System for resource administration in an installation for automation engineering

A system for resource administration in an installation of automation technology, comprising:

• a server platform with a container portion, a management portion and an execution unit,
• wherein the container portion comprises a plurality of logic/application components,
• wherein each logic/application component contains algorithms or instructions for executing functions and wherein a logic/application component requires a minimum computing resource or memory resource to be executable on a device, and wherein the execution unit provides a defined computing resource or memory resource and is designed to instantiate or execute at least one logic/application component;
• at least one field device, which is integrated in a field level of the installation in a first communication network, having at least one sensor unit and/or an actuator unit and an execution unit,
• wherein the sensor unit is designed to capture a physical or chemical measured variable of a process-engineering process,
• wherein the actuator unit is designed to influence a physical or chemical measured variable of a process-engineering process,
• wherein the field device is designed to output as raw data the measured variable captured by the sensor unit and/or a manipulated variable of the actuator unit, and
• wherein the execution unit provides a defined computing resource or memory resource and is designed to instantiate or execute at least one logic/application component;
• an edge device, which is connected to the first communication network and which is directly or indirectly in communication with the server platform using a second communication network,
• having a communication unit and an execution unit, wherein the communication unit is designed to exchange data between the edge device, the field device and the server platform,
• wherein the execution unit provides a defined computing resource or memory resource and is designed to instantiate or execute at least one logic/application component, and
• wherein the management portion of the server platform is designed, after selection by an operator, to assign one of the logic/application components to the field device, the edge device or the server platform, according to the minimum computing resource or memory resource required, and to load them onto this or these and to instruct them to instantiate the logic/application component.