摘要:
The present invention relates to a control system for controlling operation of a numerically controlled machine tool 100, the system comprising a back-end control device 300 and a front-end control device 200 communicably connected to the back-end control device 300. The back-end control device 300 comprises a numerical controller 310, a programmable logic controller 320, a first communication interface 330 being communicably connected to the numerical controller 310 and the programmable logic controller 320, and an interface server module 410 of a second communication interface 400 being communicably connected to the first communication interface 330. The front-end control device 200 comprises an interface client module 420a of the second communication interface 400 being adapted to communicably connect to the interface server module 410, second processing means 210 for executing a second operating system 213, a basic module application 211, and a plurality of control applications 212a-212g, the basic module application 211 being for accessing data in the numerical controller 310 and the programmable logic controller 320 via the one or more interface client modules 420a, the interface server module 410 and the first communication interface 330, a display unit 230 for displaying one or more control screens to a user, an input unit 240 for receiving control input operations from the user, and a first human-machine interface 250 being communicably connected to the display unit 230 and the input unit 240, and including a first graphical user interface 251 for controlling the one or more control screens displayed on the display unit 230 and for processing control input operations of the user.