Method for Setting an Operating Status
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJorg Neidig, Bernd Opgenoorth, Michael Pirker, Christian Seitz
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Abstract
Operating status transitions of production plants according to the PROFIEnergy standard are increasingly provided for the energy management of an individual component within a plant. The definition of an operating status change for an individual component leaves unsolved the problem as to how an operating status change of a plant having multiple components is to be effected. Thus, methods and systems that support an automatic operating status change of a plant consisting of a multiplicity of components are provided herein.
Claims16
A method for setting an operating status of a plant having multiple components, comprising:
- determining the structural dependency of at least one component of the plant through the analysis of a structural model;
- determining the operating status change behavior of at least one component of the plant through the analysis of an operating status model;
- determining a process-related dependency of at least one component of the plant through the analysis of a process model;
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- determining an overall operating status model of the plant based on the structural and process-related dependencies and the operating status change behavior of at least one component, wherein the overall operating status model prescribes a temporal behavior of at least one component in the case of a change in the operating status of the plant.
A computer program product stored in non-transitory computer-readable media and executable by a processor of a a process planning system to:
- determine the structural dependency of at least one component of the plant through the analysis of a structural model;
- determine the operating status change behavior of at least one component of the plant through the analysis of an operating status model;
- determine a process-related dependency of at least one component of the plant through the analysis of a process model;
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- determine an overall operating status model of the plant based on the structural and process-related dependencies and the operating status change behavior of at least one component, wherein the overall operating status model prescribes a temporal behavior of at least one component in the case of a change in the operating status of the plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.