Method for Operating an Automation Device

• US 20130318033A1
• Filed: 05/23/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Rudolf Pohlan
• Inventors: POHLAN, Rudolf
• Application Number:
  US13/901,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318033A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/602
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/056 Programming the PLC
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/13106 Natural language, use simple words like move, rotate,
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23014 Conversion of ASCII scripting language to machine code
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23272 Natural language, use simple words like move, rotate
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23275 Use of parser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/254 Extract, transform and load [ETL] procedures, e.g. ETL data flows in data warehouses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

A method for operating an automation device, into the memory of which an automation solution has been loaded, wherein a technology-oriented control interpreter accesses a data warehouse of the automation solution, and is able to control external commands by virtue of such commands being analyzed and being implemented according to the analysis, where the technology-oriented control interpreter extracts at least one entity designation and at least one instruction from a respective command, the technology-oriented control interpreter searches for an object matching the entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution and, in the event of success, checks whether the instruction contained in the command has been defined for the found object, and where the technology-oriented control interpreter causes execution of the instruction for the found object.

Claims

1. A method for operating an automation device having a memory, comprising:

loading an automation solution into the memory;

accessing a data warehouse of the automation solution by a technology-oriented control interpreter;

analyzing, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, external commands and implementing said external commands according to said analysis to control the external commands;

extracting, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, at least one entity designation and at least one instruction from a respective external command;

searching, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, for an object matching the at least one entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution;

checking whether the instruction contained in the command has been defined for the located object in an event of successfully locating the object matching the at least one entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution; and

executing, via the technology-oriented control interpreter, the instruction for the located object.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data warehouse of the automation solution is organized in a tree-like manner in a project tree having a plurality of objects, and wherein an entity name path is stated as an entity designation within a scope of the external command addressed to the technology-oriented control interpreter.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein individual objects of the project tree respectively define or reference at least one action as a basis for instructions which are transmittable with the external command.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein an action associated with an object of the project tree comprises at least one security query.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein an action associated with an object of the project tree comprises at least one query for access protection.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein an action associated with an object of the project tree comprises at least one query for access protection.

7. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein execution of a plurality of actions specified according to an instruction transmitted with a command is centrally synchronized.

8. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein execution of a plurality of actions specified according to an instruction transmitted with a command is centrally synchronized.

9. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein execution of a plurality of actions specified according to an instruction transmitted with a command is centrally synchronized.

10. A computer program having program code means for performing the steps of the method of claim 1 when the computer program is executed on an automation device for at least one of controlling and monitoring an installation.

13. An automation device comprising:

a processing unit; and

a memory into which a computer program as claimed in claim 10 has been loaded, the computer program being executed by the processing unit during operation of the automation device.

14. An automation device comprising:

a processing unit; and

a memory into which a computer program as claimed in claim 10 has been loaded, the computer program being executed by the processing unit during operation of the automation device.

11. A process in which an automation device having a memory, into which an automation solution is pre-loaded, executes instructions set forth in a computer program which serves as a technology-oriented control interpreter, said computer program executing in a processing unit which, when used on the automation device, causes the processing unit to operate the automation device, the computer code comprising:

program code for accessing a data warehouse of the automation solution by a technology-oriented control interpreter;

program code for analyzing, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, external commands and implementing said external commands according to said analysis to control the external commands;

program code for extracting, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, at least one entity designation and at least one instruction from a respective external command;

program code for searching, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, for an object matching the at least one entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution;

program code for checking whether the instruction contained in the command has been defined for the located object in an event of successfully locating the object matching the at least one entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution; and

program code for executing, via the technology-oriented control interpreter, the instruction for the located object.

12. A non-transitory computer program product having program code means which are stored on a non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium and executed on an automation device for at least one of controlling and/or monitoring an installation, the computer program comprising:

program code for accessing a data warehouse of the automation solution by a technology-oriented control interpreter;

program code for analyzing, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, external commands and implementing said external commands according to said analysis to control the external commands;

program code for extracting, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, at least one entity designation and at least one instruction from a respective external command;

program code for searching, by the technology-oriented control interpreter, for an object matching the at least one entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution;

program code for checking whether the instruction contained in the command has been defined for the located object in an event of successfully locating the object matching the at least one entity designation in the data warehouse of the automation solution; and

program code for executing, via the technology-oriented control interpreter, the instruction for the located object.