Production plant for making and packing articles
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsDaniele Bergo, Paolo Ravelli, Mario Spatafora
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Abstract
Production plant featuring automatic making and packing machines, each of which has a relevant control unit; a collection computer awaits receipt of information packages transmitted independently and asynchronously by the control units over a first communication network; and the collection computer organizes and processes the information packages received from the control units to generate overall data accessible over a second communication network, with respect to which the collection computer acts as a server.
Claims21
1) Production plant for making and packing articles and comprising automatic making and packing machines (2), each of which has a relevant control unit (3) for controlling all the operating and monitoring devices of the automatic machine (2) to process and memorize data relative to operation of the automatic machine (2) as a whole;
- the production plant (1) further comprising a collection computer (9), a first communication network (5;
- 8) for connecting the control units (3) to the collection computer (9), and a second communication network (8) connected to the collection computer (9);
- the production plant (1) being characterized in that the collection computer (9) awaits receipt of information packages (P) transmitted independently and asynchronously by the control unit (3) over the first communication network (5;
- 8), the collection computer (9) processes and organizes the information packages (P) received from the control units (3) to generate overall data (D), and the collection computer (9) acts as a server in the second communication network (8) to permit access to said overall data (D) over the second communication network (8).
12) Production plant for making and packing articles and comprising a number of automatic machines (2), each of which has a respective control unit (3) for controlling all the operating and monitoring devices of the automatic machine (2) and operating according to its own management software and its own set of configuration parameters;
- the control units (3) being connected by a first communication network (5;
- 8) to a central collection computer (9);
- and the production plant (1) being characterized in that said collection computer (9) keeps, for each said control unit (3), an updated copy of the respective management software and respective set of configuration parameters;
- and said collection computer (9) is able to transfer its own copy of the relative management software and relative set of configuration parameters to each control unit (3).
18) Production plant for making and packing articles and comprising automatic making and packing machines (2), each of which has a relevant control unit (3) for controlling all the operating and monitoring devices of the automatic machine (2) to process and memorize data relative to operation of the automatic machine (2) as a whole;
- the production plant (1) further comprising a collection computer (9), a first communication network (5;
- 8) for connecting the control units (3) to the collection computer (9) in order to communicate to the collection computer (9) data relative to their own operation;
- the production plant (1) being characterized in comprising at least one second communication network (8) used by the collection computer (9) to report important events to a given group of users by means of electronic mail messages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.