Production systems and production control methods for controlling a production system

    公开(公告)号:US11625026B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US16807848

    申请日:2020-03-03

    摘要: A production system, the production system comprising the following: a loading zone for loading and/or unloading at least one collection carrier, a locating system for locating a collection carrier in the loading zone, the locating system being designed to determine the location of a mobile unit arranged on the collection carrier and/or to capture identification information stored on the mobile unit, an image-capturing unit, which is designed to capture image information of the loading zone, an image evaluation unit, which is designed to determine the position of the collection carrier and/or a state of the collection carrier by the image information. A production control method for controlling a production system. The production system and the production control method enable improved order processing. Preparatory and/or follow-up tasks can be automated in a simpler and easier manner.

    Indoor location system with energy consumption controlled mobile transceiver units

    公开(公告)号:US11294358B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US16809627

    申请日:2020-03-05

    IPC分类号: G05B19/418 H04W4/80

    摘要: An indoor location system includes mobile transceiver units to support a manufacturing control of process courses in an industrial manufacturing of workpieces in a manufacturing plant. The indoor location system includes an analysis unit configured to determine a position of a mobile transceiver unit to be localized from runtimes of electromagnetic signals between transceiver units, and an energy consumption control unit configured to output a control signal for deactivating a localizing mode of a position signal module of at least one of the mobile transceiver units if participation of the at least one mobile transceiver unit in position determination operations is not required and to output a control signal for activating the localizing mode of the position signal module of the at least one of the mobile transceiver units from a deactivated state when participation of the at least one mobile transceiver unit in a position determination operation is required.

    EVALUATING WORKPIECE POSITIONS IN NESTED ARRANGEMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210229308A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-29

    申请号:US17232164

    申请日:2021-04-16

    IPC分类号: B26D5/00 B26D5/34

    摘要: A method for evaluating a position of a selected sub-space of a nesting plan is provided. The nesting plan is provided for controlling a cutting process of a flatbed machine tool for cutting out workpieces from a material sheet and includes an overlap-free arrangement of respective sub-spaces, the respective sub-spaces corresponding to the workpieces. The method includes providing contour data specifying a cutting contour that delimits the selected sub-space in the position to be evaluated within the planning space, and providing position data indicating respective positions in the planning space of spaces to be considered in the evaluation. The spaces include a group of supported spaces and a group of support surrounding spaces. The method includes providing cutting operation data for at least one section and determining an evaluation value for the position to be evaluated of the selected sub-space using the calculated damage rate of the cutting contour.

    INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING PLANT AND METHOD FOR AN AUTOMATED BOOKING OF MANUAL ACTIVITIES

    公开(公告)号:US20210034043A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-04

    申请号:US17069021

    申请日:2020-10-13

    IPC分类号: G05B19/418 G06Q10/06

    摘要: A method for the automated booking of manual activities carried out by a worker in an industrial manufacturing plant while processing a workpiece is disclosed. The booking is performed in a digital control system for the creation of a digital process chain of the manufacturing. The digital process chain includes activity profiles, each of which is assigned to a manual activity. The method includes: providing movement data of a manual activity to be booked; providing position data of the manual activity to be booked; evaluating the movement data and the position data, wherein the movement data and the position data are input data of a classification process in which the input data are classified with respect to the activity profiles and a specific activity profile is output for the movement data; and booking the output specific activity profile in the digital process chain of the workpiece.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AN ARTICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20230118305A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-20

    申请号:US17197070

    申请日:2019-09-03

    IPC分类号: G06V10/77 G06T7/00

    摘要: A method identifies an article by associating an image of the article with stored article data. The method includes: A) creating the image of the article; B) extracting image features from the image; and C) extracting article features from the stored article data. The method step C) are configured to be carried out before, during, or after method steps A) and B). The following method steps are then carried out: D) comparing the image features to the article features; E) output of association information of the image with the stored article data.