Method for controlling an industrial plant
AssigneeSchneider Electric Industries SAS
InventorUlrich Roesch
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Abstract
A method serves to control an industrial plant comprising a programmable logic controller. In the method, the programmable logic controller establishes a connection with a cloud server, the programmable logic controller executes a software module that causes the creation and/or configuration of a virtual machine on the cloud server, the software module receives and stores an access token, the programmable logic controller uses the access token to access the virtual machine and the programmable logic controller cooperates with the virtual machine to transmit process data to the virtual machine and/or to support the control of the industrial plant.
Claims10
A method for controlling an industrial plant comprising a programmable logic controller, in which
- the programmable logic controller establishes a connection with a cloud server,
- the programmable logic controller executes a software module that causes the creation and/or configuration of a virtual machine on the cloud server,
- the software module receives and stores an access token,
- the programmable logic controller uses the access token to access the virtual machine,
- the programmable logic controller cooperates with the virtual machine to transmit process data to the virtual machine and/or to support the control of the industrial plant,
- wherein the cloud server has a cloud for the virtual machine and a management unit,
- wherein the software module and/or the management unit creates/create the virtual machine on the cloud server, and
- the virtual machine is configured during the creation, wherein the configuration parameters are provided by the programmable logic controller and/or by the management unit.
A system comprising an industrial plant, a programmable logic controller, and a cloud server, wherein
- the programmable logic controller is configured to establish a connection with the cloud server,
- the programmable logic controller is configured to execute a software module that causes the creation and/or configuration of a virtual machine on the cloud server,
- the software module is configured to receive and to store an access token,
- the programmable logic controller is configured to use the access token to access the virtual machine,
- the programmable logic controller is configured to cooperate with the virtual machine in order to transmit process data to the virtual machine and/or to support the control of the industrial plant,
- wherein the cloud server has a cloud for the virtual machine and a management unit,
- wherein the software module and/or the management unit creates/create the virtual machine on the cloud server, and
- the virtual machine is configured during the creation, wherein the configuration parameters are provided by the programmable logic controller and/or by the management unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.