Project navigator for a hierarchical display of technological objects, storage medium and engineering system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJohannes Birzer, Markus Fister, Raimund Kram
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Abstract
A project navigator for displaying technological objects hierarchically on a display device, in particular on a computer, is provided. The technological objects are mutually interconnected and model a machine with cascaded synchronous control. The technological objects are selected by a user input facility. For a selected technological object, an associated input and/or output side connection tree for the technological object is then displayed together with further technological objects.
Claims7
A project navigator for a hierarchical display of technological objects on a display device of a computer,
- wherein the technological objects are mutually interconnected and model a machine with a cascaded synchronous control,
- wherein each of the technological objects is selected by a user input facility,
- wherein, in a same hierarchical view, an input side connection tree and an output side connection tree associated with a selected technological object are displayed together with further technological objects on the display device together with all further sub-trees for both real and virtual axles such that a flow of movement signals of a model of the machine is displayed,
- wherein a relevant effective connection is visually highlighted in the project navigator in an online mode of the machine, and
- wherein a further navigation possibility permits navigation through a hierarchical cascaded structure based on the flow of movement signals of the model of the machine.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing in a machine-readable form a project navigator for a hierarchical display of technological objects on a display device of a computer,
- wherein the technological objects are mutually interconnected and model a machine with a cascaded synchronous control,
- wherein each of the technological objects is selected by a user input facility,
- wherein, in a same hierarchical view, an input side connection tree and an output side connection tree associated with a selected technological object are displayed together with further technological objects together with all further sub-trees for both real and virtual axles on the display device such that a flow of movement signals of a model of the machine is displayed,
- wherein a relevant effective connection is visually highlighted in the project navigator in an online mode of the machine, and
- wherein a further navigation possibility permits navigation through a hierarchical cascaded structure based on the flow of movement signals of the model of the machine.
An engineering system for configuring at least a part of a machine or a plant with a cascaded synchronous control system, comprising:
- a display device associated with a computer;
- user input facilities;
- and
- a processor for executing a project navigator for displaying technological objects hierarchically on the display device,
- wherein the technological objects are mutually interconnected and model a machine with a cascaded synchronous control,
- wherein each of the technological objects is selected by a user input facility,
- wherein in a same hierarchical view, an input side connection tree and an output side connection tree associated with a selected technological object are displayed together with further technological objects for both real and virtual axles,
- wherein a relevant effective connection is visually highlighted in the protect navigator in an online mode of the machine, and
- wherein a further navigation possibility permits navigation through a hierarchical cascaded structure based on the flow of movement signals of the model of the machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.