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Workflow centered mechatronic objects

US9317822B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Birthe Böhm · Nuremberg, DE
Norbert Gewald · Regensburg, DE
Thilo Tetzner · Koblenzer Straße, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 6, 2009
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 29, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06Q10/107
WIPO fieldIT methods for management
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for generating workflows for product development or for the design or the operation of industrial systems, wherein the workflow comprises activities, inputs, outputs, attributes, and time dependencies for the activities, wherein the method comprises providing software objects representing parts, functions and/or artifacts of the product or the industrial systems, assembling the software objects by interconnecting them via the interfaces to design a product or an industrial system, generating the workflow for product development or for the design or operation of an industrial system based on the workflow information.

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