Method for monitoring and planning a production cell and network management system for a production cell

摘要

The invention relates to a method for monitoring and scheduling a production cell with a plurality of devices, between which data are exchanged, a first production cell being characterized by a hardware configuration and a software configuration and by data exchanged between the devices, comprising the following steps: a ) Acquiring information regarding the hardware and software configuration at a particular time and with respect to the exchanged data at the same particular time as properties of the first production cell; b) creating at least one virtual, identical image (at least part of the first production cell using the acquired information; c) supplying data to be processed to the virtual image of the production cell at a time after the determined time; d) processing the data to be processed by the virtual image of the first production cell; e) Analysis of the functioning of the virtual image of the production cell and use of the results for the first or another production cell for monitoring or / and planning. The invention further relates to a corresponding network management system.