A power tool having a digital control unit is provided, an interface of the digital control unit being switchable between standard operation and communication operation. In communication operation, operating data of the power tool are able to be transmitted via the interface.

An engineering system for engineering, programming and/or configuring industrial automation components and particularly engineering, programming and/or configuring security related features of automation components in automation projects, automation components, automation component databases, receiving tools, a computer program, a data carrier signal and a method for facilitating the provision of automation component configurations for automation components of an industrial automation project, wherein the method especially focuses on security aspects of automation projects, and wherein automation component description data comprising functionality parameters for configuring functionality of the automation components and security parameters for configuring security functions of the automation components are determined and, based on the industrial automation project, a functionality parameter setting for the functionality parameters and a security parameter setting for the security parameters is determined To facilitate the implementation of security parameter settings in engineering projects to achieve high and solution wide security.

The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting data in a control system of a machine, wherein the control system comprises a mediator unit, at least one client unit and at least one provider unit, wherein the mediator unit is respectively connected to the at least one client unit and to the at least one provider unit in a data-transmitting manner, wherein access paths to data stored in the at least one provider unit are stored in the mediator unit, wherein, in order to transmit data between a transmitting client unit of the at least one client unit and a receiver provider unit of the at least one provider unit, a message transmitted from the transmitting client unit is received by the mediator unit and is transmitted to the receiver provider unit on the basis of the stored access paths.

The disclosure relates to a method for transmitting data in a control system of a machine, wherein the control system comprises a mediator unit, at least one client unit and at least one provider unit, wherein the mediator unit is respectively connected to the at least one client unit and to the at least one provider unit in a data-transmitting manner, wherein access paths to data stored in the at least one provider unit are stored in the mediator unit, wherein, in order to transmit data between a transmitting client unit of the at least one client unit and a receiver provider unit of the at least one provider unit, a message transmitted from the transmitting client unit is received by the mediator unit and is transmitted to the receiver provider unit on the basis of the stored access paths.