Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions Ag

Thyssenkrupp Fordertechnik Gmbh

Thyssenkrupp Robins, Inc.

Norbert Becker

Ronald Lange

Georg Biehler

Dieter Eckardt

Helmut Windl

Ralf Leins

Dirk Langkafel

Matthias Diezel

Karsten Schneider

Albrecht Donner

Harald Herberth

Kurt Tischler

Stefan Smits

Ulrich Welz

Hans-Joachim Beck

Michael Schlemper

Dieter Helmig

Stefan Weigel

Manfred Krämer

Michael Schlereth

Jürgen Laforsch

Joachim Feld

Clemens Dinges

Raffaello Lepratti

Josef Schindler

Torsten Hellmuth

Christiane Gast

Bernd Opgenoorth

Ingemar Neuffer

Christof Brewka

Walter Möller-Nehring

Werner Hoefler

Hans-Ulrich Löffler

Jürgen Schmoll

Josef Ritzer

J&uuml;rgen Schmoll

Peter Brinzer

Juergen Schmoll

Walter Moeller-Nehring

Christian Dirscherl

Manfred Kr&auml;mer

Walter M&ouml;ller-Nehring

Wolf Krieger

Horst Minor

Manfred Kraemer

Peter Sehl

Frank Froessler

Stefan Ritschel

Jan Rougoor

Steffen Weber

Axel Schmuck

Bernhard Zistel

Hans-Ulrich Loeffler

Roland Gebhard

Frank Frössler

A belt-conveying installation has at least one carrying structure, a conveying belt and at least one drive apparatus for driving the conveying belt. The drive apparatus includes at least one drive shaft, at least one drive-shaft-bearing arrangement, at least one drive roller and at least one independently excited drive motor in the form of a frequency-converter-fed alternating-current synchronous motor with a stator and a rotor. The drive shaft and the at least one drive motor are connected to one another without any gearing, and the rotor and drive shaft are arranged coaxially, each drive shaft being guided through at least one rotor. The belt-conveying installation can be operated and used for heavy industry, in particular for the extractive or mining industry.

Belt-conveying installation, method for operating the same, and use thereof

A method and a server for generating a display and operating view for an operating and monitoring device of an industrial automation arrangement, wherein after an event has been logged, information relating to the event and details of the identity or role of a user of the operating and monitoring device are transmitted to an entity, after which planned information relating to at least one component of the industrial automation arrangement affected by the event is retrieved from an engineering database using the event and specifically for the identity or role of the user, current state information is also retrieved from the at least one affected component, and finally the planned information and the state information is used to generate the display and operating view such that, the display and operating images are advantageously set up and activated in an event-controlled manner.

Method and server for generating a display and operating view for an operating and monitoring device of an industrial automation arrangement

The method is used to determine the filling level of a loaded mill container (). The container () has a drive torque (M) applied to it by means of a drive (), and causes it to rotate. The drive torque (M) on the drive () is set by means of a predeterminable drive test sequence. A time/rotation speed profile of a rotation speed of the container () which results from the drive test sequence is recorded, and is analyzed. The filling level is determined on the basis of the results of the analysis. The method produces up to date, accurate information, determined during the milling operation, about the filling level of the container ().

Method for determining a refuse filling level

In a method for detaching a charge () which is stuck to the inner wall of a grinding pipe (), the grinding pipe () is rotated in a targeted manner such that the charge () that is stuck is removed from the inner wall of the grinding pipe () as a result of multiple modification of the rotational speed of the grinding pipe () and, optionally, as a result of abrupt braking of the grinding pipe (). Generally speaking, the material-dependent maximum angle of rotation F of the grinding pipe is not exceeded in order to avoid the charge that is stuck from falling in an uncontrolled manner. The invention supercedes labor-intensive and protracted methods for detaching such charges () since the tasks can be carried out by the same motor of the drive device () which is used to drive the grinding pipe () during the grinding process.

Method and devices for detaching a charge stuck to the inner wall of a grinding pipe

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

Method, control device and drive device for detaching a charge stuck to the inner wall of a grinding pipe

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

A device and a method for identifying parameters of at least one field device used in automation technology are provided. To simplify the assignment of parameters to field devices in automated systems, the behavior of the field device is monitored and operating information that describes the field device behavior is recorded. The operating information is stored in a first memory area, a manufacturer-independent field device model is stored in a second memory area and model parameters belonging to the manufacturer-independent field device model are identified on the basis of the operating information with the aid of a processing unit.

Parameter identification for field devices used in automation technology

An automation system includes at least one automation object, with a directory for storing object names of the at least one automation object. An object name is assigned a directory entry which includes first information data as a reference to the automation object; second information data as a description of technological functionality; and third information data as a description of interfaces of the automation object. This results in immediate and permanent access to currently created (partial) solutions, so that parallel and/or distributed working on automation objects is possible.

Automation system with automation objects with a directory structure and method for the management of automations objects in a directory structure

An automation system with at least one automation object having a first component for generating a system functionality, a second component for generating a base functionality, and a third component for managing at least one module. Each module has a first module component for generating a system functionality, a second module component for generating a base functionality and a third module component for generating a technological functionality.

Automation system with automation objects consisting of module components

The invention relates to a method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data from installations. The engineering and runtime objects are described by a uniform object model. This allows the correspondence between engineering objects and runtime objects to be determined at object level and no information is lost as a result of the mapping. In addition, a direct communication between engineering and runtime objects can take place, which can be utilized when the method is carried out.

Method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data of systems

A method for selecting and/or producing automation hardware which is appropriate or necessary for controlling and/or monitoring a technical process to be automated () according to an automation solution is provided. The method includes developing the description of the automation solution, analyzing this description with an analysis tool () and selecting and, where applicable, producing respective automation hardware on the basis of the analysis of the description.

Method for selecting and/or producing automation hardware

An engineering system () and an associated automation system (), whose components cooperate in accordance with specifications from the engineering system. These systems include a database () and at least one first and one second production module (), which have an input interface () and an output interface (). Each input interface () has a predefined number of inputs () and each output interface () has a predefined number of outputs (). The database () contains a number of data records (), each including at least one data item. Each one of the data records () is associated with a respective input () and a respective output ().

Engineering and automation system

A method for controlling the run-up of a conveyor belt BY increasing a setpoint value of the belt's speed with an increasing acceleration in a first time interval, and with a decreasing acceleration in a second time interval, thereafter plotting a curve of the increasing acceleration against time which has a positive curvature in the second interval, a second time derivative of the acceleration in the first and the second time interval is at least approximately constant and at least approximately equal and opposite.

Method for controlling the run-up of a conveyor belt and drive device for a conveyor belt

The present invention relates to an automation system with at least one automation module (1), which has at least one automation object (A -An), and with function modules (F F ), which contain means for central management and maintenance of the automation objects (A An). As a result, a manufacturer-independent definition of new automation objects, possibly using already existing automation objects, becomes possible, costly separate programming of new automation solutions is no longer necessary at all or is at least significantly simplified.

Automation system with reusable automation objects and method for reusing automation solutions in engineering tools

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Erlangen, Germany

Norbert Becker