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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2016
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Jörg Neidig, Nürnberg, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, München, DE;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for the automated determination of an effective area for an emergency stop device(s) in an industrial plant is provided. In modern flexible installations, as will be increasingly found, (such as cyberphysical systems), the layout of the plant will be dynamically changeable. In such an environment, it is often impossible to manually prepare complete safety plan in advance for each potential environment. The proposed methods and apparatuses allow automatic calculations of operational configurations and effective regions of emergency stop devices in an industrial plant, allowing easy positioning of such devices. An improved method for recalculating the effective region after the layout of the plant or portions thereof changed is also provided.