Patent ID: 8010939
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for the graphic planning of a control for a technical installation, with a planning window, comprising: providing a work area at least with one window for a planning level for displaying and linking graphic objects and one window for a symbol library containing the graphic objects available for planning, graphic control objects representing technical objects of the technical installation, and graphic operating device objects representing operating devices that can be used for a control; activating the graphic control objects of planning in the window for the symbol library and being transferred to the window for the planning level in a first step; linking the transferred graphic control objects according to an installation-specific control task in the window of the planning level in a second step; activating at least one graphic operating device object in the window of the symbol library and being transferred to the window of the planning level in a third step, and assigning the graphic operating device object to selected graphic control objects in a fourth step, wherein the technical installation is controlled by a programmable logic controller and operated and monitored via an operating device, and wherein the programmable logic controller and the operating device are programmed simultaneously via the graphic planning.