Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Roland Melzer

Peter Wiedenberg

Michael Peter

The inventive method interacts with a project planning window, which has a working area at least with one window for a project planning level for displaying and linking graphic objects and with a window for a symbol library containing the graphic objects available for a project planning. To this end, graphic control objects are provided, which represent technical objects of the installation and graphic control unit objects, which represent control units that can be used for a control. In a first step, the control objects of a project planning are activated in the window for the system library and transmitted into the project planning level. In a second step, the transmitted control objects are, in the window of the project planning level, subsequently linked in a logical manner according to a control task. In a third step, at least one control unit object is activated in the symbol library and transmitted into the project planning level. In a fourth step, the graphic control unit object is assigned to selected graphic control objects. The invention offers the advantage of enabling, in a closed project planning method, both the graphic control objects, which are required for controlling installation resources, as well as control unit objects, which are required for operating and monitoring the control, to be linked in a defined and logical manner.

Method for the graphic planning of the control of a technical installation with integrated planning of operating devices including a planning system and a computer program product

A control of a window-based interactive user interface () includes at least two overlapping display and control windows (). When one display and control window () is activated, the other display and control window () is automatically reduced in size to such an extent that it is represented in its entirety on the interactive user interface () without overlapping the display and control window (). The activation of the display and control window () is preferably triggered by an optical cursor ().

Method for controlling a window-based user interface and an HMI device for carrying out said method

A human machine interface (HMI) device () that detects () fault events (y, z) of the technical facility (), that generates () technical operating actions (A . . . D), that automatically attributes () generated technical operating actions (B . . . B+m, C . . . C+n) to the fault events (y, z) associated therewith, and that automatically stores the operating actions with the attributions. In a further embodiment, the HMI device also compares current generated operating actions to stored operating actions and generates a query () for enabling the automatic execution of stored technical operating actions in the event of detection of the attributed fault event, if the generated operating actions and the current fault event correspond thereto.

HMI DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A TECHNICAL FACILITY, AUTOMATION SYSTEM HAVING HMI DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT HAVING PROGRAM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD IN AN HMI DEVICE OR AUTOMATION SYSTEM

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Roland Melzer