Abstract: A control system for a technical installation, in particular a processing or production installation, wherein the control system includes an operator station server and an operator station client, where the operator station server generates visualization information and transfers the visualization information to the operator station client for visualization so as to enable the technical installation to be operated and monitored by an operator, where the visualization information includes a first and second installation images of the technical installation, in which digitally represented components of the technical installation and associated measurement data are or can be visually depicted for operation and monitoring of the technical installation, where the control system is configured to visually depict the second installation image to the operator via the operator station client during visual depiction of the first installation image to the operator via the operator station client and as a result of an eve

Abstract: A control system for a technical installation, wherein an operator station server transmits visualization information to an operator station client and the operator station client generates a visualization for an operator of the technical installation based on the visualization information, where the control system captures, at at least one first point in time, when instigated by a first operator, a state of the visualization of an installation state generated at this point in time by the first operator station client and stores it in a first memory such that inputs by the first operator are also captured and stored for generating the state of the visualization, and the control system receives from the first operator, via the first operator station client, information about at least one second operator as the receiver for the stored state of the visualization and assigns the state of the visualization to this second operator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control system (9) for a technical installation. The control system comprises an operator station server (3) and an operator station client (2) which is connected to the server, wherein the server (3) transmits visualisation information to the client (2), and wherein the client (2) generates a graphical display (1) for an operator by means of the visualisation information, and wherein the client (2) accepts a request for a modification of the display (1) from the operator and transmits said request to the server (3), and wherein the server (3) stores the request received by the client (2) in a memory (16) of the server (3). The operator station client (2) accepts a condition, which can be specified by the operator, for applying the modification of the graphical display (1) and transmits it to the server (3), wherein the server (3) stores the condition in the memory (16) of the server (3).

Abstract: A control system for a technical plant, in particular a process or production plant, includes an operator station server and an engineering station server, wherein the engineering station server includes a computer-implemented design tool via which an automation configuration for an automation of the technical plant can be created, and wherein the engineering station server transmits the automation configuration for operating and monitoring the technical plant to the operator station server, where operator station server of the control system refuses, for a specific period of time, receipt or processing of the automation configuration for the operation and monitoring of the technical plant if an abort condition is present.

Abstract: Industrial automation system with a system for embedding a web application to be embedded in a surrounding web application and method for embedding a web application into a surrounding web application, wherein the web application to be embedded is provided to run in a separate execution and display region of the surrounding web application, the web application to be embedded is provided by at least two web servers so as to increase redundancy, monitoring capability and operability and therefore fault tolerance, to reduce complexity, to reduce communication traffic and to obtain improved options for access restriction for personnel, particularly in large industrial automation systems, such as process control systems.

Abstract: A control system for a technical installation, in particular a manufacturing facility or process plant, includes at least one first operator station server and one second operator station server and is configured to initiate the issuance and revocation of certificates for components of the technical installation as part of certificate management, and is configured to publish revocation of a previously issued certificate within the control system as a certificate revocation list, where the control system is configured to store the certificate revocation list on the first operator station server and/or on the second operator station server, where the control system is configured to synchronize the first operator station server and the second operator station server with one another such that a certificate revocation list with identical content is stored on both operator station servers.

Abstract: A control system for a technical plant, particularly a process or manufacturing plant, includes an operator station server and an operator station client, wherein the operator station server transmits, for operation and monitoring, an image of the technical plant to the operator station client, the operator station client visually displays the image with a plurality of image elements to an operator of the technical plant and the control system includes a visualization service implemented on the operator station server for a first part and implemented on the operator station client for a second part, where the visualization service is configured to determine information about an accumulated transmission status of the plurality of image elements from the operation station server to the operator station client and to visually display them to the operator of the control system, and where the accumulated transmission status is a logical Boolean value.

Abstract: Method and control system for a technical installation, in particular a manufacturing or processing installation, includes at least one operator station server and at least one operator station client connected to the operator station server, wherein the operator station server transmits visualization information to the operator station client and the operator station client generates, via the visualization information, a graphical presentation for an operator of the technical installation of a temporal progression of a measured variable of the control system assigned to a technical object of the technical installation within a specific, past time period, where the control system is configured to visually indicate to the operator on the operator station client operating actions that have been implemented by the operator or another operator within the specified, past time period.

Abstract: A method for engineering an automation system that is usually tested before being put into operation, wherein a “twin” or a virtual component is generated and loaded onto a server for each real component to perform the function of the real components in a simulated manner in place of said real components, such that it is thus possible for a user to replace various real components with virtual components during the engineering process and to check or simulate the function of the automation system, where it becomes possible to perform a synchronous optimization of automation systems or to put automation programs and system displays into operation in a coexistent, safe, flexible, and incremental manner.

Abstract: A control system for a technical plant, in particular processing or manufacturing plant, includes an operator station server and an operator station client, wherein the operator station server transmits a plant diagram of the technical plant to the operator station client for control and observation purposes, where the operator station client visually and possibly acoustically renders a plant diagram with a variable diagram element to an operator, an alarm service implemented on the operator station server transmits alarm notifications to the operator station client for output to the operator, where the control system provides the variable diagram element with a reference to a particular alarm notification that arises and provides the particular alarm notification that arises and/or the variable diagram element with a reference to an object, such that, when the particular alarm notification arises does arise, the object is visually and possibly acoustically rendered in the variable diagram element.

Abstract: A control system for a manufacturing or process installation includes at least one operator station server and at least one operator station client connected to the operator station server, wherein the operator station server is configured to transfer visualization information to the operator station client, where the visualization information comprises a plurality of exchangeable installation images and where the operator station client is configured to present the visualization information with the exchangeable installation images to an operator of the manufacturing or process installation, where the control system is configured to present the operator of the manufacturing or process installation, at the runtime of the manufacturing or process installation, with a test image that differs from the installation images and that comprises a color region having the colors used in at least two of the installation images of the visualization information.

Abstract: A method for visual representation of a facility mimic diagram of a technical facility, in particular a process or manufacturing facility, which has an operator station server, an engineering station server and an operator station client, wherein a) a facility mimic diagram of the technical facility is transferred from the operator station server to the operator station client, b) visually limiting representation of the facility mimic diagram by the operator station client, and c) automatically notifying the engineering station server about the limitation of the visual representation of the facility mimic diagram set by the operator station client via a message.

Abstract: An operator station server of a control system of a process engineering plant, wherein the server includes a computer-implemented process image that has, for a runtime of the process engineering plant, at least one first computer-implemented process object and a second computer-implemented process object which are each associated with a technical object of the process engineering plant and are operatively connected to same, where two associated technical objects are operatively connected within the process engineering plant, and where the first process object has a reference to the second process object.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for representing operator control information in the context of operator control and monitoring of a technical installation is proposed, which has at least one operator station server and one operator station client, wherein at least one measurement value of at least one technical object of the technical installation is received via the operator station server, a trend progression of the measurement value is generated in the event that an alarm, which relates to the measurement value, occurs in the operator station server, the trend progression from the operator station server is transferred to the operator station client, and the trend progression is visually presented to an operator of the technical installation in a trend progression diagram.

Abstract: A control system for a technical plant, in particular a process or manufacturing plant, includes an operator station server and an operator station client, wherein the operator station server includes a computer implemented visualization service that transmits a plant mimic diagram to the operator station client that visually presents the plant mimic diagram to an operator of the control system, where a digital process image of the technical plant is implemented on the operator station server, the operator station server additionally enables the operator to continuously monitor a runtime operator specifiable state of an operator-specifiable measuring device of the technical plant, where the operator station server additionally notifies the operator of a state change of the measuring device, independently of a visual presentation of the plant mimic diagram, and where the measuring device state is obtainable from the digital process image of the technical plant implemented on the operator station server.

Abstract: A method for handling security alarms by a control system of a technical installation includes a) receiving diagnostic messages that have been generated by technical objects (7) of a technical installation; b) analyzing the diagnostic messages such that diagnostic messages relevant to the security of an operation of the technical installation are identified by means of comparative data records, where a machine learning network is used to analyze the diagnostic messages to assess the security relevance of the diagnostic messages, where the network is previously trained using special inputs from operators of the technical installation that have assessed past diagnostic messages with regard to their security relevance; c) if necessary, adapting the previously identified diagnostic messages to requirements of a computer-implemented security module of the technical installation and d) transmitting the previously identified and optionally adapted diagnostic messages to the computer-implemented security module of th

Abstract: A method for visually representing temporally aggregated measurement values includes generating image information over a period of time from temporally aggregated measurement values of a measurement variable associated with a technical object of a technical plant by an operator station server of a control system of the technical plant, adding information to the image information concerning fuzziness of the temporal aggregation of a specific temporally aggregated measurement value by comparison with the non-aggregated measurement values taken into consideration for the temporal aggregation of the specific measurement value, transmitting the image information to an operator station client, visually presenting the time profile of the temporally aggregated measurement values and the information concerning the fuzziness of the specific temporal aggregation of the temporally aggregated measurement points to an operator of the technical plant.

Abstract: A computer-implemented configuration tool for configuring a plurality of process components of a process plant includes a first tool component and a second tool component, wherein the first tool component generates an automation of the process components for the process plant and is assigns to each process component, during the automation, a parameterisation and an interaction with further process components, and the second tool component generates an operation and observation for the process components of the process plant, where the configuration tool provides the second tool component with a process component, which is automated by the first tool component, with its parameterisation and its interaction with further process components, such that the second tool component is not required to make adjustments to the automated process component to integrate it into the operation and observation of the plurality of process components of the process plant.

Abstract: A method for project-oriented authentication of a device in a control system for a technical installation as part of an engineering project, wherein the control system includes at least one local registration service, at least one software inventory and a certification center, where information by the at least one local registration service with respect to what communication protocols and/or applications are supported by the device and/or are active is ascertained during authentication of the device within the control system, a project-oriented device certificate is requested from the first hierarchy of the certification center by the local registration service, and the project-oriented device certificate is deposited in an inventory element, associated with the engineering project, of the software inventory of the control system, the device certificates being issuable by the first hierarchy of the certification center have a unique project identifier.

Abstract: Control system and method for a technical plant, in particular a production or process plant, includes an operator station server and an operator station client connected to the operator station server, wherein the operator station client, at runtime of the plant, receive an instruction specified by the operator for an operator activity relating to the plant and a condition specified by the operator and which relates to an internal state of the plant for the instruction and transmit them to the operator station server, and the operator station server stores the instruction and condition received from the operator station client in memory and checks whether the condition is met, such that operators can adapt flexibly and efficiently to the operation and monitoring of the plant, particularly if it is formed in a modular manner for plant configurations that change during its life cycle.