Communication device and method for controlling communication device
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorYoshifumi Tanimoto
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Abstract
A communication device includes a communicator that performs communication via a network, IO ports that connect with a manufacturing apparatus, a packet monitor that monitors, via the communicator, packet data communicated to and from the manufacturing apparatus via the network, an IO monitor that monitors states of the IO ports, and a controller configured or programmed to transmit monitoring information to a transportation apparatus via the communicator, the transportation apparatus transporting a processing target, and the monitoring information being obtained through the monitoring performed by the packet monitor and the IO monitor.
Claims8
A communication device to be connected with a manufacturing apparatus, the communication device comprising:
- a communicator that performs communication via a network;
- at least one IO port that connects with the manufacturing apparatus;
- a packet monitor that monitors, via the communicator, packet data communicated to and from the manufacturing apparatus via the network;
- an IO monitor that monitors a state of the at least one IO port;
- and
- a controller configured or programmed to transmit monitoring information to a transportation apparatus via the communicator;
- wherein
- the transportation apparatus is an apparatus that transports a processing target to and/or from the manufacturing apparatus;
- and
- the monitoring information is obtained through the monitoring performed by the packet monitor and the IO monitor.
A method for controlling a communication device including a communicator that performs communication via a network, and at least one IO port that connects with a manufacturing apparatus, the method comprising:
- monitoring, via the communicator, packet data communicated to and from the manufacturing apparatus via the network;
- monitoring a state of the at least one IO port;
- and
- transmitting monitoring information to a transportation apparatus via the communicator, the transportation apparatus being an apparatus that transports a processing target to and/or from the manufacturing apparatus, the monitoring information being obtained through the monitoring of packet data and the monitoring of a state of the at least one IO port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.