Forming plant and methods for operating it

Abstract

Forming system (1) or peripheral device for a forming system (1), comprising: - at least one non-safety control device (2) which has at least one signal input (3) and at least one signal output (4) for the non-safety control of non-safety-related actuators (5) of the forming system (1) or peripheral device, - at least one safe control device (6) which has at least one safe signal input (7) and at least one safe signal output (8) and in which a safety program (9) is stored which can be executed for the safe control of safety-relevant actuators (11) of the forming system (1) or peripheral device, - a Safety Engineering Tool (27) in which the safety program (9) for the safe control device (6) is programmable, wherein the safety program (6) generated by the Safety Engineering Tool (27) is stored, verified and executed from this Safety Engineering Tool (27) on the safe control device (6) via a direct connection or by means of a storage medium connected to the safe control device (6), characterized in that the forming system or peripheral device further comprises - an Electronic Computer-Aided Design Tool in which a circuit diagram (19) is created, wherein the same library of symbols and safety parameters (10) assigned to each symbol is used for the circuit diagram (19) as in the Safety Engineering Tool (27), wherein the circuit diagram (19) has individual symbols with assigned safety parameters (10), connections between the symbols and connections to the safe signal inputs (7) and signal outputs (8), - an export device by which an export file (28) is created from the circuit diagram (19) and from which the export file (28) is imported into the Safety Engineering Tool (27), wherein the Safety Engineering Tool (27) has a compiler by which a compilation process of the export file (28) is initiated and a compiled version of the circuit diagram (19) is generated, wherein the safety program (9) is a version of the circuit diagram (19) compiled by the compiler of the Safety Engineering Tool (27) that is executable by the safe control device (6).

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