Patent ID: 7663771

Claim:
A device for controlling a printing press, said printing press having at least one unit embodied as a material feeding device adapted to feed a material to be printed, at least one unit embodied as one of a printing unit and a printing group to print on said material received from said material feeding device and at least one unit embodied for farther processing of said material printed on by said one of said printing unit and said printing group, said device comprising: at least one separate control element for each one of said at least one unit embodied as a material feeding device, said one of said printing unit and said printing group and said at least one unit for further processing of said material; a common control system assigned to a plurality of said separate control elements of said units, said common control system having a central data memory with an identifier space, in which up-to-date actual values and/or up-to-date command variables are stored in the form of process variables, said central data memory being connected to said plurality of said separate control elements by at least one communications layer embodied as one of ah higher order process unit and a computing unit; and wherein said central data memory has a memory area for said process variables, each of said process variables having a data structure that is designed with the use of a data set describing a projected installation for said printing press, and said central data memory is a data server that employs object management in accordance with an object model standard.