Reusable Template Library for Automation Engineering Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current automation systems lack a cross-industry concept for reusing existing technological objects and modules across different domains, leading to increased development costs and inefficiencies in project engineering.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for managing and providing reusable technological objects through a centralized library that allows users to create, store, and update elements as templates, enabling their replication and use in new solutions, with bi-directional connections for automatic updates and user-controlled modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If existing solutions are reused across different domains, then development costs are reduced, but there is no cross-industry concept available to enable this reuse
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal library system that stores technological objects as reusable templates with standardized interfaces and attributes. These templates can be instantiated across different domains (automation, MES, etc.) by simply changing parameters, enabling the same core elements to serve multiple industries and applications without requiring separate development for each domain.
2Productivity
If reusable modules are stored in domain-specific libraries, then development efficiency is improved within that domain, but there is no provision for making modifications when using reusable modules
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic templates where reusable modules are defined with configurable parameters and attributes. When instantiated, these templates can be dynamically modified by adjusting their parameters without affecting the original template. The system maintains a hierarchy between templates and instances, allowing modifications at the instance level while preserving the ability to update all instances when the template changes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If elements are created from scratch for each project, then complete customization is achieved, but development costs and engineering overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-defines technological objects as templates with standardized structures, attributes, and interfaces before they are needed in specific projects. These templates are created once and stored in a library, then reused across multiple projects through instantiation. This preliminary creation of reusable elements eliminates the need to recreate common components from scratch for each project, significantly reducing development costs while maintaining customization through parameter adjustment.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a system and a method for managing and/or providing elements, in particular technological objects. The system enables elements, in particular technological objects, to be reused in the development of a project engineering solution. Here, at least one element is created, in particular by a user of the system, with the at least one element serving as a template for the generation of an exemplar as an image or a plurality of exemplars as images of the element. The created elements are stored in a library and an exemplar of a stored element is created, the exemplar being used in the development of a solution, in particular an automation solution.