Automation system and method for operation of the automation system

US10324441B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Dirk Schneider · Lichtentanne, DE
• Tobias Weber · Verl, DE
• Claudia Zschoppe · Chemnitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 2017
• Grant date: Jun 18, 2019
• Expiry date: Dec 12, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2213/0058
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automation system includes a first control facility with a first fieldbus connection, a second control facility with a second fieldbus connection, a fieldbus, a peripheral board with at least one I/O peripheral module, wherein the peripheral board has an interface module with a third fieldbus connection, where the interface module has at least one I/O module which stores interconnection information featuring an assignment of input/outputs of the I/O peripheral module(s) to the control facilities, where the interface module additionally has a virtual I/O module, in which an output region is assigned to the first control facility, and furthermore an input region is assigned to the second controller, and where the virtual I/O module is configured such that the output data is copied from the output region of the first control facility into the input region as input data for the second control facility.