Designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMICHAEL HEGMANN, MICHAEL LEIPOLD, SVEN LUDWIG KELLNER
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Abstract
A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device with a central database provided for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device. Data are stored in the central database as temporal data and can be read and supplemented by the application programs. Configuration rules, dependent on the life cycle phase of the drive device, for an execution and/or an extent of a configuration change to the configuration of the drive device are defined.
Claims14
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A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device, said method comprising:
- storing database data as temporal data in a central database for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device;
- reading and supplementing the database data by the application programs;
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- defining configuration rules, dependent on a life cycle phase of the drive device, for an execution and/or an extent of a configuration change to a configuration of the drive device.
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