Control program and method for operating an engineering system for an industrial process automation system

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a control program including at least one section of code which, when loaded into a working memory of a computer executed causes the operation of an engineering system for an industrial process automation system, the control program comprising:

• program code for representing each component of the industrial process automation system by a computer-based object within the engineering system and for continually storing said components in at least one engineering database associated with at least one server of the engineering system;
• program code for managing the objects by the server within a hierarchical object structure, the object structure comprising dependencies between objects;
• program code for making available functions of the engineering system as services by the server via a standard service interface for utilization by clients of different types, the standard service interface being formed via a gateway, which is assigned to the server and via which the services of the engineering system are made available on a client-specific basis;
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• program code for identifying at least one respective client type for client-specific service requests and for forwarding said client-specific service requests to a client-specific service access point of the gateway based on said identified at least one respective client type;
• wherein objects stored in the engineering database comprise operationally utilized production data of a technical system;
• wherein the process sequences and states for at least one of querying and processing objects stored in the engineering database are stored in an order database separate from the engineering database;
• wherein the process sequences and states are represented by order processing objects within the order database and comprise event-driven state transitions in an event of at least one of a query and processing of objects stored in the engineering database;
• wherein objects stored in the engineering database are at least one of queried and processed by an order processing service via the order processing objects stored in the order database;
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• wherein access to process sequences and states stored in the order database occurs via a server-side order interface separate from the standard service interface, when the control program is running on the computer.