Abstract: A method and an automation component for identifying a process-disrupting automation component in an industrial automation assembly, wherein a process disruption is determined in a first automation component and examined by a first local analysis device, where an automation component arranged upstream and/or an automation component arranged downstream is first determined by each automation component, an interrogation message is sent from a first automation component to a second automation component and the same interrogation message or a further interrogation message is recursively sent by the second automation component to a third automation component arranged upstream or downstream of the second automation component and processed, where in the event of a locally determined disruption, the relevant automation component sends a response message, which is back-propagated to the origin and signaled such that a decentralized error analysis becomes possible, even with a changing system topology, without the need

Abstract: A battery pack having a plurality of reinforcing elements disposed between cell holders and separating the cell connectors of the battery pack. Thereby, the battery pack according to the invention provides improved protection against short circuits during manufacture.

Abstract: A method for computer-aided processing of state messages in an automation installation, wherein state messages are generated by components and detected with their generation points in time, where causative states present at the generation point of the state message or beforehand in other components are determined for a multiplicity of state messages of a respective component and the current state in the generated state message, where the propagation time between occurrence of the respective causative state and the generation point of the state message is calculated for each causative state, where groups are formed from the causative states, where in a respective group all causative states have at least the common feature that they were determined for the same current state in the respective component, and where at least one statistical parameter is determined from the propagation times which belong to the causative states of the same group and stored.

Abstract: The invention relates to an edge device (10) and to a method for operating an edge device (10), wherein the edge device (10) is supplemented by a unikernel manager (52) and a base unikernel (54), wherein the unikernel manager (52) acts as a means at least for starting and stopping a unikernel (40-46) installed on the edge device (10), and wherein the base unikernel (54), in the form of a standalone unikernel, comprises the base functionality of the edge device (10).

Abstract: A configuration dataset indicative of a setting of one or more operational policies of a control of an industrial field device and a measurement dataset indicative of an event associated with the industrial field device is read from a distributed database. An analysis of the measurement dataset is performed, depending on the configuration dataset.

Abstract: A measurement dataset indicative of operational characteristics of an industrial field device is obtained. In an embodiment, based on the measurement dataset, a performance indicator dataset including one or more figures of merit of the operational characteristics is determined and storage of the performance indicator dataset in a distributed database and storage of the measurement dataset in a non-distributed database is triggered.

Abstract: A mining node of an infrastructure of a distributed database includes a control circuitry. In an embodiment, the control circuitry is configured to: obtain a measurement dataset indicative of one or more observables of an event, the measurement dataset including processed raw data samples; perform a comparison between the measurement dataset and a reference dataset, the reference dataset including at least one of one or more predefined constraints associated with the event or a further measurement dataset indicative of one or more further observables of the event; and, depending on a result of the comparison, selectively trigger one or more validation measures for the measurement dataset, the one or more validation measures being implemented at the distributed database.

Abstract: A method for computer-aided processing of state messages in an automation installation, wherein state messages are generated by components and detected with their generation points in time, where causative states present at the generation point of the state message or beforehand in other components are determined for a multiplicity of state messages of a respective component and the current state in the generated state message, where the propagation time between occurrence of the respective causative state and the generation point of the state message is calculated for each causative state, where groups are formed from the causative states, where in a respective group all causative states have at least the common feature that they were determined for the same current state in the respective component, and where at least one statistical parameter is determined from the propagation times which belong to the causative states of the same group and stored.

Abstract: The invention relates to an edge device (10) and to a method for operating an edge device (10), wherein the edge device (10) is supplemented by a unikernel manager (52) and a base unikernel (54), wherein the unikernel manager (52) acts as a means at least for starting and stopping a unikernel (40-46) installed on the edge device (10), and wherein the base unikernel (54), in the form of a standalone unikernel, comprises the base functionality of the edge device (10).

Abstract: A method for connecting an Internet-of-Things device to a cloud service, wherein establishment of contact to a cloud service occurs via a contact device that includes an apparatus for detecting image and/or acoustic information which is orientated such that an apparatus for emitting optical and/or acoustic signals of the Internet-of-Things device is detectable optically and/or acoustically, transfer of device information of the Internet-of-Things device to an onboarding service of the cloud service is achieved via the apparatus for emitting the optical and/or acoustic signals and via the contact device, transfer of network configuration data to the onboarding service of the cloud service is performed via the contact device, a pairing connectivity file is created by the onboarding service, transfer of the pairing connectivity file to the Internet-of-Things device occurs via the contact device, and creation of the connection occurs from the Internet-of-Things device to the cloud service.

Abstract: In a method for configuring a communication between a first computer with an automation engineering software and a second computer which is connected in a proprietary automation network, the first computer is run in a cloud environment. The communication between the first computer and the second computer is carried out by a tunnel protocol for establishing a tunnel connection, and a configuration of the tunnel connection is automatically configured by determining information heuristically.

Abstract: An electronic display apparatus comprising a control device and an electronic display panel that can be turned off by the control device. In order to support an energy-saving state in which information can continue to be displayed at least to a certain extent, an electrochromic display is additionally provided that is switchable into different display states by the control device. The invention furthermore relates to an installation appertaining to automation technology, and to a method for operating an electronic display apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic display apparatus comprising a control device and an electronic display panel that can be turned off by the control device. In order to support an energy-saving state in which information can continue to be displayed at least to a certain extent, an electrochromic display is additionally provided that is switchable into different display states by the control device. The invention furthermore relates to an installation appertaining to automation technology, and to a method for operating an electronic display apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for protecting source code, in particular source code containing intellectual property. Managed source code which is to be protected is deflected into a module in which native code is created for the source code. In addition, native facades are created for all the modules referenced with the module and a managed facade for the module with the native code.

Abstract: In a process for extraction of biological material, in particular of proteins or peptides, from a first aqueous solution (1) to a second aqueous solution (2), a porous membrane (3) is arranged between the aqueous solutions (1, 2). At least one of the aqueous solutions (1) is now modified by addition of a biocompatible and surface-active agent in such a way that the wetting behaviour of the two liquid phases on the membrane and in the pores of the latter differs significantly. In this way, membrane extraction of biological material from a first aqueous solution (1) to a second aqueous solution (2) is made possible in a simple and efficient manner. The process is easy to carry out and can be used on an industrial scale.

Abstract: Individual solar cells are disposed in a stacked-cell solar module alternately as p-i-n, n-i-p, p-i-n and so on, the solar-cell stack is patterned in strip-like fashion and the interconnection is carried out by means of comb-like electrode structures which connect the p-type sides of the solar cells of a stack to the n-type sides of the solar cells of the adjacent stack. The solar module, which can be produced in integrated form is connected in parallel within a stack and in series between the stacks. By simply repeating the manufacturing steps, stacks can be built in this way from two or more solar cells, which have a reduced light aging compared with known solar modules.

Abstract: A method for eroding material, particularly material in a thin-film structure, that includes at least one thin-film arranged over at least one transparent layer, includes irradiating the thin-film with a laser pulse through the transparent layer. The laser pulse has a wavelength in the absorption region of the thin-film. The irradiated thin-film region, together with any layers lying above the thin-film region, are popped off, without any residue, from the transparent layer.