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Engineering processes of technical systems and their embedded automation systems are
executed with increasing efficiency and quality. Especially since the project duration
tends to increase as the complexity of the engineered system increases. To solve this
problem, the engineering process is more often being executed by exploiting software
based engineering tools exchanging engineering information and artefacts along the
engineering process related tool chain.
Communication systems establish an important part of modern technical systems and,
especially, of automation systems embedded within them. Following the increasing decentralisation
of automation systems and the application of fieldbus and Ethernet technology connecting
automation devices and further interacting entities need to fulfil special requirements
on communication quality, safety and security. Thus, within the engineering process
of modern technical systems, engineering information and artefacts relating to communication
systems also need to be exchanged along the engineering process tool chain.
In each phase of the engineering process of technical systems, communication system
related information can be created which can be consumed in later engineering phases.
A typical application case is the creation of configuration information for communication
components of automation devices including communication addresses and communication
package structuring within controller programming devices during the control programming
phase and its use in a device configuration tool. Another typical application case
is the transmission of communication device configurations to virtual commissioning
tools, to ...
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