Patent ID: 7613593
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: G05B,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for representing the configuration of an electrical system, comprising: generating and displaying configured function blocks of the electrical system as a first set of representations of physical objects of the electrical system; generating and displaying configured objects as a second set of representations of physical objects of the electrical system corresponding to the configured function blocks; creating communication variables in the second representation associated with the configured function blocks; assigning at least one of the communication variables to at least one of the configured objects; converting information formed by said creating and assigning into a first document formulated in a page description language, the first document containing first references to corresponding configured objects being associated with at least one of the functions blocks, and into a second document formulated in the page description language, and the second document containing second references to corresponding function blocks being associated with at least one of the configured objects; and displaying the first and second documents.