Computerised machine control system
AssigneeFerag AG
InventorMichael Schüepp
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Abstract
A computerized machine control system comprises an application-independent machine-specific part with a machine-specific domain model of the machine and a control module, which accesses data points of the machine via a machine-specific communication protocol and updates corresponding data point objects in the machine-specific domain model or data points in the machine. In addition, the machine control system comprises a machine-independent, application-specific part with an application-specific domain model and a mapping module which accesses the machine-specific domain model and maps data objects of the application-specific domain model to data point objects of the machine-specific domain model and vice versa.
Claims18
A computerized machine control system comprising:
- one or more processors programmed with executable instructions to implement at least,
- a communication module for communicating with applications of a higher-level management or operating system;
- an application-independent, machine-specific component comprising a machine-specific domain model with data points of a machine, and a control module which is configured to access the data points of the machine via a machine-specific communication protocol and to update corresponding data point objects in the machine-specific domain model or data points in the machine;
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- a machine-independent, application-specific component comprising an application-specific model with data objects accessible to the management or operating system, and a mapping module configured to access the machine-specific domain model and map data objects to data point objects or map data point objects to data objects.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium with computer program code stored thereon for controlling one or more processors of a machine control system, so that the machine control system
- creates a machine-specific domain model with data points of a machine, domain model which is independent of applications of a higher-level management or operating system, and accesses the data points of the machine via a machine-specific communication protocol, and updates corresponding data point objects in the machine-specific domain model or data points in the machine;
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- creates a machine-independent, application-specific domain model with data objects which are accessible to the management or operating system, and accesses the machine-specific domain model and maps data objects to data point objects or data point objects to data objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.