Selecting device, selecting method, and program
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorMasakazu SAGASAKI
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Abstract
A selecting device causes a machine tool, which machines a workpiece from a bar material, to select another workpiece that the machine tool can machine from a leftover material, which is a remaining part of the bar material being machined, when a workpiece to be machined is not machinable from the leftover material. The selecting device includes: a selecting unit that refers to mountable tool data indicating a tool that can be mounted on a mount position of the machine tool, and causes the machine tool to select another workpiece that is machinable by the tool that can be mounted on the machine tool, in selecting another workpiece to be machined by the machine tool from the leftover material.
Claims18
A selecting device that causes a machine tool, which machines a workpiece from a bar material, to select another workpiece that the machine tool can machine from a leftover material, which is a remaining part of the bar material being machined, when a workpiece to be machined is not machinable from the leftover material, the selecting device comprising:
- selecting circuitry to refer to mountable tool data indicating a tool that can be mounted on a mount position of the machine tool, and cause the machine tool to select another workpiece that is machinable by the tool that can be mounted on the machine tool, in selecting another workpiece to be machined by the machine tool from the leftover material.
A selecting method comprising:
- determining whether or not a workpiece to be machined by a machine tool is machinable based on a length of a leftover material of a bar material;
- and
- when it is determined that the workpiece to be machined is not machinable, causing the machine tool to select a workpiece that is machinable from the leftover material from among other workpieces based on mountable tool data indicating a tool that can be mounted on a mount position of the machine tool.
A program causing a computer to execute:
- a step of determining whether or not a workpiece to be machined by a machine tool is machinable based on a length of a leftover material of a bar material;
- and
- when it is determined that the workpiece to be machined is not machinable, a step of causing the machine tool to select a workpiece that is machinable from the leftover material from among other workpieces based on mountable tool data indicating a tool mounted on a mount position of the machine tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.