Control device for a production module and a method for operating the control device

US10656628B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wendelin Feiten · Neubiberg, DE
• Kai Wurm · Hersbruck, DE
• Vladimir Zahorcak · Svätý Jur, SK

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2015
• Grant date: May 19, 2020
• Expiry date: May 23, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A control device for a production module that has a settings management module for detecting restrictions for operating settings of the production module and for producing corresponding restriction data records is provided. A data memory is provided for the purpose of storing a local restriction table containing a multiplicity of restriction data records. A balancing module is used to iteratively read in first restriction data records in a corresponding restriction table of a first adjacent production module, to iteratively build the local restriction table on the basis of the first restriction data records which have been read in and to iteratively forward second restriction data records in the local restriction table to a second adjacent production module. A control module is also provided for the purpose of setting an operating setting according to a restriction data record which identifies this operating setting.