Automated system for production facility

An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of a workpiece, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, said system comprising:

• data communication means for communicating data relating to said workpiece, which data have been acquired by said control computer via the input/output control device, to said monitor computer;
• and
• storage means for storing the data relating to said workpiece, which data have been acquired by said data communication means, at said monitor computer,
• wherein said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means, which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material.

An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of a workpiece, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, said system comprising:

• information transmission means capable of transmitting the control information between the monitor computer and the control computer at a timing that is independent of control of the processes of operation,
• wherein said monitor computer has an editor program for creating the software of said monitor computer and/or said control computer, a compiler program for compiling the software of said monitor computer and/or said control computer, a debugger program for debugging the software of said monitor computer and/or said control computer, a data analyzing program for analyzing the data of the input/output control device, and a menu program for managing start-up/shut-down of a monitoring program which monitors operation of said control computer, and
• said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means, which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material.