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US 2018/0162652 A1Published application
Integrated Control Systems and Methods
OwnerMark Rolfesinventor
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Abstract
Integrated software systems and methods that can control the design, emulation, testing and production activities of a conveyor based system. In embodiments, the control system implements an object-oriented like environment into a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) system and uses its software to define and control the operation of the PLC dynamically from a computer. In other embodiments, a hot backup method allows the conveyor system to continue to function on failure of one or more PLCs.
Claims4
A control system for a conveyor system, comprising:
- a data store that maintains configuration data that describes a configuration of the conveyor system;
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- a design component configured to enable a user to design a layout and the configuration for the conveyor system, wherein the configuration data includes one or more devices and relationships between the one or more devices.
The control system of claim 3, further comprising:
- a SCADA component configured to transmit the configuration data to one or more PLCs in the conveyor system, and control the conveyor system;
- wherein the one or more PLCs are encoded with the PLC logic of the PLC emulator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.