Operation management system for directly displaying work instruction based on operation management information on machine tool
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorMasaki TANABE
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Abstract
An operation management system is constituted by a management server and a plurality of machine tools connected to each other via a network. The management server manages the operation status of each of the machine tools and the work schedule of an operator conducting work with the machine tools, specifies a machine tool to be used by the operator in next work based on notifications from the machine tools and the work schedule of the operator, and instructs each of the machine tools to produce a display for guiding the operator to the specified machine tool.
Claims4
An operation management system in which a plurality of machine tools that operates based on an operation by an operator are connected to a management server via a network, wherein
- the management server includes
- a schedule information storage unit that stores schedule information representing information on a work schedule of the operator conducting work with the machine tools,
- a notification analysis unit that analyzes notifications transmitted from the machine tools,
- a schedule management unit that specifies a machine tool to be used by the operator in a next work process among the plurality of machine tools based on analysis results of the notifications analyzed by the notification analysis unit and the schedule information, and
- a guide information generation unit that generates guide information for guiding the operator to the machine tool specified by the schedule management unit, and transmits the generated guide information to one or more machine tools that are under the charge of the operator among the plurality of machine tools, and
- each of the plurality of machine tools includes
- a guide information analysis unit that analyzes the guide information transmitted from the management server to generate information for guiding the operator to the machine tool to be used in the next work process,
- a display unit that displays the information for guiding the operator to the machine tool to be used in the next work process, and
- a notification generation unit that monitors the operation by the operator and transmits a notification representing a status of the work by the operator to the management server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.