Patent ID: 9411333
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G05B,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method in an industrial safety system for controlling a process or equipment, said industrial safety system comprising components with safety devices and wherein said safety system enables signals to be generated as a result of an event or alarm, the method comprising creating an automated link between the event or alarm and an effect or an action to be taken upon receipt of said event or alarm signal due to the event, configuring a representation of a safety device, and configuring a different representation of said event or alarm, configuring one or more links comprising a link between the event and the input, thus forming a cause and effect matrix, generating a control code using said cause and effect matrix for subsequent download of said control code to safety controllers whereby a control signal is subsequently generated by at least one safety controller to initiate the action or effect, characterized by calculating a controller load for a safety controller processing said control code based on said cause and effect matrix for said at least one safety controller such that the calculated controller load is not exceeded in any safety controller, and by automatically dividing the control code between two or more safety controllers by dividing up said cause and effect matrix first into smaller matrices, generating a plurality of said control code, and distributing each of the plurality of said control code from each smaller matrix to each of the two or more safety controllers.