US 11,982,986 B2
Data synchronization system for device based engineering
Rizwan Majeed, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US); Georg Muenzel, Waischenfeld (DE); Gustavo Arturo Quiros Araya, Princeton, NJ (US); Kai Liu, Heroldsberg (DE); Swen Elpelt, Belle Mead, NJ (US); and Yunhua Fu, Princeton, NJ (US)
Assigned to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/419,331
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/015062
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/153966, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0083018 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G05B 19/05 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06F 8/658 (2018.01); G06F 8/71 (2018.01)
CPC G05B 19/056 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4185 (2013.01); G06F 8/658 (2018.02); G06F 8/71 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An engineering data synchronization system for an industrial automation environment, the engineering data synchronization system comprising:
a data memory storing an engineering object model (EOM) comprising engineering data for an automation control device in the industrial automation environment;
a synchronization server in communication with the data memory, the synchronization server configured to synchronize the engineering data in the EOM responsive to changes in the engineering data;
an engineering function server in communication with the synchronization server, the engineering function server configured to implement the device engineering functions for the automation control device on the engineering data; and
a communication server in communication with the engineering function server, the communication server implementing an engineering function interface configured to expose the device engineering functions for the automation control device over a network to authorized clients that request execution of the device engineering functions.