Method for configuring an industrial automation component, industrial automation component, computer program and computer readable medium
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorHolger Strobel
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Abstract
An industrial automation component, a computer program and a computer-readable medium and method for configuring an industrial automation component, wherein at least one feature of the industrial automation component that is not configurable with an engineering system supporting the component, non-supported feature, is configured by interpreting a description of a configuration of the at least one non-supported feature with an on-board compiler of the component and integrating the interpreted description to a basic configuration having been generated with the engineering system and with respect to at least one further feature, supported feature, of the component.
Claims18
A method for configuring an industrial automation component, the method comprising:
- interpreting a description of a configuration of at least one non-supported feature with an on-board compiler of the industrial automation component to obtain a machine-readable binary version of the description, said on-board compiler validating the machine-readable binary version of the description to configure the at least one non-supported feature of the industrial automation component which is not configurable with an engineering system supporting the industrial automation component;
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- integrating the machine-readable binary version of the description with a basic configuration which was generated with the engineering system with respect to at least one further supported feature of the industrial automation component to obtain a complete configuration including the at least one further supported feature and the at least one non-supported feature;
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- writing the complete configuration to memory of the industrial automation component.
An industrial automation component comprising:
- a processor having memory;
- and
- a compiler;
- wherein the compiler is configured to:
- interpret a description of a configuration of at least one non-supported feature to obtain a machine-readable binary version of the description and validate the machine-readable binary version of the description to configure the at least one non-supported feature of the industrial automation component which is not configurable with an engineering system supporting the industrial automation component;
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- integrate the machine-readable binary version of the description with a basic configuration which was generated with the engineering system with respect to at least one further supported feature of the industrial automation component to obtain a complete configuration including the at least one further supported feature and the at least one non-supported feature;
- wherein the complete configuration is written to the memory of the industrial automation component.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed on at least one computer or on an industrial automation component, cause the at least one computer or the industrial automation component to configure the industrial automation component, the instructions comprising:
- program code for interpreting a description of a configuration of at least one non-supported feature with an on-board compiler of the industrial automation component to obtain a machine-readable binary version of the description, said on-board compiler validating the machine-readable binary version of the description to configure the at least one non-supported feature of the industrial automation component which is not configurable with an engineering system supporting the industrial automation component;
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- program code for integrating the machine-readable binary version of the description with a basic configuration which was generated with the engineering system with respect to at least one further supported feature of the industrial automation component to obtain a complete configuration including the at least one further supported feature and the at least one non-supported feature;
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- program code for writing the complete configuration to memory of the industrial automation component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.