Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Benjamin Kohler

Wolfgang Riedl

Hans-Henning Klos

Ralf Gross

Jens Schnittger

Frank Volkmann

Elisabeth Heindl

Vladimir Lavrik

Michael Wieczorek

Christian Strömsdörfer

Gerald Kaefer

Igor Milovanovic

Edgar Frank

Jörg Middel

Sebastian Wittig

Jens Ansgar Rosenberg

A method and an automation component for identifying a process-disrupting automation component in an industrial automation assembly, wherein a process disruption is determined in a first automation component and examined by a first local analysis device, where an automation component arranged upstream and/or an automation component arranged downstream is first determined by each automation component, an interrogation message is sent from a first automation component to a second automation component and the same interrogation message or a further interrogation message is recursively sent by the second automation component to a third automation component arranged upstream or downstream of the second automation component and processed, where in the event of a locally determined disruption, the relevant automation component sends a response message, which is back-propagated to the origin and signaled such that a decentralized error analysis becomes possible, even with a changing system topology, without the need for any redesign work.

Method for identifying a process-disrupting automation component in a concatenated automation assembly

A method for computer-aided processing of state messages in an automation installation, wherein state messages are generated by components and detected with their generation points in time, where causative states present at the generation point of the state message or beforehand in other components are determined for a multiplicity of state messages of a respective component and the current state in the generated state message, where the propagation time between occurrence of the respective causative state and the generation point of the state message is calculated for each causative state, where groups are formed from the causative states, where in a respective group all causative states have at least the common feature that they were determined for the same current state in the respective component, and where at least one statistical parameter is determined from the propagation times which belong to the causative states of the same group and stored.

Method for computer-aided processing of state messages in an automation installation

The disclosure relates to a method for operating an automation system and automation system operating according to the method, wherein an application to be executed on the automation system is available in an encapsulated form in a container. In the event that the application encapsulated in the container requires kernel mode software, a host extender executed on the automation system uses metadata included in the container to load the required kernel mode software from a database having kernel mode software and install the software locally on the automation system. In the event of an identified incompatibility on the automation system, the host extender installs a virtual machine, loads the container, which led to the incompatibility, onto the virtual machine and loads the kernel mode software required by the application contained by the container into the kernel of the virtual machine.

Method for operating an automation system and automation system operating according to the method

The invention relates to an edge device () and to a method for operating an edge device (), wherein the edge device () is supplemented by a unikernel manager () and a base unikernel (), wherein the unikernel manager () acts as a means at least for starting and stopping a unikernel (-) installed on the edge device (), and wherein the base unikernel (), in the form of a standalone unikernel, comprises the base functionality of the edge device ().

Edge device and method for operating an edge device

An electronic display apparatus comprising a control device and an electronic display panel that can be turned off by the control device. In order to support an energy-saving state in which information can continue to be displayed at least to a certain extent, an electrochromic display is additionally provided that is switchable into different display states by the control device. The invention furthermore relates to an installation appertaining to automation technology, and to a method for operating an electronic display apparatus.

Electronic display apparatus, installation pertaining to automation technology, and method for operating an electronic display apparatus

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Nuremberg, Germany

Benjamin Kohler