Apparatus for operating a technical device, data processing device and computer program

• US 20030065732A1
• Filed: 09/12/2002
• Published: 04/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Herrmann, Wolfgang, Gortler, Georg, Welsing, Stephan, Hofmann, Detlef
• Application Number:
  US10/241,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20030065732A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/208
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23318 Mode, two mode, directly from console or download from host

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus for operating a technical device, having an operating sequence module and at least one further module with which the operating sequence module communicates. The operating sequence module automatically adapts an execution of an operating control sequence or individual steps to be carried out in order to execute the operating control mode automatically, on the basis of data stored in the further module. The invention also relates to a technical device which has the apparatus, a data processing device by means of which the apparatus can be implemented, and a computer program which implements the apparatus.

Claims

1. An apparatus for operating a technical device, having an operating sequence module and at least one further module, the operating sequence module being constructed in such a way that

it communicates with the further module,

an operating control mode can be selected from a list of operating control modes made available by the operating sequence module,

on the basis of the selected operating control mode it is possible to initiate execution of a sequence of the selected operating control mode or individual steps which are to be carried out in order to execute the selected operating control mode can be displayed, and

it automatically adapts the sequence or the steps to be carried out on the basis of data stored in the further module.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, in which the operating control mode is an initial activation, maintenance and/or adjustment of the technical device.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 or 2, in which the further module is a configuration module which is embodied in such a way that it makes available data relating to the configuration of the technical device, a user module which is embodied in such way that it makes available data relating to a user of the apparatus, or a state monitoring module which is constructed in such a way that it senses and makes available data relating to a technical state of the technical device at a particular time.

4. The apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 3, in which the operating control mode of the technical device is troubleshooting and the list of operating control modes is a list of fault descriptions.

5. The apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 4, in which the operating sequence module is additionally constructed in such a way that during the sequence of the selected operating control mode it is possible to display instructions to a person carrying out the operating control mode, the displayed instructions being automatically adapted on the basis of the data of the further module.

6. The apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 5, which additionally comprises a result module which is constructed in such a way that data which is determined during the execution of the operating control mode can be stored by means of the result module, and in which the result module and the operating sequence module are constructed in such a way that they communicate with one another.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6, which has a report module which is constructed in such a way that a selection of the data of the result module can be displayed on the basis of data stored in the user module.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6 or 7, in which the data which is determined and stored in the result module can be transferred over a data transmission network.

9. The apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 8, in which the data is XML (extended markup language) data.

10. A technical device which has an apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 9.

11. The technical device as claimed in claim 10 which has a medical device.

12. A data processing device by means of which an apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 9 can be implemented.

13. A computer program which implements an apparatus as claimed in one of claims 1 to 9.