Control method and device, and method for setting up a control system
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengellschaft
InventorsAndreas Franz Czotscher, Helmut Geiger, Stefan Anton Giesel, Thomas Hüller, Jürgen Herbert Mees, Armin Bernhard Rath, Mirko Theodor Roman Römling
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Abstract
A device is used for controlling an installation that is comprised of several units. A common control system, that is provided with a central data memory, in which current real values and/or set points are filed as process variables for several units, is allocated to several of these units. The data memory encompasses a storage area for the process variables. The data structure of this storage area can be configured even by using a set of data that describes the projected installation.
Claims23
A device for controlling a printing press, said printing press having at least one unit embodied as a material feeding device adapted to feed a material to be printed, at least one unit embodied as one of a printing unit and a printing group to print on said material received from said material feeding device and at least one unit embodied for farther processing of said material printed on by said one of said printing unit and said printing group, said device comprising:
- at least one separate control element for each one of said at least one unit embodied as a material feeding device, said one of said printing unit and said printing group and said at least one unit for further processing of said material;
- a common control system assigned to a plurality of said separate control elements of said units, said common control system having a central data memory with an identifier space, in which up-to-date actual values and/or up-to-date command variables are stored in the form of process variables, said central data memory being connected to said plurality of said separate control elements by at least one communications layer embodied as one of ah higher order process unit and a computing unit;
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- wherein said central data memory has a memory area for said process variables, each of said process variables having a data structure that is designed with the use of a data set describing a projected installation for said printing press, and said central data memory is a data server that employs object management in accordance with an object model standard.
A device for controlling a printing press, said printing press having at least one unit embodied as a material feeding device adapted to feed a material to be printed, at least one unit embodied as one of a printing unit and a printing group to print on said material received from said material feeding device and at least one unit embodied for further processing of said material printed on by said one of the said printing unit and said printing group, said device comprising:
- a common control system assigned to several ones of said at least one unit embodied as said material feeding device, said one of said printing unit and said printing group and said at least one unit for further processing of said material, and said control system having a central data memory with an identifier space, in which up-to-date actual values and/or up-to-date command variables are stored in the form of process variables;
- a process unit or a computing unit designed as a communication server to which said central data memory is connected with a signal connection;
- at least one lower-order process unit to which said communication server is connected, each of which is designed to server a network of defined type;
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- at least one control element for one or more of said printing press units to which said at least one lower-order process units is connected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.