Abstract: A method for custom logic engineering in an industrial modular plant executing a production process includes receiving process data for the production process using at least one physical process module; determining a custom process topology by selecting, based on the received process data, at least one module type package, MTP; correlating to the at least one respective physical process module from a database, wherein the module type package is a digital representation of the respective physical process module; selecting at least one extender unit from the database based on the received process data; representing a logical function of the production process; determining connections between the extender unit(s) and the at least one MTP; setting properties of the extender unit(s) based on the received process data; and determining an extended control scheme for controlling dynamic behavior of the production process using the determined custom process topology.

Abstract: A method of predicting sequence for a manufacturing process to assemble a product based on a target plan for the manufacturing process includes retrieving, from a historical process database, a plurality of surrogate process segments based on the target plan, determining, for each surrogate process segment from the plurality of surrogate process segments, a segment similarity value based on a data analysis model, and generating a target process defining a process sequence for performing the manufacturing process based on the segment similarity values of the plurality of surrogate process segments and a sequence inference model that classifies the process segment of the target plan to sequences defined by the plurality of surrogate process segments. The target process includes data that defines a plurality of selected process steps and one or more workstations for the process segment of the target plan.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus is provided for production processes to coordinate the utilization of the operational zone for process variables and automate the execution of the target settings to maximize the production goals without requiring human intervention.

Abstract: A machine tool management method, a machine tool management system and a medium are disclosed, the machine tool management method including: determining at least one target component of a machine tool; generating an evaluation result of the machine tool according to a preset processing rule based on the determined at least one target component; for each target component of one or more target components in the at least one target component, acquiring a target evaluation result corresponding to the target component from the evaluation result of the machine tool; determining a preset management rule based on the target evaluation result and type information and attribute information of the target component, and managing the target component according to the preset management rule.

Abstract: A control system operable to train a control tuner to generate temperature setpoint tracking improvements for a thermal processing system is provided. In one example implementation, temperature setpoint tracking improvements are achieved by generating system controller parameter adjustments based on a difference between a simulated workpiece temperature estimate and an actual workpiece temperature estimate. For example, a system model can generate a simulated workpiece temperature estimate simulating an actual workpiece temperature estimate, and based on the difference between the simulated and actual workpiece temperature estimates, generate clone controller parameter adjustments. The clone controller parameter adjustments can be used to generate system controller parameter adjustments, which can improve temperature setpoint tracking for the thermal processing system.

Abstract: A first remote control application is configured to cause a smart device to transmit at least one command for controlling at least one functional operation of a controllable appliance in response to a user interface element of the smart device being activated while a second remote control application of a bridge device is configured to cause the bridge device to transmit at least one command for controlling at least one functional operation of the controllable appliance in response to receiving at the bridge device the at least one command transmitted from the smart device. The at least one command is transmitted from the smart device using a first transmission protocol and the at least one command is transmitted from the bridge device using a transmission protocol recognized by the controllable appliance.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for determining a cut pattern of a lathe. The lathe is numerically controlled by a control device and includes a tool with a cutter acting on a workpiece. The workpiece has a start contour and a target contour to be achieved by cutting the workpiece according to the cut pattern. The method includes determining a path of a n-th layer of the cut pattern, wherein the n-th layer includes: for n?2: an infeed path linear and/or parallel to the target contour; a circular infeed path starting tangent to the target contour; an intermediate path linear and/or parallel to the target contour; a circular outfeed path ending tangent to the target contour; and for n?2: a smoothing path linear and/or parallel to the target contour.

Abstract: A digital twin management system manages a virtual model that represents an actual physical system in a virtual space on a real-time basis. To generate an integrated virtual model by adding a second virtual model to a first virtual model, a processor of the digital twin system extracts multiple parts that can be used in common in the first virtual model and the second virtual model, generates multiple integrated virtual models that are candidates of an integrated virtual model by changing the extracted parts that can be used in common, calculates an evaluation of each of the generated integrated virtual models, and outputs configuration information regarding each of the integrated virtual model candidates and an evaluation of the integrated virtual model candidate in association with each other.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a recording means storing model data that reproduces a change of a workpiece, the model data being constructed, as an effect of process treatment, from differential data between initial state data and end state data of the workpiece, the end state data representing state of the workpiece to which the process treatment is applied under a predetermined process condition; an input receiving means for receiving an input of the initial state data and target end state data of the workpiece; a predicting means for predicting the end state data from the received initial state data, by using the model data and a combination of multiple model data in the recording means; and a determining means for determining a process condition of process treatment to be applied to the workpiece, based on a proximity between the predicted end state data and the target end state data.

Abstract: A system, method, and device for automated precision control of a computer numerical control (CNC) machine to a workpiece. The system receives via at least one visual input device at least one detectable marking on a workpiece. The system decodes the at least one detectable marking and determines a stored and pre-defined movement routine of a cutting element attached to the CNC machine relative to the workpiece based on the at least one marking. The system then determines, using the at least one visual input device and/or another visual input device, a current position of a working end of the cutting element relative to the at least one marking. Finally, the system performs the pre-defined movement routine including cutting into the workpiece with the cutting element.

Abstract: A method for determining an abnormal processing of a processing machine is disclosed, and includes: obtaining an acceleration signal corresponding to an acceleration of a tool tip from an accelerometer arranged on a tool-end of the processing machine; performing an integral process to the acceleration signal to generate a movement information; obtaining a motor position information of a motor used to bring the tool-end to move; respectively performing a coordinate alignment process to the movement information and the motor-position information to generate a transformed movement information and a position vector respectively being described based on a workpiece-end coordinates system used by a workpiece-end of the processing machine; combining the transformed movement information and the position vector to generate a relative movement value between the tool tip and the workpiece-end; and, determining whether an abnormal processing occurs based on the relative movement value.

Abstract: The present application discloses a motion control method for dual-spindle machining and a dual-spindle machine apparatus. A control device performs data reconstruction of segmentation and checkpoint setting according to first and second data, respectively, to correspondingly form first and second instruction sequences, thereby simultaneously controlling two motion control cards, allowing two machining devices coupled at a back end of the motion control cards to perform machining on two opposite sides of a workpiece. With the checkpoints arranged in the instruction sequences, the machining devices each having one machining tool are provided with a collaboration mechanism, so that the control device is allowed to continue sending instructions of the next segment to the two motion control cards upon arrival of both the instruction sequences at the checkpoints.

Abstract: A thermal displacement compensation apparatus includes a temperature measuring unit, a thermal displacement estimating unit, a thermal displacement compensation unit, a displacement measuring unit, a data recording unit, a thermal displacement compensation learning unit, and a displacement measurement timing diagnostic unit. The displacement measuring unit measures a displacement of a machine tool after compensating an axis command value. The thermal displacement compensation learning unit determines a thermal displacement estimation formula based on temperature information and the displacement recorded in the data recording unit. The displacement measurement timing diagnostic unit compares the temperature information at a past displacement measurement recorded in the data recording unit with current temperature information obtained from the temperature measuring unit, and determines whether to measure the displacement by the displacement measuring unit or not at a predetermined diagnosis timing.

Abstract: A method for CNC manufacturing is provided. The method includes computer-reading a digital model of a 3D part within a first topological space. An offset surface for the digital model in the first topological space is computer-generated. The offset surface in the first topological space is computer-transformed to a transformed offset surface in a second topological space embedded in the first topological space. A plurality of contours are computer-identified, at which a corresponding plurality of embedded parallel planes intersect the transformed offset surface in the second topological space. The plurality of contours in the second topological space are computer-transformed into a corresponding plurality of transformed contours in the first topological space. A CNC toolpath is computer-generated that traces each of the plurality of transformed contours in the first topological space, the CNC toolpath useable by a CNC machine to manufacture the 3D part.

Abstract: This machining program generation device is provided with: a storage unit that stores machining conditions for respective tool regions determined on the basis of the number of effective edges in a multi-blade tool; a contact region calculation unit that calculates a tool region which comes into contact with a workpiece during machining on the basis of the shapes of the workpiece and the edge portion of the tool and of a tool path; and a machining program generation unit that generates a machining program on the basis of the tool path and the machining conditions stored in the storage unit in association with the tool region coming into contact with the workpiece.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to convert an NC program used for one processing into an NC program capable of securing appropriate processing accuracy in another processing machine. Provided is an NC program conversion process method by a conversion system which converts a conversion source NC program for executing a processing in a conversion source processing machine into a conversion destination NC program for executing a processing in a conversion destination processing machine, wherein an input of information relating to (1) stiffness of the conversion destination processing machine or (2) stiffness of the tool included in a conversion destination toolset is received, and on the basis of the received information relating to the stiffness, a conversion source NC program 1424 is converted into a conversion destination NC program 1425.

Abstract: A method includes defining a manufacturing transformation for a mobile workpiece based on mobile workpiece state information of the mobile workpiece, where the manufacturing transformation is an automated operation to be performed on the mobile workpiece. The method includes selecting a set of one or more manufacturing systems from among the one or more manufacturing systems for the mobile workpiece based on the manufacturing transformation and manufacturing system state information associated with the one or more manufacturing systems, where the manufacturing system state information provides data related to at least one of availability, capability, and constraints of the of the one or more manufacturing systems. The method includes defining manufacturing process steps of the manufacturing transformation based on the set of one or more manufacturing systems. The method includes defining a location for performing the manufacturing process steps on the mobile workpiece.

Abstract: A server computer system connected to a first communications network. The server computer includes an instrument communications component configured to communicate with and control a plurality of biological reagent instruments using the first communications network and a user interface component configured to cause user interface (UI) instances to be displayed by a client computer device connected by a second communications network to said server computer system. The UI instances control respective virtual pods representing one or more of said biological reagent instruments.

Abstract: A numerical control device causes a machine tool to perform cutting with a command coordinate value indicated by a cutting command received from a command analysis unit. The numerical control device includes a dynamic compensation parameter calculation unit that calculates a dynamic compensation parameter for compensating for a dynamic error generated by a force acting on the machine tool and a velocity upon cutting, based on a command shape, and a dynamic compensation unit that compensates for the dynamic error with respect to the command coordinate value, based on the dynamic compensation parameter calculated, in which the dynamic compensation parameter calculation unit acquires only the dynamic error from a comparison of the command shape and the measurement data, and calculates the dynamic compensation parameter from the dynamic error acquired.

Abstract: A numerical control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reference speed calculation unit configured to calculate a spindle speed which is a rotation number of the spindle in accordance with a machining program, and a feed speed which is a movement speed of the feed axis in accordance with the machining program; an oscillation command calculation unit configured to calculate an oscillation command, which is a periodic variation component superimposed on a command of the feed axis, based on the spindle speed and the feed speed, as well as an oscillation frequency magnification set in advance; a setting acquisition unit configured to acquire an upper limit value for frequency of the oscillation command; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the frequency of the oscillation command, or adjust at least either of the spindle speed and the oscillation frequency magnification, so that the frequency of the oscillation command does not exceed the upper limit value.