System and method for programming an automation system, based on pulse timing diagrams
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsAnnette Eichhorn, Werner Hoffmann, Helmut Kielburger
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system and method for programming an automation system. To avoid conversion errors and to guarantee data during the programming of an automated system, a graphic description by means of pulse timing diagrams is used to generate a program of the automation system, in particular the program of a memory programmable control. Modifications of the pulse timing diagrams thus lead directly to modifications of the program of the memory programmable control, without the need for a renewed conversion that potentially contains errors.
Claims11
A system for programming an automation system, comprising:
- a device adapted for generating graphical pulse timing diagrams for providing timing information for controlling a sequence of machine movements of an automation system;
- a plurality of expansions via data fields having a direct reference to the pulse timing diagrams for providing control information linked to the graphical pulse timing diagrams for controlling the machine movements at desired times during the sequence;
- a data program adapted to operate the automation system, said program being generated from the graphical pulse timing diagrams produced by the device in combination with the expansions;
- an intelligent editor adapted to produce the graphical pulse timing diagrams and the expansions;
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- a zoom-in editor adapted to produce the graphical pulse timing diagrams and the expansions, said expansions being adapted to produce the control information linkable with the pulse timing diagrams.
A method for programming an automation system, comprising:
- generating graphical pulse timing diagrams for providing timing information for controlling a sequence of machine movements of an automation system and expansions assignable to the graphical pulse timing diagrams via data fields for providing control information linked to the graphical pulse timing diagrams for controlling the machine movements at desired times during the sequence;
- generating a data program adapted to operate the automation system from the generated graphical pulse timing diagrams in combination with the expansions for the automation system;
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- producing the graphical pulse timing diagrams and the associated expansions by an intelligent editor in such a way that the expansions are made via a zoom-in editor containing the control information linked to the pulse timing diagrams.
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