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AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsVolker Kreidler, Knut Lagies, Wolfgang Mutscheller
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A host system generates and manages databases incorporating data gathered from a plurality of client automation systems, such as CNC machine tools. The data may include real-time data, and is captured from the client systems under supervision of software downloaded over a network from the host system to the client systems. The captured data is transmitted over the network to the host, which creates the databases. The databases preferably include a commercial database comprising data associated with customer owners or operators of the client automation system, as well as a technical database, comprising captured data, administrative and other data, organized by customer and client system. Captured data is preferably associated with the date of capture, providing for the creation of a historical database for given client equipment. With customer authorization, others, such as original equipment manufacturers, may access the captured data, for which they may be charged a fee.
A method for creating a database for use in connection with a system for providing content based on data collected from a client system associated with an industrial controller for controlling at least one machine tool, at least one of client system and the at least one machine tool having a unique identifying code, wherein the system comprises a processor and at least one data storage device, the processor being in communication over a network with the client system, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for creating a database for use in connection with a system for providing content based on data collected from a client system associated with an industrial controller for controlling manufacturing equipment, at least one of the client system and the manufacturing equipment having a customer identifying code, wherein the system comprises at least one data storage device, the system being in communication over a network with the client system, the method comprising the steps of:
In a system associated with the management of computer-controlled machine tools based on the data collected from a plurality of machine tools, wherein the system comprises a computer and at least one data storage device, the computer in communication over a network with the plurality of computer controlled machine tools each having a unique identifying code, a method for building a database in support of the management of the computer controlled machine tools, the method comprising the steps of:
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