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Method for operating an assembly for processing liquid food products

AssigneeKrones AG

InventorFelix Wildsfeuer

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Abstract

Provided is a method for operating an assembly for processing liquid food products, where the operation of the assembly comprises automatically executable steps and steps to be executed manually for various elements of the assembly, where machine readable pieces of information are applied to at least one of the various elements the machine-readable pieces of information identifying the respective element, where the steps to be executed manually are in a processing unit each associated with an execution status which is set to “executed” under the condition that the machine-readable pieces of information are read out at at least one predetermined element by way of a mobile terminal, and where a control device controls the automatically executable steps taking into account the execution status.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method for operating an assembly for processing liquid food products, comprising:

reading, via a mobile terminal, machine-readable pieces of information attached to various elements forming the assembly for processing liquid food products, the machine-readable pieces of information identifying at least one of the various elements,
confirming that predetermined manual steps for assembling or adjusting the various elements have been executed by reading out the machine-readable pieces of information on at least one predetermined element of the various elements by way of the mobile terminal,
updating a display on the mobile terminal to indicate an execution status of the at least one predetermined element of the various elements,
transmitting the execution status of the at least one predetermined element of the various elements to a control device, and
automatically executing, via the control device, the automatically executable steps, where the automatic execution takes into account an execution status of the steps to be manually executed, where if the execution status of the steps to be manually executed is set to “not executed” or “executed incorrectly”, the control device prevents the automatically executable steps from starting.

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Facts

Application: 16/464,216Filed 13 Jul 2017
Priority: DE 10 2016 223 41125 Nov 2016
Published: US 2019/0384264 A119 Dec 2019
Granted: 8 Jun 2021
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Classification9 codes

G05B 19/4155
Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to…
G06Q 10/06
Administration; Management: resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation…
G06K 7/1413
The method being specifically adapted for the type of code: 1D bar codes
G06K 7/1417
The method being specifically adapted for the type of code: 2D bar codes

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