US 7,890,437 B2Granted

Configuration and method for operating a technical installation

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengsellschaft

InventorsClaus Kühner, Martin Schneider, Lothar Schwab, Bun-Kee Wee

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Abstract

A computer-aided configuration for a technical installation includes a presentation layer with operator control interfaces, an application layer containing all applications, a realtime basic processing layer for providing all applications and operator control interfaces with information and a data manager for creating and maintaining data models for operating and system functions. One such configuration is constructed in such a way that the structure thereof is favorable to extension and offers high availability. The applications in the realtime basic processing layer are respectively combined to form bundles, wherein the same data model is respectively common to the applications of a bundle. The data of a respective application bundle is stored in an application bundle storage unit as shared memory mapped files. A method for operating such a configuration includes storing the data in the realtime basic processing layer in an application bundle storage unit as shared memory mapped files.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer-aided configuration for a technical installation, the configuration comprising:

a presentation layer with operator control interfaces for operation and engineering;
an application layer containing all applications;
an engineering unit having a data manager for creating and maintaining data models for operating and system functions;
a realtime basic processing layer for supplying all of said applications and operator control interfaces with information about the technical installation;
said applications in said realtime basic processing layer being respectively combined to form application bundles, and each of said application bundles having a respective underlying data model;
said application bundles respectively storing data in an application bundle storage device in the form of Shared Memory Mapped Files, on the basis of said underlying data model;
a database having data models, said data models of said application bundles in said realtime basic processing layer being associated with said data models of said database by an association function, and data in said database being transmitted to said respective relevant application bundles in line with said association function;
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a respective auxiliary manager associating said respective data in said database with said respective Shared Memory Mapped Files, and Change Log files assuring an association function between said data models.

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A method for operating a computer-aided configuration, which comprises the following steps:

providing a layer structure for a supply network, having a presentation layer with operator control interfaces for operation and engineering, an application layer containing all applications, a realtime basic processing layer for supplying all applications and operator control interfaces with information about the supply network, and a data manager for creating and maintaining data models for operating and system functions;
storing the data in a respective application bundle, including combined applications with the same data model, in an application bundle storage device in the form of Shared Memory Mapped Files, in the realtime basic processing layer;
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supplying operating data directly to an auxiliary manager of an application bundle storage device in the form of Shared Memory Mapped Files, for storing an application of a respective data model having been respectively combined to form application bundles, while supplying engineering data and engineering change data to the auxiliary manager using preceding Change Log files.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/587,984Filed 21 Apr 2005 · us provisional application
Priority: 27 Apr 2004
Published: US 2007/0250188 A125 Oct 2007
Granted: 15 Feb 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G05B 19/41865
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 19/0426
Using digital processors: programming the control sequence
G05B 2219/24215
Pc safety: scada supervisory control and data acquisition
G05B 2219/32404
Operator till task planning: scada supervisory control and data acquisition