FA-device-configuration-design supporting apparatus and program

A factory automation (FA)-device-configuration-design supporting apparatus that performs editing of a profile including individual identification information and a definition of setting of an FA device and a setting range of the setting, the FA-device-configuration-design supporting apparatus comprising:

• a profile storage that stores the profile;
• a user-specific-information-region securing processor that secures, for the profile in the profile storage, a write-content input region in which a setting value specific to a user can be written concerning content of an item defined in the profile, and a write-permission-flag input region in which a flag indicating whether editing of the setting value for the item is permitted can be set;
• a user-specific-information writing processor that writes, in the write-content input region, the setting value or a range of the setting value of the item indicated by the flag as editable by a user, among the content defined in the profile;
• and
• a user-specific-information saving processor that saves, as a user-defined profile, in the profile storage, the profile including a write content attribute that is the content input to the write-content input region and a flag attribute that is a content of the flag, wherein
• in the user defined profile, the setting value or the range of the setting value concerning the item indicated by the flag as editable is editable,
• when securing the write-content input region and the write-permission-flag input region, the user-specific-information-region securing processor sets, as the flag, a first flag in the write-permission-flag input region when the content defined in the profile is un-editable information and sets, as the flag, a second flag in the write-permission-flag input region when the content defined in the profile is editable information,
• in response to detecting that the flag is set as the second flag and the user is writing the setting value specific to the user in the write-content input region, the user-specific-information writing processor switches the flag from the second flag to a third flag, which indicates that the setting value specific to the user is written, in the write-permission-flag input region corresponding to the write-content input region in which the setting value is written,
• the profile includes an initial value of the item defined in the profile,
• the user-defined profile includes the write content attribute, the flag attribute, and the initial value, and
• when the FA-device-configuration-design supporting apparatus detects a connection to another FA device of a same type as the FA device, the FA-device-configuration-design supporting apparatus uses the saved user-defined profile to set values of the other FA device.