Process Control System and Plant Planning Tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018173183-A1
Application number	US-201715839383-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 12, 2017
Priority date	Dec 16, 2016
Publication date	Jun 21, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A process control system includes an engineering system for planning automation components into the project for a technical plant, a simulation framework for modeling the process behavior of field devices, a simulation unit for virtualizing the communication behavior of the real field devices and also includes a plant planning tool for planning the process engineering components of the plant into the project by which the commissioning of field-related components and a secure commissioning of a process engineering plant are made possible.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A process control system comprising:
an engineering system for planning automation components into a project for a technical plant, the automation components having at least one controller and field devices connected to said at least one controller to which field device addresses are allocated, for creating at least one control program and for loading the control program into the at least one controller; a simulation framework for modeling a process behavior of the field devices; at least one simulation unit for virtualizing a communication behavior of real field devices and for binding a modeled process behavior to the at least one controller; and a plant planning tool for planning process engineering components of the technical plant into the project, a user creating a piping and instrumentation diagram, which comprises symbols for the real field devices, via the plant planning tool; wherein the engineering system is configured to transfer field device addresses to the plant planning tool and the plant planning tool is configured to logically link at least one field of the field devices to the at least one simulation unit; and wherein the plant planning tool assigns an address of the at least one field device to the at least one simulation unit.

2 . The process control system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the logical linkage is initiated by a user marking, via a user input, a symbol or an image object of the at least one field device in the piping and instrumentation diagram, the plant planning tool assigning the address of the at least one field device to the at least one simulation unit as a result of the marking.

3 . The process control system as claimed by claim 1 , wherein the at least one simulation unit is configured to transfer at least one of (i) its status and (ii) a status of virtual field devices to the plant planning tool during commissioning.

4 . The process control system as claimed by claim 2 , wherein the at least one simulation unit is configured to transfer at least one of (i) its status and (ii) a status of virtual field devices to the plant planning tool during commissioning.

5 . The process control system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the plant planning tool is configured to display the status in at least one of (i) the piping and instrumentation diagram and (ii) a device hierarchy overview.

6 . A plant planning tool configured for the process control system as claimed in claim 1 .

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Drumm Oliver
• Lutz Benjamin
• Wolf Gerrit

Classifications

• G05B17/02 Primary

  electric · CPC title

• G05B2219/32337

  Simulation, statechart SC · CPC title

• G05B2219/31121

  Fielddevice, field controller, interface connected to fieldbus · CPC title

• G05B2219/25014

  Fieldbus general name of bus connected to machines, detectors, actuators · CPC title

• G05B19/0426 Primary

  Programming the control sequence · CPC title