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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Akira Mitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Nakai, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Ueno, Tokyo, JP;
Tomofumi Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuzuru Tone, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Mitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Nakai, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Ueno, Tokyo, JP;
Tomofumi Ishihara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuzuru Tone, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connection is made to one of a plurality of programmable controllers (hereinafter, 'PLCs') included in a control system in which the plurality of PLCs are connected to one another via one or more networks; the one of the PLCs is specified as an originating PLC; network configuration information of the control system and online connection paths to the PLCs included in the control system are collected; layout relationships among the networks as well as connection relationships of the PLCs and coordinates thereof are calculated based on the network configuration information and the online connection paths; and the results are displayed on a display means as objects.