Patent ID: 8788976
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A project navigator for a hierarchical display of technological objects on a display device of a computer, wherein the technological objects are mutually interconnected and model a machine with a cascaded synchronous control, wherein each of the technological objects is selected by a user input facility, wherein, in a same hierarchical view, an input side connection tree and an output side connection tree associated with a selected technological object are displayed together with further technological objects on the display device together with all further sub-trees for both real and virtual axles such that a flow of movement signals of a model of the machine is displayed, wherein a relevant effective connection is visually highlighted in the project navigator in an online mode of the machine, and wherein a further navigation possibility permits navigation through a hierarchical cascaded structure based on the flow of movement signals of the model of the machine.