Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Generic control system – apparatus or process – Sequential or selective
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-11
2006-07-11
Bahta, Kidest (Department: 2125)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Generic control system, apparatus or process
Sequential or selective
C700S071000, C700S179000, C361S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07076311
ABSTRACT:
A configurable control system for operating an industrial system in a reliable, safety-enhanced manner, and method of implementing such a system in any of a variety of particular industrial systems of a given class, are disclosed. The method includes storing, onto a controller of a particular industrial system, a master program capable of being used to operate a generalized industrial system having a maximum number of safety subsystems of a given type, where the particular industrial system falls within a class defined by the generalized system. The method also includes receiving a configuration input indicative of an absence/presence of a safety subsystem of the first type; validating the input; automatically configuring the master program to arrive at a configured program capable of operating the particular industrial system; and activating the controller for operation according to the configured program, which can include activating visualization or annunciation mechanisms representing the configured system.
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Bahta Kidest
Quarles & Brady LLP
Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc.
Speroff R. Scott
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