Abb Schweiz Ag

Abb Technology Ag

Abb Patent Gmbh

Abb Schwiez Ag

Abb Research Ltd.

Georg Gutermuth

Mario Hoernicke

Christian Messinger

Pablo Rodriguez Carrion

Wolfgang Mahnke

Philipp Vorst

Stefan G Thorburn

Rainer Drath

Daniel Chartouni

Senthil Kumar Sundaram

Narayanan Venkateswaran

Martin Koini

Kai Koenig

Felix Lenders

G&uuml;nther Nagel

Sunderam Sankaran

Rüdiger Franke

Rainer Strube

Bernhard Primas

Andres Leal-Ayala

Kay Wilke

Matthias Biskoping

Volker Jung

Jan-Christian Schäfer

Clemens Grindler

Matthias Schloeder

Marco Lauricella

Eike Fokken

The invention relates to an alkaline electrolyzer arrangement for producing hydrogen gas. The arrangement includes a first alkaline electrolyzer unit and a second alkaline electrolyzer unit, each one of the first and second alkaline electrolyzer units including a first end plate, a second end plate and a plurality of electrolyzer cells forming a cell stack arranged between the first and second end plates. The alkaline electrolyzer arrangement further including a load bearing surface arranged between the first alkaline electrolyzer unit and the second alkaline electrolyzer unit such that the second alkaline electrolyzer unit is arranged vertically above the first alkaline electrolyzer unit and is supported by the load bearing surface.

Alkaline electrolyzer arrangement

An exemplary system and method for displaying technical equipment of an industrial plant includes a graphical display unit and a user interface for receiving image handling parameters. A data storing unit provides data relating to the technical equipment in the form of device data and network data describing a communication network of the industrial plant. The device data describes network devices which are all connected to the communication network and belong to the industrial plant, and the network data describes all the communication connections between the network devices. A data processing unit is arranged for retrieving the provided data, transforming all the device data and all the network data into displayable information, and providing the image representations together with other displayable information to the graphical display unit. The graphical display unit is arranged to display the image representations and other displayable information according to the image handling parameters.

System and method for visualizing technical equipment of an industrial plant

A configuration management device for vendor-independent network device configuration includes a network interface unit for communicating with network devices over a communications network and a data storage unit. The network interface unit can include a unified device network interface and a device-specific driver unit, where the unified device network interface can: retrieve a device profile; to identify a network device which belongs to a network device type corresponding to the device profile; retrieve information on a device-specific configuration protocol to be used during configuration of the network device; and download values for the vendor-independent configuration parameters to the network device.

Configuration management device, configuration interface device and method for vendor-independent network device configuration

A system and method are disclosed for automated handling of at least one working step of a workflow in an automation and/or electrical engineering project via a data input interface, a processing unit and a data output interface connected to the processing unit for transmitting any data read in by the data input interface or generated by the processing unit to at least one of a data repository, another processing unit and/or a display unit. The data input interface can read in input values belonging to the at least one working step of the workflow, and an input uncertainty including a range of input values. The processing unit can generate an output value of the working step from the input value, and calculate an output uncertainty characterizing a range of the output value, by taking into account a parameter and/or a technical condition of the working step.

System and method for automated handling of a workflow in an automation and/or electrical engineering project

A method is disclosed for automatically configuring network devices of a data network having at least two configurable network devices, whose configuration parameters are deployable over the data network to the configurable network devices from an initial configuration state to a desired configuration state. At least one of the configurable network devices is from a first type of network devices, whose configuration requires a pre-defined series of at least one intermediate configuration state. A central deployment network device determines the actual state of each configurable network device for comparing with desired states of the configurable network devices, and in case of a difference, determines a subsequent intermediate and or respective subsequent desired configuration state wherein actual states of the configurable network devices are considered.

Method for automatically deploying a network device configuration

A system and method are disclosed for distributing and exchanging elements for planning and/or operating automation operating equipment, which include at least one interface device, at least one processing device and at least one data store, wherein the interface device effects an integrated connection to at least one engineering tool and/or an integrated link to at least one engineering tool such that functionalities of the at least one interface device and of the at least one processing device can be retrieved from the respective engineering tool and carried out. The respective processing device, the respective interface device, and the respective engineering tool, elements created and/or marked by a first engineering tool can be transferred to the respective processing device and processed and/or can be made available on the at least one data store to be retrieved and/or to be transferred to and/or implemented in at least one second engineering tool.

System and method for distributing and exchanging elements for planning and/or for operating automation operating equipment

A system analyzer and a method for analyzing an impact of a change in a component of a distributed control system (DCS) are disclosed. The system can collect and store data representing the DCS components and their interconnection as well as signals of the DCS components. The DCS can be graphically modeled with nodes and directed edges, wherein a node represents either a type of DCS component or a signal of a DCS components, and wherein an edge is an 'influence'-edge, or a 'contains'-edge. Information on a change of a DCS components is received, a depth first or breadth first search is performed over the &#x201c;influence&#x201d;-edges and &#x201c;contains&#x201d;-edges and determine unchanged DCS components which would be affected by a malfunction, a removal or a taking out of operation of the at least one DCS component, and information on the affected DCS components is transmitted to an operator interface.

System analyzer and method for analyzing an impact of a change in a component of a distributed control system

The invention relates to a device and to a method for handling objects, in particular items of luggage. The device has a supporting arm that is freely moveable in at least two axes and that is articulated on a central unit which is positioned at the end of a conveyor belt for conveying objects. The movement of the supporting arm is controlled in a predeterminable manner and a loading device is configured at the free end of the supporting arm. The loading device has a supporting platform for picking up objects and has a rear and a side boundary against which the object that has been picked up in each case rests. The device includes an unloading device which removes the object that has been picked up from the supporting platform.

Device and method for handling objects, in particular items of luggage

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Heidelberg, Germany

Georg Gutermuth