Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Hans-Joachim Beck

Norbert Becker

Dieter Helmig

Michael Schlemper

Stefan Weigel

Jürgen Laforsch

Ingo Weber

Josef Ritzer

Axel Schmuck

Peter Hornung

Gabriele Mangler

Bernhard Zistel

The invention relates to a system for generating and displaying messages and/or alarms particularly in an automation system of a plant and/or process. The invention further relates to a corresponding method. Using the system and method, messages and/or alarms can easily be displayed differently depending on the state of a production plant or process.

Dynamic attributing of messages for message escalation

The invention relates to a method, a computer program product and an engineering system for creating a diagnostic model of an automation system made up of various automation components. The diagnostic model is generated automatically during the project planning phase of the automation system. Within the diagnostic model the automation components are represented by model nodes. Functional and/or physical relationships between the automation components are mapped by links between the corresponding model nodes within the diagnostic model. Each model node contains status information in which the status of the associated automation component is stored. By evaluating the status information, the status of the automation system can be investigated and monitored with the aid of the diagnostic model.

Diagnosis of an automation system

The invention relates to a method, an engineering system and a programming device which simplify the projection and/or configuration of a project which represents an automation device for controlling a technical facility. For this purpose, the project engineer simply deposits in a project references that indicate which project components have to be deposited. Copies of said project components are automatically made and are deposited in the project on the programming device. The invention reduces error-proneness and projection complexity.

Method for projecting and/or configuring a project

In order to reduce the data volume in constituting multiple instances from a type, a programming device is provided, having a software tool for processing objects, of which a first object, equipped with data, is provided as model for a second object that has a pointer with which, at the beginning of an access to the second object, the data of the first object can be incorporated into the second object by the software tool.

Programming device

A programming apparatus having an arrangement for formulating an automating task to be performed in the form of a programming language for automating apparatuses is described, which simplifies a process error analysis for an analysis unit. For this purpose, the programming apparatus is provided with an arrangement that store operands ( ), marked to be monitored, in the order in which they appear in the network in a logic list. Furthermore, the programming apparatus has an arrangement that store the operands of this network in an operand list in the order in which they appear in the network. The lists can be transferred into the analysis unit for analysis.

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Rheinstetten, Germany

Hans-Joachim Beck