Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Aktiengesell Schaft

Siemens Akteingesellschaft

Thomas Menzel

Stefan Dolansky

Wolfgang Papiernik

Lars Jahn

Gernot Rossi

Klaus Merkl

Michael Thomas

Sabine Ziegler

Stefan Dohle

An engineering system for planning an automation system and method for planning the automation system, wherein a cloud environment and/or an edge device are integrated into a project structure of a planning environment, where the project structure includes components and has at least one hardware component that has project elements, where the integrating includes saving and displaying the cloud environment or the edge device, in a manner structured as a component, accordance to a technological hierarchy, and wherein project elements associated with the cloud environment and/or with the edge device are defined, where at least one program block and a device configuration are stipulated for the cloud environment or the edge device, and where the hardware component and the cloud environment and/or the edge device are via the planning to perform an automation task of the automation system that must partially be performed in the cloud environment and/or edge device.

Engineering system and method for planning an automation system

Method and an arrangement for monitoring status of a production device configured to implement an industrial process or industrial production with a control device with sensors and actuators, where at least one further sensor is carried through the production device with a product being processed by the production device, where further signals are wirelessly transmitted to a status-monitoring device by the further sensor, and where the signals and/or status information items and the further signals are placeable in relationship with one another to generate status information item about the production device such that it is possible to plan the status monitoring separately from the production device, and possible to combine information items of the industrial control device with the information items and data of a mobile sensor (further sensor) that passes through the production device, such that more precise status information items about the production device status can be acquired.

Method and arrangement for monitoring the status of a production device

Methods for creating a configuration for setting up a configuration-specific web-based application at least in a Cloud environment, wherein the configuration-specific web-based application processes data from a control unit of an automation system depending on the configuration in a Cloud environment.

Method for creating a configuration for setting up a configuration-specific web-based application and generating the configuration-specific web-based application

A method and field device for monitoring automation technology is disclosed The automation field device has internal sensor apparatus that detects states that the field device is subjected as a whole, connections feeding sensor signals to the field device from external sensor apparatus, a channel to a serial field bus, and a further channel. The field device has a processor and a program stored in a memory. The processor receives signals through the field bus from the internal sensor apparatus and/or through connections to the external sensor apparatus and/or the channel to the field bus. The processor determines an evaluation result using the received signals and uses the further channel to transmit the evaluation result to a higher-order apparatus, using the program. Alternatively, the processor decides in advance whether transmission of the evaluation result is required, using the evaluation result.

Independent automation technology field device for remote monitoring

There is described an efficient and simple method of billing a client for using a computerized numerical control machine. The invoice amount to be billed is based on at least one trajectory of at least one axis during operation, on a volume of a stock removed from a work piece during operation, and on a processing time information related to working on the work piece. One concept of the method therefore is a pay-per-use concept relating the added value created by the computerized numerical control machine to the invoice amount.

Method of billing a client for using a computerized numerical control machine

The invention relates to a control device (), controlling a machine tool (), which processes a step sequence (S-S), by a wireless reading of a partial program () from a workpiece data support (), provided for a workpiece () and processing the workpiece (), following the downloaded partial program ().

Operating method and apparatus for controlling a machine tool

A test device and a test method for testing a machine tool or production machine are disclosed. A control and monitoring unit processes at least one predefined instruction sequence and generates control commands for operating the machine controller in order to test the machine. The control commands are transmitted to the machine controller, where they are executed. The instruction sequence also includes control instructions. This results in a relatively simple test device and method for automatically and reproducibly testing a machine tool or production machine.

Device and method for testing machine tools and production machines

An apparatus and method for simulating the behavior of the drive system and the mechanism of machine tool or production-line machine by use of mathematical models of the drives and the mechanisms of the driven mechanical elements of the machine are disclosed. Preferably actual values for regulated and unregulated axes are calculated at the same time using NC- and PLC-models, respectively by an auxiliary computer using desired values provided by a digital controller. The actual values are then supplied to a mechanism model, preferably a geometric kinematic model, which produces a state signal that is fed back to the digital controller, preferably in real time. The result is an efficient, easy and cost-effective simulation that closely approximates reality and can be provided in real-time.

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Thomas Menzel