Patent ID: 7890437

Claim:
A computer-aided configuration for a technical installation, the configuration comprising: a presentation layer with operator control interfaces for operation and engineering; an application layer containing all applications; an engineering unit having a data manager for creating and maintaining data models for operating and system functions; a realtime basic processing layer for supplying all of said applications and operator control interfaces with information about the technical installation; said applications in said realtime basic processing layer being respectively combined to form application bundles, and each of said application bundles having a respective underlying data model; said application bundles respectively storing data in an application bundle storage device in the form of Shared Memory Mapped Files, on the basis of said underlying data model; a database having data models, said data models of said application bundles in said realtime basic processing layer being associated with said data models of said database by an association function, and data in said database being transmitted to said respective relevant application bundles in line with said association function; and a respective auxiliary manager associating said respective data in said database with said respective Shared Memory Mapped Files, and Change Log files assuring an association function between said data models.