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US 2018/0173183 A1Published application
Process Control System and Plant Planning Tool
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsOliver Drumm, Benjamin Lutz, Gerrit Wolf
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Abstract
A process control system includes an engineering system for planning automation components into the project for a technical plant, a simulation framework for modeling the process behavior of field devices, a simulation unit for virtualizing the communication behavior of the real field devices and also includes a plant planning tool for planning the process engineering components of the plant into the project by which the commissioning of field-related components and a secure commissioning of a process engineering plant are made possible.
Claims6
A process control system comprising:
- an engineering system for planning automation components into a project for a technical plant, the automation components having at least one controller and field devices connected to said at least one controller to which field device addresses are allocated, for creating at least one control program and for loading the control program into the at least one controller;
- a simulation framework for modeling a process behavior of the field devices;
- at least one simulation unit for virtualizing a communication behavior of real field devices and for binding a modeled process behavior to the at least one controller;
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- a plant planning tool for planning process engineering components of the technical plant into the project, a user creating a piping and instrumentation diagram, which comprises symbols for the real field devices, via the plant planning tool;
- wherein the engineering system is configured to transfer field device addresses to the plant planning tool and the plant planning tool is configured to logically link at least one field of the field devices to the at least one simulation unit;
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- wherein the plant planning tool assigns an address of the at least one field device to the at least one simulation unit.
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