Method for monitoring or installing new program codes in an industrial installation

• US 7,318,227 B1
• Filed: 07/03/2000
• Issued: 01/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Hohne, Joachim, Heimke, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): An; Meng-Al T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kang; Insun
• Application Number:
  US10/019,719
• Time in Patent Office: 2,745 Days
• Field of Search: 709/208, 709/225, 709/250, 717/127, 717/171, 717174-178, 712/29, 700/174, 700/9, 700/104, 700/108, 700/110, 370/316
• US Class Current: 717/174
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0426 Programming the control sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23297 Remote load of program with cellular, wireless, satellite connection
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/24015 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/24084 Remote and local monitoring, local result to remote, remote takes action
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31156 Network structure, internet
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31161 Java programcode or simular active agents, programs, applets
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/027 Alarm generation, e.g. communication protocol; Forms of alarm
• 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 of installing a mobile program code for the control of an industrial automation system with a central computer and a plurality of actors and sensors coupled via a bus system with said central installation computer, has the steps of transmitting the mobile program code from a remote location to the central computer of the industrial automation system, installing and commissioning the mobile program code independently on the industrial automation system, and generating by means of the mobile program code further mobile program codes having a defined task, and transmitting the further mobile program codes at least to said actors and sensors within the industrial automation system.

Claims

1. A method of installing a mobile program code for the control of an industrial automation system in a raw materials industry comprising a central computer and a plurality of actors and sensors coupled via a bus system with said central computer, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting the mobile program code from a remote location to the central computer of the industrial automation system for monitoring a fault or special event;

installing and commissioning the mobile program code independently on the industrial automation system;

generating by means of the mobile program code further mobile program code having a defined task; and

transmitting the further mobile program code at least to said actors and sensors to monitor the industrial automation system.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile program code is transmitted between the remote location and the industrial automation system via ISDN, satellite, or Internet.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile program code is JAVA program code.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising running the mobile program code on hardware provided for an open-loop or closed-loop control of the industrial automation system.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising independently monitoring the industrial automation system by means of the mobile program code for a fault or special event, in the event of which information needed to evaluate the fault or the special event is transmitted to the remote location by means of the mobile program code.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the industrial automation system further comprises automation devices located between said central computer and said actors and sensors.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the industrial automation system further comprises an industrial Ethernet bus for coupling said automation devices and said central computer.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the industrial automation system further comprises a Profibus for coupling said automation devices and said actors and sensors.