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AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsMichael Hartmann, Hans Rudolph, Henry Hoppe, Christian-Andreas Winkler
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The invention relates to a system (100, 200, 300, 500) for process automation of a manufacturing plant, wherein the claimed system (300) for monitoring a manufacturing plant comprises:—a plurality of machines (140) of the manufacturing plant,—a plant machinery database (128, 548) comprising control parameters for the machines and comprising spatial information and/or status information of physical objects, the physical objects being the machines and/or objects processed by the machines;—an automation system (103) for automatically operating the machines in accordance with the control parameters in the plant machinery database;—an update engine (160) configured to continuously receive from a plurality of sensors (162) spatial information and/or status information of the physical objects during an on-going manufacturing process and to update the plant machinery database with the received information;—a visualization database (130) comprising a sub-set of the data of the plant-machinery database;—a replication module (150) configured to continuously select data of the plant machinery database which enables generation of a digital visual representation of the one or more physical objects, whereby the selected data is free of the control parameters, and to replicate only the selected data to the visualization database;—a visualization engine (134) (a software program or a set of interoperable software programs) configured to generate a digital visual representation of the one or more physical objects as a function of the data in the visualization database;—a display device (154, 108) configured to display the visual representation of the one or more physical objects to a user to enable the user to monitor the manufacturing process.
A system for monitoring a manufacturing plant comprising:
The system of clause 3, wherein the visualization engine is configured to generate the digital visual representation of the one or more physical objects such that the remote user sees other ones of the machines of the plant from the perspective of the robot acting as the remote user's physical representation at the plant, and wherein the display device are VR glasses worn by the remote user having submitted the robot control request.
The system of clause 11, wherein the display device is VR glasses or AR glasses worn by a user, and wherein the visualization database comprises, for at least one of the machines, multiple different 2D or 3D models respectively assigned to different user roles, wherein the visualization engine is configured to identify the one of the 2D or 3D models assigned to the user role of the user wearing the display device and to use the identified 2D or 3D model for generating the visual representation of the at least one machine displayed via the display device.
A computer-implemented method for monitoring a manufacturing plant comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.