Method for the interactive control of a machine

A method for an interactive control of a plastics injection molding machine, wherein operating parameters required for a sequence of operations of the machine are entered into a data processing unit storing these operating parameters in a form providing guidance to an operator, and subsequently one or more operational sequences are carried out in accordance with the said stored operating parameters, wherein the data processing unit has a set of data containing basic rules for the sequence of operations of the machine and wherein, as a result of employing the set of data and on a basis of possibilities presented by at least one of an equipment of the machine and its peripheral devices, a selected collection of possibilities for further sections of the sequence of operations which are insertable in compatible manner into existing sections of the sequence of operations is made available to the operator in a visualized form on a panel, wherein a section to be inserted is checked for adopting the section in the sequence of operations of the machine to be programmed and added thereto as a new component,

• the method further comprising:
• manually performing an action, commencing from a starting state existing in the machine,
• inputting the action into the data processing unit for a first logical check of the action as to a feasibility of performing the action,
• performing the first logical check of the action as to the feasibility of the action;
• determining whether the action is feasible;
• performing the action if the action is feasible, wherein the machine is in an executable state because of and at the end of the action,
• teaching the executable state that has occurred between the starting state and the executable state by a teaching unit for adopting the executable state into the sequence of operations of the machine that is to be programmed as a new component of the sequence of operations,
• checking the executable state in a second logical check regarding a possibility of use of the executable state to be an actual state regarding a connection to the existing sections of the sequence of operations, and
• adopting and performing the operating parameters at the executable state for an achieved position into the sequence of operations.