公开(公告)号：US11790291B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US17398026

申请日：2021-08-10

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G06Q10/0631 ,  G06Q10/20 ,  G06Q50/04

CPC classification number: G06Q10/0631 ,  G06Q10/20 ,  G06Q50/04

Abstract: An automated maintenance schedule generation method includes: receiving planning data for designing a modular plant comprising physical modules as received planning data; selecting digital modules, correlating to respective physical modules, from a database, depending on the received planning data as respective correlating physical modules, the digital modules including maintenance information of the respective correlating physical modules; associating the selected digital modules depending on the received planning data; determining an expected maintenance need including an expected maintenance issue and/or an expected maintenance issue date for the selected physical modules depending on the received maintenance information as a determined maintenance need; and generating a maintenance schedule for the modular plant depending on the determined maintenance need.

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：US20230251635A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-10

申请号：US18300782

申请日：2023-04-14

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Sten Gruener ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Katharina Stark ,  Roland Braun ,  Michael Vach ,  Nicolai Schoch ,  Marcel Dix

IPC: G05B19/418

CPC classification number: G05B19/41845 ,  G05B19/41885 ,  G05B2219/32097 ,  G05B2219/32124

Abstract: A method of integrating modules into a hybrid modular plant comprising a discrete manufacturing part and a continuous manufacturing part includes integrating the discrete part into the continuous part, comprising constructing at least one module definition file mapping one or more discrete-part units of the discrete part to a continuous-part module and importing the module definition file into an orchestration layer of the continuous part. Alternatively, the method comprises integrating the continuous part into the discrete part, comprising constructing one or more interfaces representing each continuous-part module as one or more respective discrete-part units.

公开(公告)号：US11650574B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-16

申请号：US17559014

申请日：2021-12-22

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz ,  Katharina Stark ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G05B19/4155

CPC classification number: G05B19/4155 ,  G05B2219/31372

Abstract: A method for custom logic engineering in an industrial modular plant executing a production process includes receiving process data for the production process using at least one physical process module; determining a custom process topology by selecting, based on the received process data, at least one module type package, MTP; correlating to the at least one respective physical process module from a database, wherein the module type package is a digital representation of the respective physical process module; selecting at least one extender unit from the database based on the received process data; representing a logical function of the production process; determining connections between the extender unit(s) and the at least one MTP; setting properties of the extender unit(s) based on the received process data; and determining an extended control scheme for controlling dynamic behavior of the production process using the determined custom process topology.

公开(公告)号：US20230121753A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17957133

申请日：2022-09-30

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Santonu Sarkar ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Nicolai Schoch ,  Katharina Stark

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: A method for verifying process orchestration logic for a modular plant includes generating a plant execution model representing the process orchestration logic; analyzing the plant execution model to identify one or more potential failure scenarios; and generating one or more test cases based on the one or more identified failure scenarios.

公开(公告)号：US20220415158A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17894728

申请日：2022-08-24

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Katharina Stark ,  Dirk Schulz

IPC: G08B23/00 ,  G08B21/18 ,  G05B19/418

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an operational state of an industrial plant includes acquiring alarms raised within the plant and adding them to a pool of important alarms, determining whether a physical state of the plant indicated by a first alarm causes a second alarm or meets a predetermined state-dependent condition and, if so, moving the first alarm to a pool of informative alarms; and determining the operational state of the plant and/or a corrective action for improving this operational state based on the alarms in the pool of important alarms.

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：US20210397163A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17353834

申请日：2021-06-22

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Katharina Stark ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: An engineering system for orchestration of an industrial plant includes: a modular plant to be orchestrated including at least one processor from a topology having: a process orchestration layer, and a plurality of modules. A portion of the the plurality of modules are formed as at least one combined module. Each combined module of the at least one combined module has at least two different modules of the portion of the plurality of modules. The process orchestration layer controls the plurality of modules. The control by the process orchestration layer includes in-direct control of the portion of the plurality of modules via control of the at least one combined module.

公开(公告)号：US20210365852A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-25

申请号：US17398026

申请日：2021-08-10

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz ,  Mario Hoernicke

IPC: G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G06Q50/04

Abstract: An automated maintenance schedule generation method includes: receiving planning data for designing a modular plant comprising physical modules as received planning data; selecting digital modules, correlating to respective physical modules, from a database, depending on the received planning data as respective correlating physical modules, the digital modules including maintenance information of the respective correlating physical modules; associating the selected digital modules depending on the received planning data; determining an expected maintenance need including an expected maintenance issue and/or an expected maintenance issue date for the selected physical modules depending on the received maintenance information as a determined maintenance need; and generating a maintenance schedule for the modular plant depending on the determined maintenance need.

公开(公告)号：US20210349453A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17382387

申请日：2021-07-22

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Jan Christoph Schlake ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Dirk Schulz

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: A method for generating a dynamic model of an industrial plant having: a plurality of physical processes that are dependent such that an outcome of at least one first process is fed into at least one second process; a plurality of low-level controllers, each controller acting upon at least one physical process such that at least one process variable of the at least one physical process is controlled to match a set-point of the low-level controller; and a plurality of sensors, each sensor measuring at least one process variable of one of the physical processes, and/or of the plant as a whole, the set-points of the low-level controllers and current values of the process variables measured by the sensors being the inputs of the model, and predicted future values of the process variables that are likely to result from applying the set-points to the low-level controllers being the outputs.