System and method for monitoring tooling activities
AssigneeProgressive Components International Corporation
InventorGlenn Starkey
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Abstract
An apparatus or system and method or process for displaying tool or die data or other tool or processing information on a display window of a webpage. A method for displaying tool data from a reciprocating tool includes positioning a monitor with respect to the reciprocating tool and the monitor recording data from the reciprocating tool. The data is communicated and then stored in a remote data storage location as stored tool data. The stored tool data is processed and then displayed, for example in the window of the webpage.
Claims21
1-18. (canceled)
A system for displaying processed data from a mold in a press, the device comprising:
- a monitor configured to mount within a pocket formed within the mold, and the monitor specifically corresponding to the mold, the monitor including a processor and an internal memory connected to the processor, wherein the monitor records data from the mold and the processor converts the data from input data to output data comprising at least one of operating information of the mold, maintenance information of the mold, performance of the mold, activity of the mold, drawings of the mold and/or set up information of the mold;
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- a transmitter configured to mount directly to an outer surface of the mold or the press, wherein the transmitter is in communication with the monitor via a wired connection with the monitor, wherein the transmitter communicates the output data via a wireless transmission by the transmitter over a network to a data processor remotely located with respect to the monitor and the transmitter.
A system for displaying processed data from molds, each of the molds in a corresponding one of a plurality of presses, the system comprising:
- a plurality of monitors each mountable to a corresponding one of the molds, wherein each of the monitors records data from the corresponding one of the molds and includes an internal memory connected to a processor that converts the data from input data to output data, wherein the output data comprises at least one of operating information of the mold, maintenance information of the mold, performance of the mold, activity of the mold, drawings of the mold and/or set up information of the mold;
- a plurality of transmitters each mountable directly to an outer surface of a corresponding one of the molds or the presses, wherein each of the transmitters is in communication with a corresponding one of the monitors via a wired connection;
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- at least one base station in combination with the plurality of transmitters, wherein each of the transmitters communicates the output data via a wireless transmission to the at least one base station and the at least one base station communicates the output data via a wireless transmission over a network to a data processor remotely located with respect to the monitors and the transmitters.
A system for displaying processed data from molds, each of the molds in a corresponding one of a plurality of presses, the system comprising:
- a first monitor mountable directly to and within a pocket of a first mold and the first monitor specifically corresponding to the first mold;
- a second monitor mountable directly to and within a pocket of a second mold and the second monitor specifically corresponding to the second mold;
- a first transmitter mountable directly to a first press including the first mold, the first transmitter in communication with the first monitor via a wired connection with the first monitor;
- a second transmitter mountable directly to a second press including the second mold, the second transmitter in communication with the second monitor via a wired connection with the second monitor;
- each of the first and second monitors having a processor and an internal memory connected to the processor, wherein the first monitor records data from the first mold and a first processor converts the data from first input data to first output data, and the second monitor records data from the second mold and a second processor converts the data from second input data to second output data;
- encoded instructions on a recordable medium and executable at a remote location from the first and second monitors and configured to be executed by a data processor to create a graphical user interface displaying the processed data as a desired result viewable at the graphical user interface located remotely with respect to the first and second monitors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.