Designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMichael Hegmann, Michael Leipold, Sven Ludwig Kellner
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Abstract
A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device with a central database provided for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device. Data are stored in the central database as temporal data and can be read and supplemented by the application programs. Configuration rules, dependent on the life cycle phase of the drive device, for an execution and/or an extent of a configuration change to the configuration of the drive device are defined.
Claims14
A method for designing, configuring, operating and maintaining a drive device, said method comprising:
- acquiring, with a measuring device, measured data describing operation and operating conditions of the drive device;
- generating with a first application program, data describing designing of the drive device;
- generating with a second application program, data describing configuring of the drive device:
- generating with a third application program, data describing maintaining of the drive device;
- supplying the measured data to a fourth application program;
- generating with the fourth application program data describing operation and operating conditions of the drive device by processing the measured data:
- storing database data, as temporal data, the data generated by the first, second, third, and fourth application programs in a chronological sequence in a central database;
- reading and supplementing the central database data by the first second third, and fourth application programs;
- defining configuration rules, dependent on a life cycle phase of the drive device, for a configuration change to a configuration of the drive device;
- defining typical configuration changes to the configuration of the drive device;
- changing a configuration of the drive device according to at least one of the configuration rules;
- monitoring whether the at least one of the configuration rules are complied with on the configuration change to the configuration of the drive device;
- monitoring whether the configuration change to the configuration of the drive device is a typical configuration change;
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- generating a warning when the configuration rules are not complied with or the configuration change to the configuration of the drive device is not a typical configuration change indicating a potential misconfiguration and enabling the potential misconfiguration to be prevented.
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