WO2013068023A1 - Système et procédé permettant de distribuer un outil d'ingénierie de système de commande et/ou un logiciel d'application de commande - Google Patents

Système et procédé permettant de distribuer un outil d'ingénierie de système de commande et/ou un logiciel d'application de commande Download PDF

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WO2013068023A1
WO2013068023A1 PCT/EP2011/005642 EP2011005642W WO2013068023A1 WO 2013068023 A1 WO2013068023 A1 WO 2013068023A1 EP 2011005642 W EP2011005642 W EP 2011005642W WO 2013068023 A1 WO2013068023 A1 WO 2013068023A1
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  • the invention relates to an arrangement and a method for distributing one or multiple control system engineering tools and/or control application software to a first and at least one further processing device or group of processing devices.
  • control system engineering plays a role in different industry sectors, such as process industry like pharmaceutical and chemical industry, or manufacturing industry or mineral and oil and gas industry.
  • control system engineering is used for all kinds of activities which are related to the designing, verification and validation, implementation and testing of a control system for a technical system used in these industry sectors, where the technical system may be a technical installation, an industrial plant or an industrial process.
  • the control system comprises at least one industrial control device, at least one sensor and at least one actuator, where the control device receives measurements taken by the at least one sensor from the technical system and determines based on these measurements and, if applicable, based on further information suitable actions of the at least one actuator to regulate the behaviour of the technical system.
  • Control system engineering usually requires the use of advanced control system engineering tools in the form of software products with complex functionalities, e.g. RobotStudio for programming robots, CoDeSys for programming programmable logic controllers (PLCs), Function Designer for programming ABB's AC800M controllers or Fieldbus Builder for configuring field devices. It may also involve different engineers which stepwise design and commission different domains of the industrial plant or industrial process. Hence, different engineering software may be used by different groups and persons. The development of such complex software and the distribution, installation, maintenance and service of it requires high efforts.
  • control application software being for example an executable and/or configuration data which is to be loaded onto the above described industrial control device, or being a HMI (human machine interface) related software which allows displaying control relevant data.
  • Typical industrial control devices are for example programmable logic controllers (PLC), controllers of a distributed control system (DCS), robot controllers for industrial robots, embedded controllers for manufacturing equipment, industrial PCs (IPCs), intelligent devices like field bus devices or controllers of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.
  • PLC programmable logic controllers
  • DCS distributed control system
  • IPCs intelligent devices like field bus devices or controllers of a supervisory control and data acquisition
  • SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
  • a control system engineering software X containing a control system engineering tool is delivered to each of the illustrated three customers, customerl , customer2 and customer3 on a storage medium, such as the depicted CD 2.
  • a storage medium such as the depicted CD 2.
  • each customer installs the control system engineering software X on his respective computer device PC1 , PC2 or PC3.
  • individual configurations of the control system engineering software X1 , X2 and X3, respectively, are generated.
  • WSDL Web Services Description Language
  • one controller of the industrial control system acts as a master and interacts with the other controllers on the network in order to synchronize or update them based at least in part on resources maintained by the master, where the resources are memory, processor bandwidth, programs, variables or configurations.
  • the web service component maintains one or more lists of resources, such as logic programs and firmware revisions, associated with one or more controllers in the network. If a change in logic programs or firmware revisions is detected, the web service component can distribute the corresponding resources to the controllers in accordance with the lists.
  • control system engineering software requires high effort and provision of a considerable number of installation alternatives due to differing customizations.
  • software updates usually requires customer interaction. This may simply mean the basic interaction between installation program and user, but it may also mean that the installation process requires that specific configuration parameters need to be chosen repeatedly for each software update. If software bugs are detected, the distribution of a new software release follows the same procedures with the same disadvantages.
  • the vendor does not have access to the customized installation of the control system engineering tool in the customer's personal environment. In case of software installations on a remotely accessible server, a permanent, reliable and broadband online connection to the server is required.
  • control application software a direct connection between the industrial control device and the computer device which stores the output of the control system engineering tool is required.
  • the problem solved by this invention is to provide an arrangement and method for distributing a control system engineering tool and/or a control application software with which the above named drawbacks are overcome.
  • cloud based storage has become more and more popular.
  • Different vendors and their cloud storage solutions as for example DropBox, Microsoft with Live Sync, Apple with iDrive and Google with GDrive, provide cloud storage that allows storage of data, e.g.
  • cloud storage documents or photos, on one or more servers, where the storage servers are not individually visible to the user.
  • the user just sees "the cloud storage” as his storage medium and connects to it via an Internet based network connection.
  • the stored data is permanently synchronized with a local folder on the personal computer or computers of each user.
  • the principle of cloud storage is illustrated by Fig. 3.
  • Each user has access to only his personally assigned space, Spacel to Space3, in the cloud storage.
  • Specific synchronization software in the following called cloud software, is installed on each individual computer device, PC1 to PC3, to permanently perform the synchronization process in the background between one or more designated folders on the respective computer device PC1 , PC2 or PC3 and the corresponding space in the cloud storage, Spacel , Space2 or Space3, respectively.
  • the synchronization is performed whenever the respective computer device has online access via communication line 5 to the cloud storage.
  • a useful feature of cloud storage is the possibility to share files or folders to other users across different operating systems and across firewalls. Cloud storage not only works on computer devices as personal computers (PC) but also on mobile devices like tablet PCs or mobile phones.
  • cloud storage solutions provide versioning functionality for individual data files which allows to restore data from older file versions and to track changes between files.
  • DriverUpdate identifies whether a driver software on the PC needs updating or whether parts of the driver software are missing, identifies the proper executable file for the respective operating system and automatically starts downloading and installing the driver update or missing part.
  • Portable software is a type of software that is executable on a computer device without needing to be installed on the computer device.
  • Portable software contains all required code directly and does not need to merge with the operating system. It may for example be stored on a memory stick and can be executed directly from the memory stick on every computer device it is inserted into, provided the computer device has the required operating system.
  • the concept of portable software is common in operating systems like MacOS or Unix and is nowadays extended to Microsoft Windows as well.
  • the arrangement for distributing a control system engineering tool and/or a control application software to a first and at least one further processing device or group of processing devices comprises a cloud storage containing a first and at least one further virtual storage spaces.
  • the cloud storage is arranged to copy the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software into the first and the at least one further virtual storage spaces.
  • at least one synchronization unit is arranged to establish a communication link between the first virtual storage space and a first local storage space or first group of local storage spaces contained in the first processing device or first group of processing devices, respectively, as soon as a first communication connection is established between the cloud storage and the first processing device or first group of processing devices; and to establish a communication link between the at least one further virtual storage space and at least one further local storage space or at least one further group of local storage spaces contained in the at least one further processing device or at least one further group of processing devices, respectively, as soon as at least one further communication connection is established between the cloud storage and the at least one further processing device or at least one further group of processing devices.
  • the synchronization unit is arranged to compare the contents of the first local storage space or first group of local storage spaces with the contents of the first virtual storage space; and to compare the contents of the at least one further local storage space or at least one further group of local storage spaces with the contents of the at least one further virtual storage space.
  • the first and/or the at least one further virtual storage space contains additional and/or more recent data files compared to the corresponding first and/or at least one further local storage space or group of storage spaces, respectively, where the data files belong to the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software
  • the synchronization unit is arranged to automatically start a copy process of the additional and/or more recent data files to the first and/or the at least one further local storage space or group of local storage spaces, respectively.
  • the method according to the invention comprises the steps of
  • the first and/or the at least one further virtual storage space contains additional or more recent data files compared to the corresponding first and/or at least one further local storage space or group of local storage spaces, respectively, where the data files belong to the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software, to automatically starting a copy process of the additional or more recent data files to the first and/or the at least one further local storage space or group of local storage spaces, respectively.
  • the provider of a control system engineering tool and/or of a control application software distributes the respective software product via individually allocated, virtual storage spaces in a cloud storage, where each virtual storage space is allocated to a local storage space on a particular customer device or to a group of local storage spaces, with each member of the group of local storage spaces being part of one corresponding member of a group of customer devices, called processing devices.
  • Each virtual storage space is assigned to a specific customer or to a specific software user, i.e. no third party has generally access to the virtual storage spaces.
  • the provider of the control system engineering tool and/or control application software uses the virtual storage spaces as a container for providing the latest suitable version or the latest suitable update of the respective software product to a particular customer, by transferring the latest suitable version or update into the virtual storage space assigned to the particular customer.
  • a synchronization unit automatically checks whether updated and thereby more recent data files are present on the virtual storage space. If so, the more recent data files are copied into the local storage space or group of local storage spaces of the customer and are thereby available for being used and executed by the customer. This procedure can be performed individually for each customer, i.e. each virtual storage space may contain a different configuration of a specific control system engineering tool or control application software.
  • the cloud storage is arranged to copy the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software into the first and the at least one further virtual storage spaces simultaneously.
  • this solution provides the fastest way to achieve it.
  • the cloud storage is arranged to copy the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software into the first and the at least one further virtual storage spaces as soon as an updated version of the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software is available, i.e. on the side of the software provider or developer, the process for keeping the virtual storage spaces updated is automated so that always the latest and most up-to-date version of the respective software product is present.
  • the cloud storage is arranged to copy an individualized version of the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software into the corresponding first and/or at least one further virtual storage space. Combining the last two embodiments results in a solution where the customer is always automatically provided with the latest, individualized update of the control system
  • the individualized version of the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software is adapted to the operating system or specific hardware of the first and/or the at least one further processing device or group of processing devices.
  • the individualized version of the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software contains a predetermined number and type of subcomponents of the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software.
  • the at least one synchronization unit is arranged to be executed individually on the first and/or the at least one further processing device or group of processing devices.
  • the at least one synchronization unit is arranged to be executed on a system containing the cloud storage.
  • the synchronization unit can be implemented to run either locally on the individual processing devices or centrally in the same system which contains the cloud storage. In the latter case, the synchronization unit will have to be linked with the individual virtual storage spaces in order to perform the synchronization to the respective local storage space or group of storage spaces individually.
  • the first and/or the at least one further local storage space or group of storage spaces contains individual data which were generated by the respective first and/or at least one further processing device or group of processing devices in connection with the execution of the control system engineering tool and/or the control application software.
  • the at least one synchronization unit is arranged to compare the contents of the first and/or at least one further local storage space or group of local storage spaces with the contents of the corresponding first and/or at least one further virtual storage space with respect to the individual data.
  • the at least one synchronization unit automatically starts a copy process of the additional and/or more recent individual data to the first and/or the at least one further virtual storage space, respectively.
  • This mechanism allows for the customer or user of the control system engineering tool or the control application software to use the assigned virtual storage space for saving data files belonging to the control system engineering tool or control application software, respectively.
  • These data files can be input files, such as configuration files, which are to be read by the control system engineering tool or control application software during execution, or they can be output files, such as historian values or error reports, generated by the control system engineering tool or control application software during execution.
  • the customer or user always has a synchronized copy of these individual data on the corresponding virtual storage space, which he may use to distribute the data from the virtual storage space to other processing devices.
  • Certain individual data, which may be of interest for the provider of the control system engineering tool or control application software, such as error reports, may be accessed by his personnel directly on the virtual storage space, provided that the customer or user of the virtual storage space allowed the access.
  • an analysing tool is arranged to retrieve a copy of the contents of the first and/or the at least one further virtual storage space and to analyse the contents, for example for inconsistencies. In this way it is for example possible to automatically detect when a combination of certain parts of the control system engineering tool or of the control application software is incompatible due to version conflicts.
  • Fig. 1 the known process of distributing control system engineering tools via hardcopy
  • Fig. 2 the known way of providing permanent remote access to an installation of a
  • Fig. 3 the known way of using cloud storage for permanently synchronized storing of files
  • Fig. 4 a first embodiment of the arrangement and method according to the invention
  • Fig. 5 a second embodiment of the arrangement and method according to the invention.
  • Fig. 4 shows a cloud storage 9 assigned to or even operated by a developer and provider of a control application software X.
  • the control application software X is intended for industrial control devices in process automation systems.
  • Three different customers, userl , user2 and user3, have purchased the control application software X and installed individualized versions of it, X1 to X2, in their respective process automation system on several industrial control devices, i.e. on a group of processing devices, PLC1 , PLC2 and PLC3.
  • PLC1 , PLC2 and PLC3 For each customer, userl to user3, an individually assigned virtual storage space, 6a to 6c, is arranged in the cloud storage 9, where only the customer himself and the provider have access to.
  • a configuration unit 1 individualized the control application software X for each customer, userl to user3, by configuring the software depending on customer specific parameters, for example in order to take into account the operating system and/or specific hardware of the processing devices used in the respective group of processing devices, PLC1 to PLC3, and in order to deliver to each customer only those subcomponents of the software which he requires.
  • the individualized versions of the control application software, X1 to X3 are then transferred into the virtual storage spaces, 6a to 6c, corresponding to the respective customer.
  • each processing device in the respective groups of processing devices, PLC1 to PLC3, contains a synchronization unit, 8a to 8c, which has access to a corresponding local storage space, 7a to 7c, installed on each of the processing devices.
  • a communication connection 5b usually an Internet connection
  • the synchronization unit 8b in the processing device establishes a communication link between its assigned local storage space 7b and the corresponding virtual storage space 6b in the cloud space 9.
  • the synchronization unit 8b compares the contents of the two storage spaces, 7b and 6b, and recognizes that the virtual storage space 6b contains a more recent version of the individualized control application software X2. As a result, it starts to copy or download the data files belonging to the individualized control application software X2 from the virtual storage space 6b to the corresponding local storage space 7b.
  • the copy process may be performed silently or - if the customer user2 prefers to be involved in the updating process - by involving a dialogue with the customer.
  • synchronization unit 8b Further modifications and options for the operation of synchronization unit 8b are available, such as for example the possibilities to disable the automatic downloading function or to adjust the maximum bandwidth of the network load for the communication link between virtual and local storage space or to only provide time limited access to the cloud storage 9. It is possible that only updated single data files are placed by the provider on the virtual storage space for downloading, in order to minimize the traffic on the communication link, or that always the whole software package with all data files is updated.
  • the synchronization unit could be arranged to perform the comparing and downloading only once, after the communication connection to the cloud storage has newly been established, or repeatedly as long as the connection is alive.
  • the downloaded files could be used to overwrite existing files having the same names on the local storage space, or a separate copy in a separate folder could be generated.
  • Fig. 5 differs from Fig. 4 in that for each customer, userl to user3, only one processing device is allocated to a corresponding virtual storage space 6a to 6b in the cloud storage and that the processing devices are personal computers, PC1 to PC3. Further, the software to be distributed to the customers is a control system engineering tool X which is not individualized but installed in the same configuration on all processing devices, PC1 to PC3.
  • individual data, D1 to D3 are stored in each of the local storage spaces, 7a to 7c, where the individual data D1 to D3 are data files generated in connection with the execution of the control system engineering tool X on the particular processing device, PC1 to PC3, for example configuration files for configuring the way the execution of certain subcomponents of the control system engineering tool X is performed, or input files to or output files from the control system engineering tool X.
  • the individual data D1 to D3 are data files generated in connection with the execution of the control system engineering tool X on the particular processing device, PC1 to PC3, for example configuration files for configuring the way the execution of certain subcomponents of the control system engineering tool X is performed, or input files to or output files from the control system engineering tool X.
  • synchronization unit 8c starts comparing the contents of the virtual storage space 6c with the contents of the local storage space 7c and recognizes, that the virtual storage space 6c contains data files belonging to the control system engineering tool X which have a more recent date than those in the local storage space 7c and that the individual data D3 on the local storage space 7c have been updated.
  • the synchronization unit 8c downloads the more recent data files from the virtual storage space 6c to the local storage space 7c, and uploads the individual data D3 in the opposite direction.
  • the storage of individual data, D1 to D3, on the virtual storage spaces, 6a to 6c, may also be used by the respective customer, userl to user3, to share the data with third parties by giving them access to the virtual storage space, where a third party could for example be the provider's service team. If the customer user3 allowed for the provider to have access to the individual data D3 on the virtual storage space 6c, it becomes possible that in case of performance problems of the control system engineering tool, the provider uses the individual data D3 to analyze the situation by an analysing unit 10.
  • the analysing unit 10 may then either give advise to user3 for how to improve the situation or it may even initiate an adaption and optimization of the control system engineering tool to the customer's needs and replace the tool X in the virtual storage space 6c by an individualized version of the tool which is then automatically downloaded to and installed on the processing device PC3 the next time synchronization unit 8c compares the virtual and the local storage spaces.
  • synchronization unit 8c can again be configured according to different options, as explained with respect to Fig. 4.
  • a further option is that synchronization unit 8c allows for the restoration of previous versions of the control system engineering tool X and of individual data D3.
  • synchronization unit 8c may manage the simultaneous accessing to the control system engineering tool X and/or the individual data D3 by both the user3 and the provider. For example, it could be arranged for check-in and check-out functionality in order to prevent that a file which is being used by one party is simultaneously changed by another party.

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Selon l'invention, un système permettant de distribuer un outil d'ingénierie de système de commande et/ou un logiciel d'application de commande, appelé logiciel de commande, à un premier (PC1/PLC1) et à au moins un autre (PC2/PLC2, PC3/PLC3) dispositif de traitement ou groupe de dispositifs de traitement, comprend un stockage en nuage (9) contenant un premier (6a) et au moins un autre (6b, 6c) espace de stockage virtuel, le stockage en nuage (9) étant conçu pour copier le logiciel de commande (X) dans le premier (6a) et le ou ledit au moins un autre espace de stockage virtuel (6b, 6c), et au moins une unité de synchronisation (8a, 8b, 8c) conçue pour établir un lien de communication entre les espaces de stockage virtuels et des espaces de stockage locaux attribués individuellement ou des groupes d'espaces de stockage locaux (7a, 7b, 7c) contenus dans les dispositifs de traitement ou les groupes de dispositifs de traitement, dès qu'une connexion de communication correspondante (5a, 5b, 5c) est établie entre le stockage en nuage (9) et le dispositif de traitement respectif ou le groupe respectif de dispositifs de traitement. L'unité de synchronisation est conçue pour comparer individuellement les contenus des espaces de stockages locaux ou des groupes d'espaces de stockage locaux aux contenus des espaces de stockage virtuels correspondants. Lorsqu'un espace quelconque des espaces de stockage virtuels (6a, 6b, 6c) contient des fichiers de données supplémentaires et/ou plus récents appartenant au logiciel de commande (X), l'unité de synchronisation démarre automatiquement un processus de copie des fichiers de données supplémentaires et/ou plus récents dans respectivement l'espace de stockage local correspondant ou le groupe correspondant d'espaces de stockage locaux (7a, 7b, 7c).
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