Provision of information in an automation system

• US 20050015398A1
• Filed: 10/21/2002
• Published: 01/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schlereth, Michael, Wagner, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 7,231,398 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

The invention relates to a system and a method for providing information in an automation system, which permits scaled access to said information. The system contains storage means for storing information in the form of an information hierarchy, whereby said storage means form hierarchical tiers and to enhance the information the system comprises first storage means of lower-level hierarchical tiers for the provision of information to second storage means of higher-level hierarchical tiers. The system also contains an engineering system for generating the information from projected information of the automation system and for the automatic projection of the storage means and access means, for accessing the stored information.

Claims

1-14. -14. (cancelled)

15. A system for provision of information in an automation system, comprising:

storage devices for storing information in the form of an Information hierarchy, wherein the storage devices form hierarchy levels and wherein, to enrich the information, first storage devices of subordinate hierarchy levels are provided to supply the information to second storage devices of superordinate storage levels;

an engineering system for generating the information from project planning information of the automation system and for automatic project planning of the storage devices; and

an access mechanism for access to the stored information.

16. A system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the engineering system is provided for generating of contents and a configuration of the project planning from the project planning information, for transmitting the contents and the configuration of the project planning in the syntax of a markup language, for assigning the contents to the hierarchy levels of the storage devices and for storing the contents in the relevant storage devices.

17. A system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the storage devices are embodied as Web Servers installed on processing units, wherein the scaling of the Web servers is provided depending on the power of the relevant Web server and the processing units each comprise one or more Web servers.

18. A system in accordance with claim 16, wherein the storage devices are embodied as Web Servers installed on processing units, wherein the scaling of the Web servers is provided depending on the power of the relevant Web server and the processing units each comprise one or more Web servers.

19. A system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the project planning information comprises system information of the automation system and project data.

20. A system in accordance with claim 16, wherein the project planning information comprises system information of the automation system and project data.

21. A system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the system is provided for automatically assigning information of the information hierarchy to data.

22. A system in accordance with claim 21, wherein the data are messages from a runtime system.

23. A system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the information is stored in XML formats.

24. A system in accordance with claim 15, wherein the engineering system is provided for generating the information from a Manufacturing Execution System and/or an Enterprise Resource Planning System.

25. A method for provision of and access to information in an automation system, comprising:

storing information in the form of an information hierarchy in storage devices, wherein the storage devices forming hierarchy levels and wherein, to enrich the information, a first storage device of subordinate hierarchy levels provides the information to a second storage device of superordinate hierarchy levels;

generating information from project planning information by an engineering system of the automation system;

automatically planning the storage devices by the engineering system; and

accessing to the stored information access by a device.

26. A method in accordance with claim 25, wherein the engineering system

generating contents and a configuration of the project planning from the project planning information;

transferring the contents and the configuration of the project planning in the syntax of a markup language;

assigning the contents to the hierarchy levels of the storage devices; and

storing the contents in the relevant storage devices.

27. A method in accordance with claim 25, wherein the storage devices are embodied as Web servers installed on processing units, wherein the Web server scaling depends on the power of the relevant Web server and the processing units each comprise one or more Web servers.

28. A method in accordance with claim 25, wherein the project planning information comprises system information of the automation system and project data.

29. A method in accordance with one of the claim 25, wherein information of the information hierarchy is automatically assigned to messages from a runtime system.

30. A method in accordance with claim 25, wherein the information is stored in XML.

31. A method in accordance with claim 25, wherein the engineering system generates the information from a Manufacturing Execution System and/or an Enterprise Resource Planning System.

32. A method in accordance with claim 26, wherein the storage devices are embodied as Web servers installed on processing units, wherein the Web server scaling depends on the power of the relevant Web server and the processing units each comprise one or more Web servers.

33. A method in accordance with claim 26, wherein the project planning information comprises system information of the automation system and project data.