Patent ID: 9645564
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G05B,H02J

Claim:
1. A method for operating an automation system having a CPU processing a control program to control a technical process of a production plant, and having a power supply module which supplies electrical energy to units which consume electrical energy, the method comprising: providing at least one criterion of a respective unit to an analysis unit; determining, by the analysis unit, a current overall energy requirement based on the provided at least one criterion; automatically inserting, by the analysis unit, at least one program instruction representing the current overall energy requirement into the control program, or adapting at least one program instruction of the control program, the electrical energy supply for the units being adjusted in accordance with the current overall energy requirement during the control operation based on one of the inserted at least one program instruction and the adapted control program instruction; and switching units which are no longer needed to control the technical process of the production plant into an energy-saving mode.