Operating information setting and management method and apparatus of numerical control apparatus
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsTaishi Nogami, Norinaga Mutai
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Abstract
A database, in which information an NC apparatus needs in machining products is accumulated for each product, is set in a hard disk connected to the NC apparatus. In this database, products are represented by numbers assigned to them. When an operator specifies a product number, information required for machining of the product corresponding to that number is retrieved and extracted from the database to be automatically transferred to a predetermined memory of the NC apparatus.
Claims10
A method for setting operation conditions in a machine controlled by a numerical control apparatus, comprising:
- storing a set of information for a corresponding operation task, required when the machine performs the corresponding operation task, in a memory of the numerical control apparatus;
- specifying a product in the information using an identifying mark;
- inputting the machining number and reading from the memory the set of information corresponding to the inputted machining number such that the machine performs the operation task;
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- setting the set of information, which was read from the memory, as the operation conditions of the machine when it performs the operation task.
A machining information management system in a numerical control apparatus, comprising:
- storing means for accumulating information for machining of products, the information for each product including an identifying mark, and storing the information as a database;
- inputting means with which each identifying mark specifying a product is inputted using keys;
- machining information extracting means for extracting from the database machining information corresponding to one of the identifying marks inputted using the inputting means;
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- means for entering machining information extracted by the machining information extracting means into the numerical control apparatus to control the system according to the machining information.
A computer readable storage medium storing a program controlled by a computer, comprising:
- storing information, for a machine to operate, in a memory of a numerical control apparatus by an operation task to be performed during operation;
- specifying a product in the information using an identifying mark;
- selecting an operation task at the time of operation based on a machining number previously input, and inputting a selected operation task to read out information to perform the inputted operation task from the memory;
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- setting operation conditions of the machine based on the read out information.
A machining information management system in a numerical control apparatus, comprising:
- a storing unit accumulating information for machining of products, the information for each product including an identifying mark, and storing the information as a database;
- an inputting unit specifying a product for each identifying mark;
- a machining information extracting unit extracting from the database machining information corresponding to one of the identifying marks inputted using the inputting unit;
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- a unit for entering information extracted by the machining information extracting unit into the numerical control apparatus to control the system according to the machining information.
A machine controlled by a numerical control apparatus, comprising:
- a first unit including;
- a memory storing a set of information, including an identifying mark for a product, corresponding to an operation to instruct the machine, and
- an interface coupled to a bus for accessing the memory;
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- a second unit, coupled to the interface, receiving and transmitting information to the memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.