公开(公告)号：US20250093864A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18889621

申请日：2024-09-19

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Nicolai Schoch ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G05B23/02

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for evaluating at least one record of data characterizing at least one component of an industrial plant, comprising: transforming by a trained encoder the at least one record of data into a representation in an embedding space; comparing this representation to representations of semantic entities from a semantic information model in the same embedding space, wherein each semantic entity carries a semantic meaning with respect to the structure, the construction, and/or the functioning, of the industrial plant, and the semantic information model comprises relationships between the semantic entities; and evaluating from the result of the comparison the semantic meaning of the record of data with respect to the structure, the construction, and/or the functioning, of the industrial plant.

公开(公告)号：US20250086195A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18830787

申请日：2024-09-11

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Nicolai Schoch ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G06F16/25

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for formalizing an uncontrolled data format input includes obtaining by an input interface an uncontrolled data format input; determining by an input processing algorithm an embedding of the obtained uncontrolled data format input in an embedding space resulting from a plurality of preprocessed embeddings, wherein the embedding is represented by an embedding vector, wherein the embedding vector comprises a plurality of vector entries specifying the embedding; formalizing by an output processing algorithm a controlled data format output using the embedding; and outputting by an output interface, the controlled data format output.

公开(公告)号：US12216456B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US18316438

申请日：2023-05-12

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Joerg Schubert

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G06F9/445

Abstract: A method of providing a control software configuration for a module of a modular plant, the method including, in a module engineering phase: receiving a user definition for the module; and automatically generating the control software configuration for the module based on the user definition, the automatically generating including: specifying parameters for the module that are not specific to any target system; and providing the control software configuration as a controller-agnostic configuration file for subsequent binding of controller software instantiated according to the controller-agnostic configuration file to a hardware controller of the module when the module is integrated into a target system during a plant engineering phase.

公开(公告)号：US11880192B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17228730

申请日：2021-04-13

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dennis Janka ,  Moncef Chioua ,  Pablo Rodriguez ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Benedikt Schmidt ,  Benjamin Kloepper

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G06F30/18 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/14

CPC classification number: G05B19/41865 ,  G05B19/4183 ,  G05B19/4185 ,  G05B19/41885 ,  G06F30/18 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/145

Abstract: A method for determining an interdependency between a plurality of elements in an industrial processing system includes: providing a process flow diagram (PFD) of a topology of the processing system; transforming the PFD into a directed graph, each element of the plurality of elements being transformed into a node and each relation between the plurality of elements being transformed into a directed edge; selecting one node of the plurality of nodes as a starting node; and constructing a subgraph, the subgraph including all the nodes that are forward-connected from the starting node so as to show at least one interdependency between the plurality of elements in the subgraph.

公开(公告)号：US20230333540A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-19

申请号：US18308802

申请日：2023-04-28

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Roland Braun ,  Francisco Mendoza ,  Tilo Merlin ,  Thomas Gamer ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G05B19/4155

CPC classification number: G05B19/4155 ,  G05B2219/31368

Abstract: A method for providing a controlling frontend for an operating device configured for operating a field device includes providing an operational frame, wherein the operational frame serves as a generic user interface and is based on a companion specification; reading a field device specification from a database, wherein the field device specification comprises a structured set of field device attributes, which are related to the operating elements; and generating, based on the field device specification and the operational frame, a structured set of display elements for the controlling frontend, wherein at least some of the display elements of the controlling frontend are connected to the operating elements of the field device.

公开(公告)号：US20230244216A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18161207

申请日：2023-01-30

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Roland Braun ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Katharina Stark ,  Nicolai Schoch ,  Sten Gruener

IPC: G05B19/418

CPC classification number: G05B19/4186 ,  G05B19/41835

Abstract: A first gateway device for connecting an OPC UA client to a data-driven controller and/or control system includes a first interface implementing an OPC UA server and is configured to receive, from the OPC UA client, at least one call to invoke an OPC UA method on an OPC UA object, and a second interface that sends a request to write at least one value to at least one control variable of the data-driven controller and/or control system, and first translation logic therebetween. A second gateway device connects a data-driven controller and/or control system to a controlled device or subsystem of an industrial plant and includes a third interface that receives a value of a control variable, and a fourth interface that sends a call to invoke an OPC UA method on an OPC UA object, and second translation logic therebetween.

公开(公告)号：US20230244205A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18163355

申请日：2023-02-02

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz ,  Anders Trosten ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Linus Thrybom

IPC: G05B19/05

CPC classification number: G05B19/058 ,  G05B19/056

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a service-based control application for an industrial plant includes automatically segmenting an initial control code for the industrial plant into a plurality of code blocks and automatically creating a plurality of services, each service implementing the functionality of one or more of the plurality of code blocks. The automatically creating of the plurality of services is carried out considering a similarity of a criticality assigned to each of the plurality of code blocks, such that code blocks having more similar criticality are more likely to be implemented within the same service.

公开(公告)号：US11687062B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-27

申请号：US17369993

申请日：2021-07-08

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Joerg Schubert

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G05B19/418 ,  G06F9/445

CPC classification number: G05B19/41845 ,  G06F9/44542 ,  G05B2219/35029

Abstract: A method of providing a control software configuration for a module of a modular plant, the method including, in a module engineering phase: receiving a user definition for the module; and automatically generating the control software configuration for the module based on the user definition, the automatically generating including: specifying parameters for the module that are not specific to any target system; and providing the control software configuration as a controller-agnostic configuration file for subsequent binding of controller software instantiated according to the controller-agnostic configuration file to a hardware controller of the module when the module is integrated into a target system during a plant engineering phase.

公开(公告)号：US20230047304A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-16

申请号：US17884728

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Nicolai Schoch ,  Katharina Stark ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: A modular automation support system for modular plants comprises an automation engineering support system comprising a feedback processing component configured to modify the operation of one or more other components of the automation engineering support system based on user feedback.

公开(公告)号：US20230027121A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-26

申请号：US17956929

申请日：2022-09-30

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Roland Braun ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Julius Rueckert

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  H04L65/40

Abstract: An Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) aggregation server for aggregating at least one OPC UA server in a remote address space is described. The at least one OPC UA aggregation server is configured to support data reduction and/or redundancy mechanisms.