Assisted assigning of a workpiece to a mobile unit of an indoor location system

US11429084B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Manuel Kiefer · Sinsheim, DE
• Jens Ottnad · Karlsruhe, DE
• Willi Pönitz · Leonberg, DE
• Ulrich Schneider · Darmstadt, DE
• Benjamin Schwarz · Strohberg, DE
• Korbinian Weiss · Ditzingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2022
• Expiry date: May 1, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/30
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for assigning a workpiece to be processed to a mobile unit of an indoor location system used in a manufacturing hall in industrial processing of workpieces is provided. The method includes: providing a manufacturing control system for the industrial processing of workpieces with a machine tool in accordance with workpiece-specific processing plans, providing an assistance system for collecting measurement assistance workpiece data sets for the workpieces, detecting a workpiece to be assigned with the assistance system and generating a measurement-assistance-workpiece data set for the workpiece, comparing the measurement-assistance-workpiece data set with a processing plan-assistance-workpiece data set corresponding to the workpiece to identify a processing plan, providing a mobile unit assigned to the identified processing plan, the indoor location system configured to determine a position of the mobile unit, and spatially assigning the workpiece to the mobile unit assigned to the identified processing plan.