System and method for configuring and parametrizing a machine used in automation technology

US7596417B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Markus Fister · Erlangen, DE
• Raimund Kram · Erlangen, DE
• Volker Wolff · Amberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 2005
• Grant date: Sep 29, 2009
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2025

Classification

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

Abstract

An aim of a system and method for configuring and parametrizing a machine used in automation technology is to simplify configuration of an automation process. Said aim is achieved by graphically representing the different technological components as model components. The respective mechatronic signal flow between the technological objects can be defined on a graphic level by means of connections to which the inputs and the outputs of the technological objects can e joined. Such a graphic mechatronic model substantially facilitates projection of an automation process.