Patent ID: 7353221
Filing Date: 2008-04-01
Classification: G05B,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for automatic retrieval, in an automation system, of engineering data from a runtime system for an engineering system, and restoring representatives of the automation objects in the engineering system, the automation system including a multiplicity of individual runtime automation objects in the runtime system, the runtime automation objects have no direct reference to any associated engineering objects in the engineering system, the method comprising: supplying, by each of the automation objects, an identifying designation of a type of respective representative to the engineering system; creating, via the engineering system, said representatives for the designated types and, for each of the representatives, entering a reference to the corresponding automation object; reading out each representative read out engineering information from the object into the representative using the reference; and restoring each of the representatives by entering said information into itself; wherein