Control device
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorShinichi Ozeki
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Abstract
A control device includes a setting detection unit that detects a setting operation on a value of a setting item related to control of the industrial machine and a notification unit configured to notify information related to the setting operation. The setting detection unit can detect a setting operation caused by execution of an MDI program, a setting operation caused by execution of a machining program, a setting operation caused by an external signal, and a setting operation caused by a higher-level management server. The notification unit provides a notification using a guidance message, a popup window, voice, an external signal, or information transmission via a network.
Claims6
A control device for controlling an industrial machine, the control device comprising a processor configured to:
- detect a setting operation on a value of a setting item related to control of the industrial machine;
- provide notification information related to the setting operation;
- and
- detect whether or not the information related to the setting operation detected by the processor is displayed on a display screen of the control device,
- wherein when the processor detects that the information related to the setting operation is not displayed on the display screen, the processor provides the notification information related to the setting operation on the display screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.