US 2010/0030348 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED CONTROL OF MACHINE OPERATIONS

Abstract

A method and system for a machine tool system are provided. The system includes a spindle, one or more sensor devices configured to determine a value of an operating parameter of the system, and a software application embedded within a control program of the machine tool system. The software application includes a process controller integration module configured to receive the determined operating parameter value from the sensor device, compare the operating parameter value to a predetermined allowable range, and generate one or more alerts using the comparison. The software application also includes a GUI interface module configured to display the alerts in at least one of a graphical and a textual form on a display of the machine tool system. The GUI interface module is further configured to communicate user inputs to the process controller integration module and receive information for user displays from the process controller integration module.

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Dependent claims

A machine tool system comprising:

a spindle configured to rotate about an axis, said spindle configured to receive a tool head interchangeably therein;
one or more sensor devices configured to determine a value of an operating parameter of the system that includes at least one of a speed of rotation of the spindle and a torsional load on the spindle;
a software application embedded within a control program of the machine tool system, said software application comprising:
a process controller integration module communicatively coupled to said sensor device through an input output device of the machine tool system, said process controller module configured to:
receive the determined operating parameter value from the sensor device;
compare the operating parameter value to a predetermined allowable range;
and
generate one or more alerts using the comparison;
and
a GUI interface module communicatively coupled to said process controller integration module, said GUI interface module configured to display the one or more alerts in at least one of a graphical and a textual form on a display of the machine tool system, said GUI interface module further configured to communicate user inputs to said process controller integration module and receive information for user displays from said process controller integration module.

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A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, said computer program comprising a code segment that configures a processor to control a machining operation on a workpiece by a machine tool wherein the code segment executes as an application embedded within a controller of the machine tool, said code segment further configures the processor to:

receive an operating parameter of the machine tool from a machine tool sensor by the application embedded within a controller of the turning tool;
compare in the embedded application, the received operating parameter to at least one of a respective first predetermined allowable range and a second predetermined allowable range;
generate by the embedded application, at least one of a first alert if the received operating parameter exceeds the first predetermined allowable range for a first predetermined period of time and a second alert if the received operating parameter exceeds the second predetermined allowable range for a second predetermined period of time;
and
output at least one of the first alert and the second alert through a resource of the machine tool.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for integrated control of machine operations

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