Schneider Electric Usa, Inc.

Schneider Automation Gmbh

Torsten Joachim Brune

Kenneth Lee

Richard Blair

Kerry Van De Steeg

Heinz Schaffner

Nitin Dhayagude

Sascha Michael Kreβ

Sascha Michael Kress

Michael Streubel

A modular distributed I/O system for an industrial automation network that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system by maintaining a consistent I/O image representation of the distributed I/O network for various physical distributed I/O configurations, and managing reconfiguration changes using Virtual Placeholder objects.

Virtual placeholder configuration for distributed input/output modules

A modular distributed I/O system for an industrial automation network that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system by maintaining a consistent I/O image representation of the distributed I/O network for various physical distributed I/O configurations and managing reconfiguration changes remotely using Virtual Placeholder objects.

Remote virtual placeholder configuration for distributed input/output modules

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Torsten Joachim Brune