State change management system for manufacturing cell in cell control system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorHideo Ogino
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Abstract
A state change management system of a manufacturing cell in a cell control system receives, from the manufacturing cell, event information items in different forms generated in multiple manufacturing machines constituting a manufacturing cell, via a communication device, to thereby monitor the changes in the states of the multiple manufacturing machines. Moreover, the state change management system converts the received event information items in the different forms into a standardized form, and outputs the event information items in the standardized form to a production planning device that performs production planning of a product manufactured by the manufacturing cell via the communication device.
Claims6
A state change management system of a manufacturing cell in a cell control system, wherein
- the cell control system is connected via a communication device to a manufacturing cell composed of multiple manufacturing machines including at least one of a robot, a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), and a machine tool for manufacturing a product, and is connected via the communication device to a computer that performs production planning of the product manufactured by the manufacturing cell, thereby carrying out manufacturing management by transmission and reception of manufacturing information with the manufacturing cell and the computer, and
- the state change management system comprises:
- a processor configured to
- receive, from the manufacturing cell, event information items in different forms generated from the multiple manufacturing machines, the event information items including at least one of an alarm, a warning and a change in machining condition,
- determine whether or not there is a state change in the multiple manufacturing machines based on the received event information items,
- execute a process of converting the received event information items in the different forms into a standardized form, the process including a process of standardizing formats and a process of standardizing languages, and
- output event information in the standardized form to the computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.