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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2011
Thomas Banik, Erlangen, DE;
Sven Kerschbaum, Erlangen, DE;
Ronald Lange, Fürth, DE;
Thomas Talanis, Heroldsbach, DE;
Frank Volkmann, Nüremberg, DE;
Thomas Banik, Erlangen, DE;
Sven Kerschbaum, Erlangen, DE;
Ronald Lange, Fürth, DE;
Thomas Talanis, Heroldsbach, DE;
Frank Volkmann, Nüremberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengessellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device for planning an industrial automation arrangement, where an object model is generated from data objects, which represent automation components, and from relationships between these objects, a sequence of control actions by a user is used to select the objects from an object library and to relate them to one another. A plurality of sequences of control actions and their respective effects on the object model are stored as respective entity control trees with control steps, where at least two of the entity control trees are selected and used to generate a generalized type control tree using a first comparison, and the type of control tree is used to automatically plan the industrial automation arrangement.