System for simulating automated industrial plants
AssigneesSiemens Aktiengesellschaft, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software (DE) GmbH
InventorsGeorg Piepenbrock, Bernhard Schenk, Thilo Stolper, Sören Zühlsdorf
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Abstract
Automation technology facilities are used for automating industrial processes such as the control of conveyor belts. A high-level control device with a logical model of the plant stored in the control device is disclosed. Simulation models and control programs are generated by the control device. The generated control programs have special data blocks which contain the parameters that are to be optimized by the simulation. The generated simulation models generate the parameters as result values of the simulation evaluation algorithms and supply the values in an automated manner to the special data blocks of the generated control programs.
Claims5
A method for simulating an automated industrial plant, comprising:
- storing a logical model of an automated industrial plant in a control device, wherein all elements of the automated industrial plant are mapped in the logical model via resources, wherein a resource has a plurality of facets which contain information, descriptions and code fragments that are necessary for generating a simulation model and a control program,
- generating a control program based upon the logical model by the control device, wherein the control program includes data blocks which contain parameters that are to be optimized by a simulation,
- generating a simulation model based upon the logical model by the control device, wherein the simulation model includes simulation evaluation algorithms for generating optimized parameters for the control programs,
- optimizing the parameters using the simulation evaluation algorithms, wherein the simulation model stores the optimized parameters,
- transferring automatically the optimized parameters into the data blocks of the control programs.
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