Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Uwe Rückl

Thomas Jachmann

Oliver Schrödel

Bernd Hieber

Thomas Woiciechowsky

Fabian Dietrich

The invention is based on the object of specifying a parameterization device which is particularly user-friendly and which makes it possible to parameterize electrical devices with little expenditure of time and therefore in a particularly cost-effective manner. This object is achieved according to the invention by a parameterization device for generating parameterization signals determining device-specific operating parameters for one or more electrical devices of an electrical arrangement, having an input device, to which operating functions desired on the part of the user for the individual devices can be input independently of the device, having a memory device, in which a large number of electrical devices are recorded with their operating functions and their respective device-specific operating parameters, a processing device, which evaluates the operating functions input on the part of the user and reads a list of all those devices which fulfil the operating functions desired on the part of the user from the memory device, an output device, by means of which the list is supplied to the user for the purpose of selecting the device, and a signal generation device, which generates, for each device selected on the part of the user, in each case those parameterization signals which correspond to the operating parameters stored in the memory device.

Parameterization device and method for parameterizing electrical devices

The invention facilitates the creation of a control software for a data processing device of a specific automation system. The method generates a structure representation, describing a specific automation system, from a model structure representation which describes a general automation system. The model structure representation includes a structured representation of functional groups of the general automation system and the interconnections thereof and each functional group can be associated with one or several components of the specific automation system. The method includes the following steps:&#x2014;preparation of a text file, reproducing the model structure representation, for a data processing device which controls the specific automation system,&#x2014;determination of the components of said specific automation system, which can be associated together with a functional group of the model structure representation, by the data processing device and&#x2014;entry of the determined components into the model structure representation with generation of the structure representation, describing the specific automation system.

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Uwe Rückl