Abstract: An environmental temperature change prediction device includes an environmental temperature acquisition unit, an outside temperature acquisition unit, a plant environment pattern setting unit, a prediction model generating unit, and an environmental temperature change prediction unit. The environmental temperature acquisition unit measures a machine body temperature. The plant environment pattern setting unit defines in advance a classification rule for classifying change trends of the environmental temperature into a plurality of patterns based on data of the environmental temperature and the plant outside temperature and environmental temperature prediction models. The prediction model generating unit selects the applicable plant environment pattern and determines a parameter of the environmental temperature prediction model corresponding to the selected plant environment pattern.

Abstract: A method and system for milling or engraving a workpiece provides improved throughput by varying one or both of a track speed or a rotational rate of a rotary cutting tool as the cutting tool cuts along a track. Multiple indications of material hardness are determined at a surface of the workpiece, movement of the cutting tool along a tool track is programmatically controlled to remove material from the workpiece, and one or both of a rotational rate of the tool or a track speed of the tool is adjusted along the tool track in conformity with the indications of material hardness, so that the rotational rate of the tool and/or the track speed is reduced at locations with harder material and increased at locations with softer material along the tool track.

Abstract: A method for detecting and compensating CNC tools being implemented in an electronic device, receives from a detector first parameters and second parameters in respect of a first tool. Such first parameters include at least one of service life, blade break information, and blade chipping information of the first tool, and such second parameters include at least one of length extension information, length wear information, radial wear information, and blade thickness wear information of the first tool. Based on the first parameters, instructions to process the workpiece are transmitted or not. Upon receiving the second parameters, instructions to adjust operation of the first tool are transmitted, to compensate for deterioration in normal use.

Abstract: To provide a PLC having a data collection function and a data display screen generation function. The PLC includes: a collection section that collects a symbol value stored in a symbol, which is a device or a variable serving as a collection target, according to the application program; a determination section that determines whether or not the symbol value collected by the collection section according to the application program satisfies a normal condition set for the application program to detect a status different from usual regarding the symbol value; and a generation section that generates a display screen including a determination result of the determination section and information indicating the symbol value collected by the collection section according to the application program.

Abstract: A method for displaying a sequence of workpiece-illustrations and/or order information for supporting a sorting process during manufacturing of workpieces with a manufacturing system includes transporting manufactured workpieces with the conveyor system to the sorting point according to a sequence and arrangement specified by the processing plan. The method further includes receiving, in the processor of the display unit, workpiece image data and/or order data provided by the machine tool control system for the workpieces transported to the sorting point. The method additionally includes displaying the workpiece image data and/or the order data on the monitor of the display unit in a sequence and/or an arrangement such that the sequence and/or the arrangement of the workpiece image data and/or the order data corresponds to the sequence and/or the arrangement of the workpieces transported from the conveyor system to the sorting point.

Abstract: In a method of setting heat-resistant alloy cutting conditions used to set cutting conditions under which a heat-resistant alloy is cut with a cutting tool, the cutting tool has a long shaft mounted on a spindle and extended in the axial direction and teeth formed on the shaft. The cutting conditions include a radial direction cutting amount of the cutting tool in the radial direction. When the radial direction cutting amount in which one tooth is constantly in contact with the heat-resistant alloy is given as a smallest radial direction cutting amount and the radial direction cutting amount in which three or more teeth are not in contact with the heat-resistant alloy is given as a largest radial direction cutting amount, a radial direction cutting amount of the cutting tool is set in the range from the smallest radial direction cutting amount to the largest radial direction cutting amount.

Abstract: A system and method for managing power consumption and storage in a power grid. Measurements are received from a plurality of geographically distributed energy management controllers. Each energy management controllers has energy storage units with stored energy. The measurements comprise the energy production and storage capacity of the energy management controllers and their associated energy storage units. The measurements are processed, e.g., aggregated, and displayed on a graphical user interface. Commands are transmitted to a first subset of the energy management controllers to command the units to discharge their stored energy into a power grid through an inverter. Commands are transmitted to a second subset of the plurality of energy management controllers to store energy in each unit's energy storage unit.

Abstract: A method and an associated controller for safely operating a multi-axis kinematic system by using a safety function are disclosed. The method includes calculating compensation values at the run time of a controller of the multi-axis kinematic system, wherein the calculation is performed based on predefinable error values of respective axes, geometric parameters of the multi-axis kinematic system, and current axis values of the multi-axis kinematic system. The method further includes operating the safety function based on the calculated compensation values.

Abstract: A numerical control device for machining a workpiece while performing vibration cutting in which a tool and the workpiece are relatively vibrated by driving a first axis that drives the tool or a second axis that drives the workpiece, includes a parameter adjustment unit that adjust a parameter related to a vibration condition for the vibration cutting, based on the amount of cutting load generated on the first axis or the second axis when the vibration cutting is performed, and a controller that controls the vibration cutting using the adjusted parameter.

Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes: treatment parts each of which performs a predetermined treatment; and a transfer mechanism which transfers a transfer object. Transfer objects are transferred in a predetermined transfer-in order into the substrate treatment apparatus. The substrate treatment apparatus includes a controller which acquires a process job. The controller determines before starting transfer of one transfer object to the treatment part, when the process job is different between the one transfer object and a preceding transfer object transferred into the substrate treatment apparatus prior to the one transfer object and a same kind of treatment is included in the respective process jobs thereof, a possibility of performing preceding execution of executing the same kind of treatment on the one transfer object previous to completion of the same kind of treatment on the preceding transfer object.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method and apparatus for hybrid process recipes, and a device and a medium. The control method includes: acquiring hybrid process recipe operation groups associated with process recipes operated by etching chambers of an etching machine, where different process recipes correspond to different hybrid process recipe operation groups; acquiring a switching rule of different hybrid process recipe operation groups; and controlling, based on a reserved process recipe for a real-time reserved demand of a target etching chamber and a requirement of the switching rule, the etching machine to automatically switch to a target hybrid process recipe operation group associated with the reserved process recipe.

Abstract: A controlling apparatus for controlling operation of a substrate processing apparatus includes a first CTC, and a second CTC. When the first CTC stops operating, the second CTC is preset to control each module in the substrate processing apparatus in place of the first CTC. As the first CTC and the second CTC are dualized to provide the controlling apparatus, even when one of the CTCs stops operating, another dualized CTC is used to control the substrate processing apparatus, so that operation-stop of the substrate processing system is prevented and entire process efficiency is increased.

Abstract: A method and device for blast furnace state monitoring based on multi-modes fusion. In the process of blast furnace state monitoring, the concept of sub-mode is introduced, and the method for pre-acquisition and multi-modes weighted fusion by sub-mode is proposed to monitor blast furnace state. After preprocessing the main parameter data of the blast furnace, several sub-modes of the blast furnace and their corresponding blast furnace state indication variable data are obtained by means of a mean shift clustering algorithm. Taking the real-time parameter data of the blast furnace as inputs, the Euclidean distance between the real-time parameter data of the blast furnace and each sub-mode is calculated, and the sub-modes are weighted and fused according to the distance, and the fusion result is the real-time blast furnace state, so as to realize the real-time state monitoring of the blast furnace in a smooth operation.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods for calibrating a technical system with respect to stochastic influences during real operation of the technical system. In one example embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes the steps of: determining the values of a number of control variables, carrying out the calibration on the basis of a load cycle which results in a sequence of a number of operating points, executing the load cycle multiple times under the influence of at least one random influencing variable, with each realization of the load cycle resulting in a random sequence of the number i of operating points, defining a risk measure of the probability distribution, with which the probability distribution is mapped to a scalar variable, and optimizing the risk measure by varying the number of control variables in order to obtain optimal control variables for calibration.

Abstract: An electronic device manufacturing system that includes a process tool and a tool server coupled to the process tool and comprising a communication node and an evaluation system. The communication node is configured to obtain one or more attributes from an evaluation system and provide a monitoring device comprising a data collection plan that is based on the one or more attributes. The communication node is further configured to register the monitoring device with a process tool. The communication node is further configured to receive, from the process tool, data based on the data collection plan and send the received data to the evaluation system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the intelligent distribution of data for robotic, autonomous, and similar systems. To reduce the impact of multi-agent coordination on networked systems embodiments are disclosed that include the use of action-based constraints which yield constrained-action POMDP (CA-POMDP) models, and probabilistic constraint satisfaction for the resulting infinite-horizon finite state controllers. To enable constraint analysis over an infinite horizon, an unconstrained policy is first represented as a finite state controller (FSC). A combination of a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) routine and a discrete optimization routine can be performed on the finite state controller to improve probabilistic constraint satisfaction of the finite state controller, while minimizing impact to a value function.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for optimizing a gasifier model. Some examples include: virtually partitioning the gasifier by temperature; enabling the gasifier model to input feed split from total feed based on a respective proportion coefficient in each virtual partition to perform gasification reactions independently by each virtual partition; enabling the gasifier model to determine a virtual value of a gasifier parameter after mixing the virtual partitions, quenching and shifting when gasification reactions reach an equilibrium in each virtual partition; determining a measured value of the gasifier parameter when the total feed is input; and adjusting the proportion coefficients based on a comparison result between the measured value and the virtual value of the gasifier parameter.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a model-free optimization method of process parameters of injection molding to solve the problems of frequent tests required and performing adaptive adjustment on different parameters in the existing optimization method. The method need not build a surrogate model between a product quality index and a process parameter to render the process parameter to converge nearby the optimal solution by an on-line iteration method. The present invention calculates the gradient direction of a current point by an iterative gradient estimation method, and uses adaptive moment estimation algorithm to allocate an adaptive step for each parameter. The method can significantly reduce the cost and time required in the process parameter, which greatly helps improving the optimization efficiency of process parameters of injection molding.

Abstract: Cutting a workpiece using a cutting tool associated with a system, whereby the system includes a guide having a first glyph and second glyph. The first and second glyphs are both visible on a single side of the guide. The guide is associated with a specific three-dimensional model of a plurality of three-dimensional models. The system further includes an input mechanism, configured to receive a location of the first glyph and of the second glyph, relative to the cutting tool. The system further includes a control system, functionally associated with the input mechanism and with the cutting tool. The control system is configured to direct the cutting tool to cut a version of the specific three-dimensional model into the workpiece at a location, such as at least partially between the locations of the first glyph and the second glyph, which locations were received by said input mechanism.

Abstract: To easily check a changing trend of machine state data on an injection molding machine during a predetermined period and/or in every predetermined period. An injection molding information management support device for managing machine state data regarding a machine state in operation of an injection molding machine during a predetermined period and/or in every predetermined period includes a machine state data acquisition unit that acquires a machine state data value for each molding cycle in the injection molding machine, and a frequency distribution data recording unit that converts the machine state data value into a preset class data value and records the class data value in a storage unit.