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AssigneeComau Industriale S.p.A.
InventorVittorio Corni
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A control system for machinery and plants generally, particularly for the applications to machine tools or welding machines for large mass production comprising a centralized unit pre-disposed for the general control of a unit of mechanical groups or machining stations; the connections between said central unit and the single mechanic groups or machining stations being embodied through local control units comprising control units for power services and a personalized logic standard unit with a programming device pre-disposed for a pre-selected sequence of stages on said single mechanical group or machining station; said logic unit comprising a step-by-step programmer operatively associated with said single machine or machining station in order to embody a sequence of operations as prefixed by means of said programming device.
A control system for a plurality of machine work stations of the type where each machine station performs one or more operations on a workpiece comprising a central unit for controlling the plurality of machine work stations, a plurality of local control units coupled to and actuated by said central unit, each of said local control units controlling one or more machine work stations, each of said local control units comprising a step-by-step programmer operatively associated with one or more machine work stations and generating a sequential series of control signals, each of said local control units further including a hard-wired logic unit tailored to a particular one or more machine work stations to produce step-by-step a pre-selected sequence of machine signals in response to said sequential series of control signals, and interface means coupling said machine signals to the one or more machine work stations with which said particular step-by-step programmer is operatively associated.
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