US 6,240,847 B1 · Printing machine state display

Abstract

A device is described for the state display for a printing machine, more specifically a sheet offset printing machine. The printing machine has a control, which is usually a computer, that communicates with several sensors and with a display device/computer. These sensors are located throughout the printing machine and can detect the position of certain elements of the machine. The invention extends the traditional printing machine state display so that it not only displays the simple state of the machine but also monitors previous states and can accomplish complex analysis of machine malfunctions. To accomplish this, the invention uses a storage device, which contains data on the representation and configuration of the machine and the sensors located in the printing machine. The control receives the data from the sensors and the storage device and sends graphical data to another computer that may process the information and present it to a display device.

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Dependent claims

A device for displaying the state of a printing machine comprising:

sensors located within the printing machine whose signals are representative of relative positions of elements of the printing machine;
a storage device for storing data about a printing machine configuration, wherein the data includes placement of the elements in the printing machine and possible states of the elements;
a control computer connected to the sensors and the storage device that outputs graphically workable data from the signals generated by the sensors and the data from the storage deice;
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a visualization computer in communication with the control computer control computer is adapted to collect and process data from the storage device and the sensor, and the visualization computer is adapted to transform the processed data from the and responsive to the graphically workable data for transforming the data into a graphical representation of the placement and state of one or more of the elements in the printing machine that are then visualized on a display device.

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