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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2020
Schneider Electric Industries Sas, Rueil Malmaison, FR;
Pascal Hampikian, Paris, FR;
Schneider Electric Industries SAS, Rueil Malmaison, FR;
Abstract
A method for configuring peer-to-peer communication in an industrial automation system including at least two control devices, each control device being arranged for hosting as separate instances an OPC UA server, an OPC UA subscriber service, and an OPC UA publisher service, the method including retrieving an OPC UA object list for each control device, the object list indicating all OPC UA objects managed by each respective control device, and presenting the OPC UA objects and control devices for user input. The method further including obtaining user input, configuring for each control device publisher and subscriber service parameters in a configuration file for each respective control device, and transferring the configuration file to the publisher and subscriber services of each respective control device. Also disclosed are an industrial automation system and industrial control devices configured to implement the disclosed method.