Automation tool and method for supporting planning and producing an automated technical process

摘要

An automation tool and a method for supporting the planning and implementation of an automated technical process (10), which uses this automation tool, are provided. The automation tool has access to a library (28) containing a plurality of predefined basic object types (38-42; 59-63; 90-94) associated with a functionality of a technical process (10). The automation tool has a functionality (29) for generating and interlinking instances of the basic object types (38-42; 59-63; 90-94) and a functionality (32) for deriving structural information (30, 31) relative to the technical process (10) from the type information of each instantiated basic object type (38-42; 59-63; 90-94).