Abstract: A method for power station simulation, particularly for test purposes, by means of a piece of distributed simulation hardware that includes one or more emulation units, each having at least one emulation component, and also a simulation unit having a process model, where the method includes operating the emulation components cyclically with a common cycle time, using a respective cycle to form a time stamp, and automatically providing a data packet that is saved by each emulation component with the respective time stamp upon an appropriate command, wherein the data of the data packet are organized in accordance with a prescribed format and comprise a signal map.

Abstract: An emulator, a system, and a method for emulating at least one controller of at least one technical facility, wherein an emulator is extended by at least one simulation of an operating system functionality and by a simulation of at least one system functional building block of the controller for high-availability communication to specify an emulation solution which is able to communicate with high reliability with real components from the automation environment through at least one network card and/or a communications processor and at least one communications layer for producing the high-availability communication. The system is networked with the technical facility following the loading of a facility configuration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a developer device for designing a control system comprising automation software and automation hardware for the automatic operation of a process. The designing device comprises a design module which is embodied in order to design the automatic software, an engineering module which is connected to the design module in order to receive the automation software, and which is configured in order to project the automation hardware based on the automation software and to produce projection data on the automation hardware, and a simulation module for simulating the automation software and the processes, and which is connected to the engineering module which is used to receive the projection data, in addition to the design module which is used to transfer simulated process data.