公开(公告)号：US20230324870A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-12

申请号：US17912555

申请日：2021-02-25

Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Inventor： Jan GÖTZ ,  Ludwig Andreas MITTERMEIER ,  Harald MÜLLER ,  Sreenath PREMNADH

IPC: G05B19/05

CPC classification number: G05B19/056 ,  G05B19/052 ,  G05B2219/13125

Abstract: A method and to assembly for managing an automation program for an industrial automation platform, wherein the automation program is transferred to the automation platform and execution of the automation program is controlled, where in a first step, the automation program or a reference to the automation program is transferred from a Kubernetes master a virtual kubelet, in a second step, the transferred or referenced automation program is transferred to the industrial automation platform via a provider interface of the virtual kubelet, and in a third step, the execution of the transferred automation program on the industrial automation platform is controlled, where via the provider interface, control commands are transferred to the industrial automation platform and acknowledgement messages of the industrial automation platform are received and processed or forwarded to a control entity, such that automation programs can be managed, distributed and run using container orchestration systems.