公开(公告)号：US20250141713A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-01

申请号：US18905236

申请日：2024-10-03

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Thomas Keul ,  Robert Norberg ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Stefan Pook

IPC: H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/40

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an I/O station for signalling between a network and a plurality of field devices in an automation system. The I/O station comprises an I/O network interface, and a plurality of I/O modules, each providing one or more I/O channels connecting respective one or more field device(s) of the plurality of field devices, whereby each of the field devices is communicatively connected to the network via the I/O module and the network interface. At least one of the I/O modules is an APL I/O module connecting APL field device(s) of the plurality of field devices, and at least one of the I/O modules is a non-APL I/O module connecting non-APL field device(s) of the plurality of field devices. The I/O station is configured for tunnelling data between at least one of the I/O modules and the network.

公开(公告)号：US10409248B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-10

申请号：US15772447

申请日：2015-11-02

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Chaojun Xu ,  Axel Haller ,  Rainer Drath ,  Ralf Jeske

IPC: G05B19/042

Abstract: A configuration system and method for process automation configured to access structural process diagrams representing process components. Each process component includes interconnections between process components. Each interconnection represents a physical connection. The system has at least one processor configured to generate corresponding process object instances for process components wherein a particular component type defines at least an interlock property and/or an operating condition.

公开(公告)号：US20230280725A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-07

申请号：US18316438

申请日：2023-05-12

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Joerg Schubert

IPC: 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：US20220011756A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-13

申请号：US17369993

申请日：2021-07-08

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Joerg Schubert

IPC: G05B19/418

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：US20250150337A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-08

申请号：US18934778

申请日：2024-11-01

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Thomas Keul ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Stefan Pook

IPC: H04L41/0806 ,  G05B19/418

Abstract: A method for network configuration in an industrial automation system includes obtaining, by a process control system comprising a plurality of network devices each associated with a network switch, network configuration data; and using the network configuration data to configure the network devices. The network configuration data identifies at least a redundancy protocol to be used by each of the network devices. Obtaining the network configuration data comprises activating one or more network connections of the network switches as a minimum number of network connections for obtaining the network configuration data, and receiving the network configuration data via the one or more activated network connections.

公开(公告)号：US20180314222A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-01

申请号：US15772447

申请日：2015-11-02

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Chaojun Xu ,  Axel Haller ,  Rainer Drath ,  Ralf Jeske

IPC: G05B19/042

CPC classification number: G05B19/0426 ,  G05B2219/13148 ,  G05B2219/15009

Abstract: A configuration system and method for process automation configured to access structural process diagrams representing process components. Each process component includes interconnections between process components. Each interconnection represents a physical connection. The system has at least one processor configured to generate corresponding process object instances for process components wherein a particular component type defines at least an interlock property and/or an operating condition.

公开(公告)号：US20250047559A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18790282

申请日：2024-07-31

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Stefan Pook ,  Thomas Keul ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Andreas Wahlmann ,  Huan Shi ,  Tina-TingTing Hong

IPC: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04L41/0654

Abstract: A network device for an automation system includes a network switch, wherein the network device is configured to access non-volatile storage to which the network device is communicatively coupled to obtain provisioning data for the network switch, wherein the provisioning data comprises data enabling the network device to obtain at least a baseline configuration for the network switch. The provisioning data comprises data enabling the network device comprising the network switch to obtain the at least baseline configuration for the network switch.

公开(公告)号：US20240248444A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18413404

申请日：2024-01-16

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Hans Thilderkvist ,  Sunil Karlekar ,  Ulf Hagberg ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Raoul Jetley

IPC: G05B19/042

CPC classification number: G05B19/042 ,  G05B2219/25083

Abstract: An engineering server of a process control system includes at least one processor operable to provide a group of engineering services of an engineering services platform, which group includes at least one engineering directory service and at least one group of model services, where each engineering directory service provides at least one object of a type corresponding to a type of process control equipment and each model service provides a function operating on an object provided by a corresponding engineering directory service and allowing a user to configure the corresponding function, wherein the model services and the engineering directory service are realized as microservices and each model service communicates with the corresponding engineering directory service via a corresponding point-to-point connection and stores configurations made by the user in a source file store for being implemented as configurations of real functions in a runtime system of the process control system operating on process control equipment.

公开(公告)号：US20230075818A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

申请号：US17940481

申请日：2022-09-08

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Roland Braun ,  Thomas Gamer ,  Ralf Jeske ,  Anders Trosten ,  Jeff Harding ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Sten Gruener

IPC: H04L67/125 ,  G06F12/10

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed at a façade server. The façade server provides a configurable façade having a configurable address space and serving as an interface for a client and to provide a mapping between the configurable address space of the façade and a data space and/or an address space of an external server.

公开(公告)号：US20180039261A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-08

申请号：US15667301

申请日：2017-08-02

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Axel Haller ,  Chaojun Xu ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Rainer Drath ,  Ralf Jeske

IPC: G05B23/02

CPC classification number: G05B23/0221 ,  G05B23/0267 ,  G05B23/0272 ,  G05B2219/23163 ,  G05B2219/31473

Abstract: A system for monitoring a modular process plant complex having a plurality of interconnected process modules each of which includes a plurality of interconnected physical control objects. The physical control objects and their interconnections inside a physical process module are displayed together with associated control parameters as stylized control objects on an operator display screen with four different zooming levels: a first zooming level displaying diagrams of aggregated key performance indicators of the plant complex; a second zooming level displaying diagrams of the key performance indicators; a third zooming level displaying process modules associated with a plant area of the second zooming level; and a fourth zooming level displaying one or more physical control objects included in a process module of the third zooming level together with the associated control parameters and interconnections as stylized control objects on the operator screen display.