Engineering tool and programmable logic controller
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorShuichi TANAKA
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Abstract
An engineering tool includes a program editing unit that designates a device by selecting a label allocated to the device and edits a sequence program and a label setting management unit that manages the setting of the label. The label setting management unit includes an individual processing setting unit that is capable of setting individual processing to be performed by the device designated by the label. It does this by associating a function corresponding to the individual processing with the label.
Claims6
An engineering tool, comprising:
- a program editing unit
- designating a device by selecting a label allocated to the device and
- editing a sequence program;
- and
- a label setting management unit that manages a setting of the label, wherein
- the label setting management unit comprises
- an individual processing setting unit that is capable of setting, by associating a function corresponding to the individual processing with the label, individual processing on the device designated by the label,
- the individual processing setting unit allows a label editor that displays the setting of the label managed by the label setting management unit to receive setting for the individual processing, and
- the program editing unit converts the function associated with the label by the individual processing setting unit into a program and incorporates the program that is converted into the sequence program.
A programmable logic controller comprising a program execution unit that executes a sequence program, the programmable logic controller performing control corresponding to the sequence program, wherein
- the sequence program is edited after a device is designated by selecting a label allocated to the device in an engineering tool,
- a setting of the label is managed in the engineering tool and individual processing on the device designated by the label is set in the engineering tool by associating a function corresponding to the individual processing with the label,
- the function associated with the label is converted to a program and then incorporated into the sequence program, and
- the program execution unit performs, by executing the sequence program, the individual processing corresponding to the function associated with the label.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.