Topology Generator

Abstract

A fundamental question of last decade’s research in academia and industry is the Automation of Automation. Aiming at (semi-)automatic engineering of automation systems, a lot of concepts have been developed. Regarding applicability, those algorithms highly depend on the availability of plant descriptions in a computer-interpretable form. Because today those are often not present during automation engineering, especially for engineering tasks during operation and modernization of brown-field plants, alternatives have to be found for gathering the required information. This contribution presents a method to extract the required information from the human machine interface. In order to increase applicability of Automation of Automation, the gathered information is stored in a topology model, making Automation of Automation wider applicable for industry.