Method and system for managing alarms in modular production installations

US12117822B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Tim Schenk · Landshut, DE
• Andrés Botero Halblaub · Kirchseeon, DE
• Andreas Stutz · Aathal, CH
• Mathias Maurmaier · Gerlingen, DE
• Till Heinzerling · Schloss Stutensee, DE
• Christoph Wincheringer · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 11, 2022
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2024
• Expiry date: May 11, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2223/04
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

To automate alarm management in modular production installations, provided is, with respect to a modular production installation, for which, for its modular, manufacturer-independent construction and operation, “process equipment assembly” modules, controlled by a programmable PEA controller and simulated by means of a configurable PEA simulation, are integrated into the production installation, by means of a “module type package <MTP>” mechanism for the PEA module description, in the course of a process orchestration which is standardized the following is carried out in the alarm management: —all states of the modular production installation with respect to triggered faults of possible fault cases of the production installation are virtually run through and simulated; —simulation faults that occur are logged concomitantly by means of alarms, which provide identification and an alarm message log is created and/or alarm chains are identified and alarm relationships in the alarm chains are determined.