Patent ID: 11886170
Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a setting program configured to assist setting of a communication environment between a control device configured to execute a control program controlling a control target while managing a plurality of pieces of process data referred to or updated in the control program and one or more information processing devices configured to execute one or more applications using a value of one or more pieces of process data designated in the plurality of pieces of process data, the control device configured to periodically transmit one or more data sets, each data set including a value of one or more process data of the plurality of pieces of process data,
wherein the setting program, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to:
acquire process data necessary for each of the one or more applications executed in each of the one or more information processing devices;
determine a number of data sets transmitted by the control device and process data to be included in each data set of the determined number of data sets according to an evaluation criterion regarding a communication load based on the acquired process data necessary for each of the one or more applications,
update the evaluation criterion according to a result of monitoring the communication load, and
determine the number of the one or more data sets transmitted by the control device and the process data to be included in each data set according to the updated evaluation criterion.