Patent ID: 6799080
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
A configurable control system (CCS) for a manufacturing process system, for providing a user the ability to rapidly configure or reconfigure the associated processing system without the use of programming tools, the CCS comprising:configuration tool means for permitting a user to rapidly define the physical, logical, and control configuration for the associated processing system, said configuration tool including means for generating a configuration database file for the processing system configuration as implemented by a user at a given time; supervisory control and data acquisition means (SCADA) for automatically receiving data from said configuration database file, and operating to deploy the processing system configuration, deploy changes to the processing system configuration at any given time, and to automatically generate and change a man machine interface (MMI); and programmable logic controller means for automatically processing data from said configuration database file to assign input/output (IO) and logic based upon the desired system configuration at any given time.