Abstract: A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device with a central database provided for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device. Data are stored in the central database as temporal data and can be read and supplemented by the application programs. Configuration rules, dependent on the life cycle phase of the drive device, for an execution and/or an extent of a configuration change to the configuration of the drive device are defined.

Abstract: A control device of a technical installation receives in normal operation cyclically measurement variables from sensors, and outputs control variables to actuators. In normal operation, the control device stores the history of at least some of the measurement variables at least for a limited time and monitors the measurement variables for the occurrence of a fault. If a fault occurs, the control device transmits a fault message identifying the fault and the history to a knowledge base. In response to the fault message and the histories, the control device receives a reply from the knowledge base and outputs the reply to an operator. Before the normal operation is performed, the control device receives from the operator specifications which allow the control device to defines the histories. In the event of a fault, the control device determines, in dependence on the specifications, which histories to transmit to the knowledge base.

Abstract: A method for designing, configuring and maintaining a drive device with a central database provided for application programs used for designing, configuring and maintaining the drive device. Data are stored in the central database as temporal data and can be read and supplemented by the application programs. Configuration rules, dependent on the life cycle phase of the drive device, for an execution and/or an extent of a configuration change to the configuration of the drive device are defined.

Abstract: A control device of a machine or system data compares access data with a current access authorization. If there is a match, access to user data stored in the control device is permitted. The control device occasionally accepts encrypted verification data from an external computer via a network and stores them encrypted or unencrypted as current verification data, with the current access authorization being derived from the unencrypted current verification data. Verification data already stored in the control device as current verification data when the verification data are accepted are retained as old verification data, while older verification data are overwritten. The accepted access data are compared with an old access authorization derived from the old verification data. An operator can access the user data only if there is a match with the old access authorization.

Abstract: A control device of a technical installation receives in normal operation cyclically measurement variables from sensors, and outputs control variables to actuators. In normal operation, the control device stores the history of at least some of the measurement variables at least for a limited time and monitors the measurement variables for the occurrence of a fault. If a fault occurs, the control device transmits a fault message identifying the fault and the history to a knowledge base. In response to the fault message and the histories, the control device receives a reply from the knowledge base and outputs the reply to an operator. Before the normal operation is performed, the control device receives from the operator specifications which allow the control device to defines the histories. In the event of a fault, the control device determines, in dependence on the specifications, which histories to transmit to the knowledge base.

Abstract: A control device of a machine or system data compares access data with a current access authorization. If there is a match, access to user data stored in the control device is permitted. The control device occasionally accepts encrypted verification data from an external computer via a network and stores them encrypted or unencrypted as current verification data, with the current access authorization being derived from the unencrypted current verification data. Verification data already stored in the control device as current verification data when the verification data are accepted are retained as old verification data, while older verification data are overwritten. The accepted access data are compared with an old access authorization derived from the old verification data. An operator can access the user data only if there is a match with the old access authorization.

Abstract: A damping valve for a vibration damper includes a guide sleeve which slides on the piston rod of a vibration damper. An annular damping valve body which is provided with at least one through-opening is fixed axially by positive engagement on the guide sleeve, and the through-opening is covered at least partly by at least one valve disk which is biased by at least one closing spring which is supported at its end at a spring plate connected to the guide sleeve. The damping valve body and a spring plate which is constructed separate from the guide sleeve form a compression chain between two axially spaced stops of the guide sleeve.

Abstract: A damping valve for a vibration damper includes a guide sleeve which slides on the piston rod of a vibration damper. An annular damping valve body which is provided with at least one through-opening is fixed axially by positive engagement on the guide sleeve, and the through-opening is covered at least partly by at least one valve disk which is biased by at least one closing spring which is supported at its end at a spring plate connected to the guide sleeve. The damping valve body and a spring plate which is constructed separate from the guide sleeve form a compression chain between two axially spaced stops of the guide sleeve.

Abstract: The HMI (human machine interface) device is used for observing and operating an industrial process. It contains a display element (B) at least for process variables (PW) and at least one keypad (TV). At least one key (TV2) of the keypad (TV) is assigned a group of characters (a, b, c, 2, ä, à, æ, å, ). A processing unit (VE) displays another character (2) from the group of assigned characters (a, b, c, 2, . . . ) on the display element (B) in a process variable (PW) for each time the key (TV2) of the keypad (TV) is operated. The processing unit (VE) records, as the current input character (PWS), that character (2) from the group that has been displayed for a predetermined period of time before the key (TV2) is operated anew.