Production system, data transmission method, and information storage medium
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
InventorsTakeshi Nagata, Takahiko Suzuki
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Abstract
Provided is a production system including: a first industrial machine configured to control a second industrial machine; and circuitry configured to acquire data relating to an operation of at least one of the first industrial machine or the second industrial machine, wherein the first industrial machine comprises a synchronous area regularly subjected to synchronization and an asynchronous area different from the synchronous area, and wherein the first industrial machine is configured to: write the data into the asynchronous area; and transmit the data written in the asynchronous area to an external device.
Claims19
A production system, comprising:
- a first industrial machine configured to control a second industrial machine;
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- circuitry configured to acquire data relating to an operation of at least one of the first industrial machine or the second industrial machine,
- wherein the first industrial machine comprises a synchronous area regularly subjected to synchronization and an asynchronous area different from the synchronous area, and
- wherein the first industrial machine is configured to:
- write the data into the asynchronous area;
- transmit the data written in the asynchronous area to an external device,
- determine whether the writing of the data is completed;
- transmit a predetermined notification to the external device when it is determined that the writing of the data is completed,
- wherein the external device is configured to transmit a predetermined request to the first industrial machine when the external device receives the predetermined notification, and
- wherein the first industrial machine is configured to transmit the data to the external device when the predetermined request is received.
A data transmission method, comprising:
- acquiring data relating to an operation of at least one of a first industrial machine configured to control a second industrial machine or the second industrial machine, the first industrial machine comprising a synchronous area regularly subjected to synchronization and an asynchronous area different from the synchronous area;
- writing the data into the asynchronous area;
- transmitting the data written in the asynchronous area to an external device
- determining whether the writing of the data is completed;
- transmitting a predetermined notification to the external device when it is determined that the writing of the data is completed,
- wherein the external device is configured to transmit a predetermined request to the first industrial machine when the external device receives the predetermined notification, and
- wherein the first industrial machine is configured to transmit the data to the external device when the predetermined request is received.
A non-transitory computer readable information storage medium storing a program for causing a first industrial machine configured to:
- control a second industrial machine, the first industrial machine comprising a synchronous area regularly subjected to synchronization and an asynchronous area different from the synchronous area, to transmit, to an external device, data relating to an operation of at least one of the first industrial machine or the second industrial machine, the data being written in the asynchronous area,
- determine whether writing of the data is completed;
- transmit a predetermined notification to the external device when it is determined that the writing of the data is completed,
- wherein the external device is configured to transmit a predetermined request to the first industrial machine when the external device receives the predetermined notification, and
- wherein the first industrial machine is configured to transmit the data to the external device when the predetermined request is received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.