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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2012
Applicant:

Abb Ag, Mannheim, DE;

Inventors:

Iiro Harjunkoski, Weinheim, DE;

Margret Bauer, Magdeburg, DE;

Simo Saynevirta, Espoo, FI;

Assignee:

ABB AG, Mannheim, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 11/01 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G05B 11/01 (2013.01); G06F 8/10 (2013.01); G06F 8/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

Exemplary systems and methods are directed to automated performance of a plant process in a control system included in a production management system. The control system including a processor that is configured with integration model code for executing an integration model. The processor is configured to integrate various software systems by establishing a connection to an enterprise resource planning system and exchange information between the plant process and a business process such that production data are received from the processes substantially in real time and an updated status of a production order is received continuously. The integration model includes placeholders associated with variables for at least one of events, devices and plants, placeholders associated with functions to be executed, functionalities which link the variables and call up the functions, mappings of parameters between the software systems to be linked, and requests for loading information from one software system to another.


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