METHOD AND APPLIANCE FOR PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS AND TO GENERATE CONFIGURATION DATA FROM A CENTRALIZED SERVER.

摘要

A system comprising a server (50), a network (35), at least one client device (30) having a network interface application, wherein the server is in communication with at least one client device (30 ) through the network (35); an engineering tool (77) that resides on the server (50) and that is accessible by at least one client device (30) through the network, where the engineering tool works in the network interface application in at least one client device (30); a memory (58) associated with the server (50) and at least one programmable controller (40); characterized in that the server (50) is a central server; because the engineering tool (77) is a tool for generating programming code for programmable controllers (40) using a programming language; and because the programming code and the configuration data generated with the engineering tool are stored in the memory (58) associated with the central server and are downloaded to an objective programmable controller (40).