Control system and associated method for startup, control and monitoring of power supply components

A method for startup, control, and monitoring of power supply components of at least one industrial manufacturing system including a programmable logic controller and by which an energy supply of at least one of (i) control units and (ii) computer units of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller is monitored and controlled, the method comprising:

• addressing power supply components of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller, which are connected to a control system via a communication network, via an identification call;
• transmitting back a response message with unique identification data of a respective power supply component by local server units which are permanently arranged within and assigned to respective power supply components of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller;
• generating a client unit externally from the respective power supply components for communication with the local server unit arranged within and assigned to the respective power supply components for each identified power supply component of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller;
• transmitting, by a respective client unit, the unique identification data of the respective power supply components of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller to a central server unit including an assigned database which stores an image of at least one of (i) specific data and (ii) parameters of respective power supply components of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller, said specific data or parameters of the respective power supply components comprising device information, device type, address data, configuration parameters, or device firmware version data, and said image being accessed in an unlimited manner to configure, control, and monitor the at least one industrial manufacturing system;
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• storing the transmitted unique identification data of the respective power supply components of the at least one industrial manufacturing system including the programmable logic controller in the assigned database included in the central server unit;
• wherein in cases of an existing communication link between the respective client unit and local server unit assigned to the respective power supply component and, after appropriate user authentication, at least one of the specific data and parameters of the respective power supply component is output on an input/output unit;
• wherein when a user role is appropriate, at least one of the specific data and parameters of the respective power supply component is changed;
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• wherein at least one of the changed specific data and parameters is forwarded via the central server unit and the respective client unit to the local server unit assigned to the respective power supply component and, after successful forwarding, is stored in the database assigned to the central server unit.