MTP Library Mapping for Custom Modular Automation Engineering
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing MTP standard library is not suitable for world-scale plant projects, failing to meet customer or industry-specific requirements, hindering engineers from using modular engineering workflows effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method for integrating industry-specific or customer-specific libraries into engineering tools by mapping library objects and properties to standard MTP types, allowing for standard-compliant descriptions while enabling reuse of standard-specific parts during control system upgrades.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the MTP standard library is used for modular engineering, then standard compliance is achieved, but industry-specific and customer-specific requirements cannot be met
Solution Approach 1:
The library is segmented into two distinct parts: a standardized MTP core library that ensures compliance, and a customizable industry-specific library that meets particular requirements. This segmentation allows engineers to work with standard components while integrating specialized functionality through separate library modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The engineering tool is designed with universal library integration capabilities that can accommodate both standard MTP libraries and industry-specific libraries simultaneously. The mapping mechanism provides multi-functionality by enabling the same tool to handle standardized components and customized components through a unified interface.
2Adaptability or versatility
If industry-specific libraries are integrated into engineering tools, then customer requirements are met, but standard compliance may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
A mapping mechanism acts as an intermediary layer between industry-specific library objects and standard MTP types. This mediator translates and connects custom library elements to standardized counterparts, ensuring that customer-specific requirements are fulfilled while maintaining compatibility with MTP standards through the bridging mapping relationships.
Solution Approach 2:
The industry-specific library objects are nested within the standardized MTP framework through mapping relationships. The custom library can be embedded and integrated into the standard structure, allowing specialized functionality to operate within the boundaries and constraints of the standardized system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If custom library integration is enabled, then library fit with customer requirements improves, but engineering tool complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mapping between custom library objects and standard MTP types is performed in advance during the integration phase. This preliminary action establishes the translation relationships beforehand, so that during actual engineering work, the tool automatically handles the mapping without requiring complex real-time processing or manual intervention.
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AI summary
There is disclosed a method for integrating a library into an engineering tool in industrial plant. The method comprises selecting the library comprising a first type, the first type comprising one or more library objects associated with one or more properties; importing the selected library into the engineering tool; mapping the first type to a predetermined type among a plurality of predetermined types available in one or more predetermined libraries in the engineering tool; mapping the one or more properties to one or more predetermined properties associated with one or more predetermined library objects in the mapped predetermined type; and based on the mappings, integrating the library into the engineering tool.