Production module, production system, and method for operating a production module

US10259659B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Frank Buschmann · Hersbruck, DE
• Wendelin Feiten · Neubiberg, DE
• Gisbert Lawitzky · Munich, DE
• Michael Pirker · Munich, DE
• Kai Wurm · Hersbruck, DE
• Vladimir Zahorcak · Svätý Jur, SK

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2019
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Provided is a production module for processing or handling a product in a production system, which production module has a product detection module for reading in product parameters associated to the product, and an interaction module for assigning an adjacent production module to a transfer port. Furthermore, a local assignment table is provided, in which non-adjacent conveying objectives in the production system are in each case assigned to one of the transfer ports. A balancing module serves for iterative reading of first assignment information of a corresponding assignment table of a first adjacent production module, for iterative formation of the local assignment table with the aid of the read-in first assignment information, and for iterative transfer of second assignment information of the local assignment table to a second adjacent production module.