METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TIME-CRITICAL CONTROL APPLICATIONS

Time-critical control applications are provided by way of flow control components (113, 123, 133) that are each able to be loaded into a flow control environment (112, 122, 132) formed by way of a server device (101-103) and executed there. The control applications each periodically determine, from periodically acquired measured and/or state variables (12), manipulated variables (11) for a process to be controlled or regulated. A plurality of mutually redundant flow control components (113, 123, 123) are executed in parallel with one another. The mutually redundant flow control components (113, 123, 133) determine the manipulated variables (11) for a respective process cycle that follows a respective acquisition time of the measured and/or state variables (12) as soon as a majority of the mutually redundant flow control components signal error-free presence of the measured and/or state variables for the respective acquisition time. As an alternative or in addition, the determined manipulated variables are transmitted, together with a sequence number assigned to the respective process cycle, to actuators (320) and/or control units (31-32).