Method for displaying workpiece-illustrations for supporting a sorting process

A method for displaying a sequence of workpiece-illustrations and/or order information for supporting a sorting process during manufacturing of workpieces with a manufacturing system, the manufacturing system including a machine tool control system in which workpiece image data and/or order data associated with each of the workpieces are stored as part of a machine-readable processing plan, wherein for each workpiece, the workpiece image data include an illustration based on geometry data of the workpieces to be manufactured, and the order data include characteristic data of a manufacturing order associated with the workpiece;

• a flatbed machine tool with which the workpieces are manufactured from a plate-shaped starting material according to the machine-readable processing plan, a conveyor system that transports the workpieces as cut material to a sorting point for sorting the workpieces, the cut material being conveyed in a plate-like arrangement by the conveyor system;
• and a display unit with a processor for receiving data to be output on a monitor of the display unit, wherein the monitor is arranged in the area of the conveyor system, the method comprising:
• transporting manufactured workpieces with the conveyor system to the sorting point according to a sequence and arrangement specified by the processing plan;
• receiving, in the processor of the display unit, workpiece image data and/or order data provided by the machine tool control system for the workpieces transported to the sorting point;
• and
• displaying the workpiece image data and/or the order data on the monitor of the display unit in a sequence and/or an arrangement such that the sequence and/or the arrangement of the workpiece image data and/or the order data corresponds to the sequence and/or the arrangement of the workpieces transported from the conveyor system to the sorting point.