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US 2024/0103483 A1Published application
Method and systems for validating industrial machine systems
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsULRICH BUNGERT, JÜRGEN GOHLA, DIETER RUPP
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Abstract
A method checks an industrial machine or an automation system by a computer-assisted safety test. At least one control path of the entire industrial machine or of the entire automation system is checked the computer-assisted safety test.
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A method, comprising:
- checking an industrial machine, wherein the industrial machine is embodied as a machine tool, or an automation installation embodied as a manufacturing installation, with a computer-assisted safety test, wherein the computer-assisted safety test comprises an acceptance test;
- checking at least one safety function and/or one safety subfunction with the acceptance test;
- checking at least one control path of the entire machine tool or the entire manufacturing installation with the computer-assisted safety test, wherein the at least one control path of the entire machine tool or the entire manufacturing installation begins with a sensor facility, which comprises an emergency off button or an emergency stop button of the machine tool and/or a safety position switch arranged on a production line, and ends with a reaction component;
- and checking individual physical and/or data engineering interfaces when the at least one control path is checked.
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