Configuration of machine processes
US8688260B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 19, 2009 |
| Grant date | Apr 1, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 8, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/23291
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A method enables a user to create, edit, monitor and/or optimize the overall machine process of a programmable machine or system assisted by a graphics editor. The programmable machine or system is initially put together as a system of individual machine units which are involved in the overall machine process during certain times by running a number of partial machine processes that are firstly synchronized with one another once they have been set up and then parameters are set for them. These method steps take place in a two-dimensional process diagram created by the graphics editor that plots all the partial machine processes involved in the overall machine process via assigned process symbols that are positioned or repositioned by the graphics editor so that they are arranged in a machine component dimension and in a time dimension.
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