System integration in automation engineering
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsNicolai Schoch, Mario Hoernicke, Katharina Stark
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Abstract
A method performed by an integration subsystem for integrating a plurality of automation engineering subsystems into an aggregate system, the method comprising using at least one ontological model to interface a first said automation engineering subsystem with a second said automation engineering subsystem. Interoperability of the subsystems is therefore facilitated.
Claims13
A computer-implemented method performed by an integration subsystem for integrating a plurality of automation engineering subsystems, the plurality of automation engineering subsystems including a first automation engineering subsystem and a second automation engineering subsystem that collectively form an aggregate system, the method comprising:
- achieving a vertical integration and a horizontal integration of the first automation engineering subsystem and the second automation engineering subsystem using at least one ontological model, the at least one ontological model comprising a formal semantic representation of terminologies used by each of the plurality of automation engineering subsystems, wherein each of the plurality of automated engineering subsystems uses a different terminology;
- wherein the horizontal integration uses the at least one ontological model to translate output data obtained from the first said automation engineering subsystem to input data usable by the second automation engineering subsystem;
- wherein each of the subsystems comprises software code created using an object-oriented programming language and each further includes a relational database, and wherein the vertical integration is achieved by a mapping that connects the at least one ontological model, the programming code, and the relational database.
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