Processing Workpieces on Machine Tools
AssigneeTRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
InventorsStefan Buettner, Wolfgang Laib, Ignazio Spagnuolo
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Abstract
Methods and related computer program products for processing a workpiece on a machine tool, including changing at least one control parameter of the machine tool based on a quantity of waste and/or good components discharged from the machine tool during processing of the workpiece, the at least one control parameter causing a change of at least one waste and/or good component container of the machine tool, wherein the quantity of waste and/or good components generated as a function of time during processing of the workpiece is determined before processing of the workpiece begins, and is stored in a numerical control program of the machine tool.
Claims11
A method of processing a workpiece on a machine tool, comprising changing at least one control parameter of the machine tool based on a quantity of waste and/or good components discharged from the machine tool during processing of the workpiece, the at least one control parameter causing a change of at least one waste and/or good component container of the machine tool,
- wherein the quantity of waste and/or good components generated as a function of time during processing of the workpiece is determined before processing of the workpiece begins, and is stored in a numerical control program of the machine tool.
A computer program product, encoded on one or more computer storage media, comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising changing at least one control parameter of a machine tool based on a quantity of waste and/or good components discharged from the machine tool during processing of a workpiece, the at least one control parameter causing a change of at least one waste and/or good component container of the machine tool, wherein the quantity of waste and/or good components generated as a function of time during processing of the workpiece is determined before processing of the workpiece begins, and is stored in a numerical control program of the machine tool.
A method of processing a workpiece on a machine tool, comprising:
- determining a quantity of waste and/or good components generated as a function of time during processing of the workpiece;
- storing the quantity of waste and/or good components generated as a function of time in a numerical control program of the machine tool;
- using the machine tool to process the workpiece, wherein processing the workpiece comprises discharging waste and/or good components;
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- changing at least one control parameter of the machine tool based on a quantity of waste and/or good components discharged from the machine tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.