Optimizing availability and safety by reconfiguring and auto-adjusting redundancy
US7657814B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 23, 2006 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B9/03
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides industrial automation systems and/or methods that configure available redundancy. An interface component can obtain input data. Additionally, an optimization component can generate a voting configuration that allocates available redundancy to provide an optimized combination of safety and availability based at least in part on the input data.
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