Assembly and method for controlling and monitoring a machine for the tobacco processing industry

摘要

The arrangement has control units (10, 11) and a display unit (19) connected together by a machine internal network (18) for transmission of control or monitoring signals. An external controller (21) is connected with the internal network over an interface (22). The interface, the control units, the display unit and/or the controller are formed for cyclic transmission of a predetermined selection of the signals between the control unit and/or the display unit and the controller. Clock generators control the transmission of the selection of the signals at a given point of time. The control units are designed as software or hardware based programmable shell processing support (SPS) controller or a hardware-based programmable controller. The machine internal network is designed as a machine controller bus. An independent claim is also included for a method for controlling and monitoring a machine and/or machine combination of a tobacco-processing industry.