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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2004
Reiner Griessbaum, Ruelzheim, DE;
Reiner Griessbaum, Ruelzheim, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and an engineering system, which reduce the extent of configuration work with regard to a possible expansion of the automation device. A configured automation device can thus be expanded during the control of the automation device by means of slave modules. During a configuration phase, the number of the slave units () and a user data area for each slave unit can be configured. For each slave module of a slave unit, a portion of the user data area can be assigned. The user data area is prepared for a possible expansion of the slave unit by at least one slave module in that, in addition to the configured user data area of a respective slave unit required for the current control, a reserve user data area () is configured for the at least one slave module.