Abstract: A method for identifying an output alarm message of an alarm message cluster in a management system of a technical installation is proposed, wherein alarm messages arriving in the management system of the technical installation are detected and stored in a storage device, a specific time range is defined for further processing the alarm messages contained in the time range, at least one time instant within the time range, at which an output alarm message arrives in the technical installation is determined, and the at least one specific time instant is transmitted to a control device, which is embodied to display the alarm messages.

Abstract: An operator station server of a technical installation upon which a certification service is implemented, wherein the certification service is configured to receive configuration information, which depends on a role of the operator station server in the technical installation, from at least one of (i) an engineering station server and (ii) a registration service of the technical installation, where the configuration information comprises information identifying which certificates of the certification service of the operator station server must be requested from a certification authority of the technical installation.

Abstract: An arrangement with operator servers and operator clients, wherein process image modules associated with process objects and having tags are stored in the operator servers, where the operator server functions as a local server and the other operator server functions as a remote server, the local server receives the tags stored in the remote servers, where each operator client registers with one of the operator servers to establish a client-server connection, and is also configured to display a system image with block symbols associated with the process objects, and where the local server transmits the process data of the local and the process data of the remote server to the registered operator client via the client-server connection in order to update the block symbols of the system image such that, within the scope of updating a system image, an operator is referred to the communication load between the operator servers.

Abstract: In planning and engineering an automation solution which comprises an automation system and a process engineering plant, objects that represent the components of the configured automation solution are imported by means of a simulation tool to simulate the automation solution on the basis of simulation models associated with the imported objects. Attributes contained in objects which represent the hardware components of the automation system and which describe IT security events that may be generated by the components are entered into the associated simulation models for simulatively generating security events in a simulation of the automation solution, for transferring the simulatively generated security events to a Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system for evaluation, and for using the results of the evaluation generated by the SIEM system to simulate the automation solution.

Abstract: A decentralized peripheral having process input and process output modules which, in a process control mode of operation, interact with field devices connected to these modules, and having an interface module in which a process image is stored, wherein in the process control mode of operation the process input modules write process input values for processing via an automation device connected to the decentralized peripheral into the process image, and the automation device writes process output values for processing via the process output modules into the process image such that as real a behavior as possible of this decentralized peripheral can be simulated.

Abstract: A process control system includes an engineering system for a project configuration of hardware and software components of a process control system, an operator system having a runtime component for operator control and monitoring of a technical process, and an archive system for archiving project configuration inputs of the engineering system and for archiving operator inputs in the operator system, via which a project engineer and/or an operator may be provided with the relationships between engineering-relevant actions or events and runtime-relevant actions or events.

Abstract: A method for initially allocating and/or renewing certificates for devices and/or applications in a control system for a technical installation on the basis of certificates, wherein the devices and/or applications, within a framework of the initial allocation and/or renewal of the certificates, use a certificate management protocol to post a certificate request at at least one certification authority of the technical installation, where the devices and/or applications, in addition to the certificate management protocol, implement a certification service that generates a stateless alarm message and provides this generated stateless alarm message in the control system, when a certificate request previously posted by the device and/or the application is unanswered by the certification authority after expiration of a previously determined period of time.

Abstract: Operator System and method for identifying and displaying operator accesses to process objects within the scope of process management and process monitoring such that an efficient coordination of operator accesses is achieved.

Abstract: A method for checking the relationship between a process alarm of a process object displayed visually on an operator client of a process control system and output acoustically, wherein an operator server of the process control system is provided with an alarm message component for preparing process alarms to be output acoustically and for transmitting these process alarms to an alarm output, and is provided with an alarm display component for preparing process alarms to be output visually and for transmitting these process alarms to the operator client, on which the process alarms can be displayed, where the output of the respective acoustic process alarms can be deactivated via an operator input on the operator client such that an operator can determine at any time whether an inconsistency is present between an alarm output acoustically and visually.

Abstract: A method for updating process objects of an automation project stored in an engineering system, wherein an automation device is designed and/or configured via the engineering system to control a technical process and wherein, furthermore, the technical process to be controlled can be operated and monitored via an operator system in which changes to process objects made during the run-time are not lost but secured and are automatically “updated” or “traced” in the engineering system.

Abstract: A method for operating and observing a technical plant to be controlled, wherein block symbols for plant schematics can be generated which are structured, personalized, and assembled dynamically at runtime which, for example, enable an efficiently guided and assisted handling of alarm messages by an operator, where the dynamically updated display of alarm-producing process objects based on an equipment hierarchy enables an evaluation of items causing floods of alarms.

Abstract: Operator System and method for identifying and displaying operator accesses to process objects within the scope of process management and process monitoring such that an efficient coordination of operator accesses is achieved.

Abstract: A flowchart of a process plant is compiled by linking graphical process objects representing operator-controllable and observable facilities of the plant when planning a process plant, wherein the process in the process plant is simulated with reference to simulation models assigned to the graphical process objects during a simulation phase, where simulation models include energy consumption models that describe the electrical energy consumption of the respective facilities to be described as a function of measurable or known process variables in the plant and hence enable simulation and optimization of the automation with respect to electrical energy consumption and energy efficiency.

Abstract: A method for authenticating devices and/or applications, specifically web applications, in a control system for an industrial plant, wherein the control system includes at least one local registration service and at least one software inventory, where the method includes determining by the at least one local registration service information about which communications protocols and/or applications are supported by the devices and/or applications and/or which communications protocols and/or applications are active, during authentication of the devices and/or applications within the control system, and storing the device-specific information determined by the local registration service in the at least one software inventory of the control system.

Abstract: An engineering system for planning an automation entity, wherein the engineering system is configured to store and display first objects for at least one automation device and second objects for at least one operator system in a structured manner in accordance with a technological hierarchy, and to generate from the first objects first runtime data for loading into the automation device and from the second objects second runtime data for loading into the operator system, and wherein components of the first runtime data are operatively connected to components of the second runtime data such that it is possible to distinguish between a planning error and the consequences of a delta loading of runtime data.

Abstract: An operator system for a process control system, wherein the operator system includes an operator server and at least one operator client connected to the operator server, where operators authenticate with respective login data via the at least one operator client or via a plurality of operator clients of the operator system on an authentication server and the authentication server generates, for each of the authenticated operators one operator-specific data record, in which an access or functional right to at least one operator server application is stored such that during the operating and monitoring of a process to be controlled, access or functional rights can be temporarily transferred from one of the operators to the other operator in a secure manner with respect to the security aspects, without which end changes would need to be made in an access and functional rights list via an engineering system.

Abstract: A method for simulation of an automated industrial plant simulated in a plant model divided into a plurality of submodels, where the submodels are modeled with a behavior description comprising a calculation algorithm or a mathematical equation, each submodel is connected into the plant model with at least one submodel, where the plant model or the submodels are translated in preparation for the simulation by a translation run into a form which is executable by a computer system, an execution sequence of the submodels is defined, the submodels are expanded by run time models having a calculation time assigned to a respective submodel, where an overall calculation time of the plant model is derived and graphically presented in the granularity of the calculation times of the submodels based on the execution sequence and the expanded submodels to provide a detection and localization of real-time-critical execution paths in the plant model.

Abstract: A method for operating an automation facility, wherein and to an the automation facility includes a simulation server, which has a simulation framework for simulation of the process behavior of sensors and/or actuators in accordance with a simulation model, where a large number of simulation models is stored in the simulation server, which can be loaded into the simulation framework, includes a simulation interface for simulating the communication behavior of the sensors and/or actuators and for connecting the modelled process behavior to a controller, and includes an operator system for process control and process operation such that it becomes possible to verify, in a simplified manner within the context of what is known as a “Factory Acceptance Test” (FAT) during the test or during the verification of functionality, whether testing was performed with the simulation models provided for this purpose.

Abstract: An operator system for a process control system, wherein the operator system includes an operator server and at least one operator client connected to the operator server, where operators authenticate with respective login data via the at least one operator client or via a plurality of operator clients of the operator system on an authentication server and the authentication server generates, for each of the authenticated operators one operator-specific data record, in which an access or functional right to at least one operator server application is stored such that during the operating and monitoring of a process to be controlled, access or functional rights can be temporarily transferred from one of the operators to the other operator in a secure manner with respect to the security aspects, without which end changes would need to be made in an access and functional rights list via an engineering system.

Abstract: A process control system includes an engineering system for planning automation components into the project for a technical plant, a simulation framework for modeling the process behavior of field devices, a simulation unit for virtualizing the communication behavior of the real field devices and also includes a plant planning tool for planning the process engineering components of the plant into the project by which the commissioning of field-related components and a secure commissioning of a process engineering plant are made possible.