US 8,160,843 B2Granted

Device and method for planning a production unit

AssigneeSiemens Aktiegesellschaft

InventorsReinhold Kröger, Holger Machens

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Abstract

A device for planning a production unit with a production building and a manufacturing facility, wherein the manufacturing facility has machines with equipment for automation systems integrated at least partially in a communication network, wherein the device has a product data management system, in which data relating to the product to be manufactured and further manufacture-related data is stored in a database and with planning tools that are called up from a planning platform which allow at least partially virtual mapping of the product, the production building and the manufacturing facility by accessing the database, a network planning tool for the communication network being integrated in the planning platform, data characterizing the communication network being available based upon the product data management system.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A device for planning a production unit for manufacturing a product, the production unit having a production building and manufacturing facilities, wherein the manufacturing facilities are connected by way of a communication network and are equipped with automation systems, the device comprising:

a product data management system comprising a database in which data relating to the product to be manufactured and further manufacture-related data are stored, the product management system comprising a planning platform comprising planning tools for generating a virtual mapping of the product, the production building and the manufacturing facilities by accessing the database;
a network planning tool integrated in the planning platform for receiving network planning data characterizing the communication network as input, wherein results from the network planning tool comprise end-to-end delay times achieved for specified logical configurations of the automation devices, wherein the results take into account actual influences of the communication network itself in the planning for the production unit;
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a monitoring interface for displaying planning status information in the planning for the production unit.

1 more element

A method for planning a production unit for manufacturing a product, the production unit having a production building and manufacturing facilities, wherein the manufacturing facilities are connected by way of a communication network and are equipped with automation systems, the method comprising:

storing data relating to the product to be manufactured and further manufacture-related data in a database of a product data management system, the product management system comprising a planning platform comprising planning tools;
calling up by the product data management system the planning tools from the planning platform;
generating by the planning tools a virtual mapping of the product, the production building and the manufacturing facilities, wherein each planning tool obtains required product information or unit information from the database of the product data management system;
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planning the communication network of the production unit by receiving network planning data characterizing the communication network as input for a network planning tool integrated in the planning platform, wherein results from the planning of the communication network by the network planning tool comprise end-to-end delay times achieved for specified logical configurations of the automation devices, wherein the results take into account actual influences of the communication network itself in the planning for the production unit;
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displaying planning status information for the production unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/287,206Filed 7 Oct 2008
Priority: EP 0701995011 Oct 2007
Published: US 2009/0112342 A130 Apr 2009
Granted: 17 Apr 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G05B 19/4185
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G05B 19/4188
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
H04L 41/145
Network analysis or design: involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
G05B 2219/31341
From computer integrated manufacturing till monitoring: design of factory information system