Method For Interlinking Technical Data And System For Operating And Observing An Industrial Plant

• US 20080133029A1
• Filed: 11/08/2005
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Wellenbrink, Udo, Heimke, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/718,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20080133029A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

In a method for processing process data of a technical plant, documentation data of the process data stored in different data formats are fed to a documentation generator (7), these documentation data are extracted by means of the documentation generator (7) from associated files and/or tools and converted into at least one standardized format and stored, and these documentation data, stored in at least one standardized format, are interlinked with one another on the basis of semantic aspects and their interlinkage is stored and/or output.

Claims

1. A method for processing process data of a technical plant, the method comprising the steps of:

feeding documentation data of the process data stored in different data formats to a documentation generator,

extracting the documentation data by means of the documentation generator (7) from associated files and/or tools, converting and storing the documentation data into at least one standardized format,

interlinking these documentation data, stored in at least one standardized format, with one another on the basis of semantic aspects and storing and/or outputting the interlinkage.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the interlinkage of the data in at least one standardized format is replicated in the form of navigation paths.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the documentation data which are in at least one standardized format and which are interlinked are stored as generated plant documentation on a documentation server.

4. A device for processing process data of a technical plant, comprising:

a documentation generator, to which documentation data of the process data stored in different data formats is fed and which extracts these documentation data from the associated files and/or tools and converts them into at least one standardized format and, on the basis of semantic aspects, interlinks the documentation data converted into a standardized format with one another and stores and outputs their interlinkage.

5. A method of using a device for processing process data of a technical plant according to claim 4 in a system for operating and observing an industrial plant comprising at least one input and output device for acquiring and outputting the process data, at least one automation device for the open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the plant on the basis of the process data, and a documentation server, which are coupled with one another, and wherein at least the documentation server is coupled with the documentation generator and the documentation generators is fed documentation data of the process data stored in different data formats, the method comprising the steps of:

converting the documentation data into a standardized format and interlinking the documentation data with one another on the basis of semantic aspects and transfering these converted and interlinked documentation data to the documentation server by the documentation generator, wherein the converted and interlinked documentation data is stored in the form of plant documentation in the documentation server.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the input and output device has means for activating the automation device, which means can be linked context-sensitively with the corresponding parts of the generated plant documentation stored on the documentation server.

7. A system for processing process data of a technical plant, comprising:

a documentation generator receiving documentation data of the process data stored in different data formats, wherein the documentation generator is operable to extract the documentation data from associated files and/or tools, to convert and to store the documentation data into at least one standardized format, and

means for interlinking the documentation data, stored in at least one standardized format, with one another on the basis of semantic aspects and storing and/or outputting the interlinkage.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the interlinkage of the data in at least one standardized format is replicated in the form of navigation paths.

9. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a documentation server for storing the documentation data which are in at least one standardized format and which are interlinked as generated plant documentation.