Method and process management system for the operation of a technical plant

US7703093B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Detlef Fischer · Zusmarshausen, DE
• Martin Glaser · Bergkamen, DE
• Oliver Kaiser · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Hans-Jürgen Sauer · Herzogenaurach, DE
• Thomas Schoch · Ettlingen, DE
• Rainer Speh · Weiterstadt, DE
• Michael Unkelbach · Buckenhof, DE
• Steffen Wagner · Burbach, DE
• Horst Walz · Neuenbürg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 20, 2010
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2027

Classification

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

Abstract

A method is disclosed for a system including at least one process management computer and a number of field devices, whereby status and control signals are transmitted between at least some of the field devices and the process management computer using a TCP/IP protocol over a communication channel, preferably a radio connection and/or the Internet. A process management system includes a process management computer with a web-server, a client computer with an Internet browser and a number of sensors and actuators. The process management system may preferably be operated by way of the Internet, using the client computer.