Patent ID: 7234138
Filing Date: 2007-06-19
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method for producing a regulator or controller having a target system and a regulation or control process, said regulation or control process being characterized by one or more parameters and implemented as process code which runs on the target system, said method comprising: Developing the regulation or control process on a development system, Using the development system to produce process code for performing said regulation or control process when executed on the target system, Using the development system to produce a description file, the description file describing at least the parameters characterizing the regulation or control process, Using the development system to produce a web server to be run on the target system from the description file, the web server being designed to access and change the parameters of the process code running on the target system and to produce a process control document in HTML or XML format which contains input or output elements for the parameters and to produce at least one access interface file having declarations for routines for accessing the parameters of the running process code, and wherein the access interface file is used when the web server is produced in order to produce code for accessing the parameters.