Patent ID: 9471044
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G05B

Claim Text:
1. A method for debugging a control system of an industrial plant or parts of the industrial plant, the control system including at least two different control sub-systems, on a plant or sub-system level and having specific programmable controller units in devices including at least one of PLCs, DCSs, robots, drives, instruments and process specific components, the method comprising: extracting, by at least one processor of a computing device of the control system, all specified parameters and signals of the control system across the sub-systems of the control system, the devices, and technologies of the control system; visualizing, by the at least one processor, the extracted parameters on a single sight; defining, by the at least one processor, system-wide breakpoints by utilizing the extracted parameters; and debugging, by the at least one processor, the control system by utilizing a subset of (i) at least one of the extracted signals of the control system and the extracted parameters of the control system, and (ii) conditions related to at least one of the extracted signals and the extracted parameters, wherein the visualizing of the extracted parameters comprises displaying all of the extracted parameters simultaneously on the single sight, and wherein the system-wide breakpoints are defined across all sub-systems of the control system.