US 2019/0196737 A1 · METHOD FOR EXCHANGING DATA BETWEEN ENGINEERING TOOLS OF AN ENGINEERING SYSTEM, AND ENGINEERING SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for the exchange of engineering data (RED) between independent engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx) of an engineering system (ESY) and to an engineering system, wherein engineering data (ET1PD . . . ETxPD) of each of the engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx), which is associated with a project such as a production system, a switching system or a robot cell, is stored in a tool-specific data format in a data memory (SR, SPA/IR) associated with the engineering tool, and wherein user-selected engineering data (ET1D . . . ETxD) of the engineering tools, which is associated with a system function (SF1 . . . SFn) such as a project management function, a topology management function, a variable exchange function or a diagnosis function and which is of interest for at least an additional one of the engineering tools, is converted by means of a converting unit (ETC1 . . . ETCx) into a standardized data format and is stored in a standardized common data memory (CC). In order to optimize the exchange of engineering data at engineering time and in order to achieve minimal redundancy without change of the existing data models of the engineering tools, it is provided that changes of the selected engineering data (ET1D . . . ETxD) of the individual engineering tools (ET1D . . . ETxD), which is associated with a system function (SF1 . . . SFn), are continuously cached in the standardized common data memory (CC) and are read as needed at any time by one of the engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx), and that, for a temporary access to all the engineering data (ET1PD . . . ET1XPD) associated with the project by a requesting engineering tool, a start of the providing engineering tool is carried out.

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A method for the exchange of engineering data (RED) between independent engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx) of an engineering system (ESY), wherein engineering data (ET1PD . . . ETxPD) of each of the engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx), which is associated with a project such as a production system, a switching system or a robot cell, is stored in a tool-specific data format in a data memory (SR, SPM R) associated with the engineering tool, and

wherein user-selected engineering data (ET1D . . . ETxD) of the engineering tools, which is associated with a system function (SF1 . . . SFn) such as a project management function, a topology management function, a variable exchange function or a diagnosis function and which is of interest for at least an additional one of the engineering tools, is converted by means of a converting unit (ETC1 . . . ETCx) into a standardized data format and is stored in a standardized common data memory (CC), wherein changes of the selected engineering data (ET1D . . . ETxD) of the individual engineering tools (ET1D . . . ETxD), which is associated with a system function (SF1 . . . SFn), are continuously cached in the standardized common data memory (CC) and are read as needed at any time by one of the engineering tools ETx),
characterized in that
the engineering data relating to a project and/or the data of an engineering tool relating to a system function, after separation of the engineering tool, is stored in the common data memory (CC;
SR), and in that, for temporary access to all the project-associated engineering data (ET1PD . . . ET1XPD) by a requesting engineering tool, a start of the separated engineering tools providing the data or a start of the data server providing the data is carried out.

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An engineering system (ESY) for the exchange of engineering data (RED) between independent engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx) of the engineering system (ESY),

wherein engineering data (ET1PD . . . ETxPD) of each of the engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx), which is associated with a project such as a production system, a switching system or a robot cell, is stored in a tool-specific data format in a data memory (SR, SPMR) associated with the engineering tool, and
wherein user-selected engineering data (ET1D . . . ETxD) of the engineering tools, which is associated with a system function (SF1 . . . SFn) such as a project management function, a topology management function, a variable exchange function or a diagnosis function and which is of interest for at least an additional one of the engineering tools, is converted by means of a converting unit (ETC1 . . . ETCx) into a standardized data format and is stored in a standardized common data memory (CC), wherein the system functions (SF1 . . . SFn) are designed as domain services (DS1 . . . DSn) with a common standardized data model (CM1 . . . CMn), wherein changes of the selected engineering data (ET1D . . . ETxD) of the individual engineering tools (ET1D . . . ETxD), which is associated with a system function (SF1 . . . SFn), are continuously cached by means of the domain services in the standardized common data memory (CC) and can be read as needed at any time by one of the engineering tools (ET1 . . . ETx),
characterized in that
the engineering data relating to a project and/or the data of an engineering tool relating to a system function, after separation of the engineering tool, is stored in the common data memory (CC;
SR), and in that, for a temporary access to all the engineering data (ET1PD . . . ET1XPD) associated with the project by a requesting engineering tool, a start of the separated engineering tool providing the data or of the data service providing the data is carried out by means of a start mechanism.

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Method for exchanging data between engineering tools of an engineering system, and engineering system for carrying out the method

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Method for exchanging data between engineering tools of an engineering system, and engineering system for carrying out the method

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