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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2020
Keyence Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Masashi Kawanaka, Osaka, JP;
KEYENCE CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a mechanism capable of creating, in a simplified manner, a safety program in accordance with a safety use. A program creation assistance device assists in creation of the safety program to be executed by a safety controller. The program creation assistance device selects a safety use of the safety program to be created in accordance with user input, determines, based on the safety use selected, an input block to which a safety input signal from an input device is assigned and a functional block that implements a safety function suitable for the safety use selected, the input block and the function block making up the safety program, provides an unfinished safety program in a programmable manner, the unfinished safety program including the blocks determined, and supplements the unfinished safety program to create the safety program in accordance with user input.