 16, 17, 18, wherein individual data 14 can be represented in the working window 16, 17, 18 and linked to data 14 in the data window 13.
  • the automation tool 12 builds a bridge between the conceptual worlds of the specialists involved. Communication problems and inconsistencies are eliminated or at least significantly reduced.

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L'invention concerne un outil d'automatisation (12) pour l'aide à la planification et à la réalisation d'un processus technique automatisé (27). L'outil d'automatisation selon l'invention comprend un accès à une base de données (15) comprenant un nombre de données (14) relatives au processus technique (27) et représente, sur un dispositif d'affichage (10), une interface utilisateur (11) comprenant une fenêtre de données (13) pour l'affichage des données (14) et au moins une fenêtre de travail (16, 17, 18). L'outil d'automatisation selon l'invention est caractérisé en ce que des données individuelles (14) peuvent être représentées dans la fenêtre de travail (16, 17, 18) et peuvent être combinées à des données (14) dans la fenêtre de données (13).
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