Patent ID: 7418360
Filing Date: 2008-08-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A project design method for automating a control sequence in a configurable system with a plurality of components, the components capable of exchanging at regular time intervals during the control sequence information with another of the components via communication relationships, comprising the steps of: with the system, based on a topology and a functionality of the components communicated to the system by a user input, selecting exactly one system project design from a plurality of system project designs, with the selected system project design containing exactly one component project design for each component of the system; designing each of the components in the system according to the corresponding component project design; causing each of the components to implement the communication relationships to the other components according to the component project design of the particular component, testing the communication relationships to the other components and, if the communication relationships to the other components are successfully established, transmitting a confirmation message to a central unit and, upon receipt of an activation command from the central unit, resuming normal operation, and if the communication relationships to the other components has errors, transmitting an error message to the central unit.