Abstract: An information processing device functions as a slave device connected to a master device via a communication network including a daisy chain connection. The information processing device includes: a communication part which performs communication processing using the communication network; a storage control part which performs control to store in a storage part communication state information indicating a communication state in the communication network detected in the communication part; a determination part which, with reference to the communication state information stored in the storage part, determines whether a communication load of a predetermined value or more is present in the communication network; and an output control part which, if the determination part determines that the communication load is present, performs control to output a result of the determination.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to enable even an unskilled person to easily identify a related event in a short time from a collected event log. A system management device (1) is provided with: a display control part (32) for causing a display part (14) to display an event log; an identification part (30) for identifying an event of interest log specified by a user through an operation part (11); and an extraction part (31) for extracting a related event log related to an event of interest from an event log database (20). The display control part (32) causes the display part (14) to display the event of interest log and the related event log.

Abstract: A control device includes a cyclic communication part and a communication management part. A cyclic communication part controls communication of first control data of which arrival in a first guarantee time is guaranteed according to a preset cyclic period and second control data of which arrival in a second guarantee time longer than the cyclic period is guaranteed and of which a sequence of information included is determined. The communication management part manages a communication schedule of first control data and second control data. When new second control data is acquired while the second control data is divided into a plurality of communication data and communicated according to the cyclic period, the communication management part determines a communication sequence of the plurality of second control data according to priorities of the plurality of second control data.

Abstract: A control device includes a cyclic communication part, a message communication part, and a communication management part. The cyclic communication part performs communication according to a preset cyclic period. The message communication part performs communication that need not conform to the cyclic period. The communication management part manages a communication schedule for the cyclic communication part and the message communication part. When it is detected that control data scheduled to be communicated is data for preferentially selecting communication in the cyclic communication part, the communication management part detects a communication state of the cyclic communication part. When cyclic communication is possible, the communication management part stores the control data in the cyclic communication part, and when cyclic communication is not possible, the communication management part stores the control data in the message communication part.

Abstract: A sensor support system includes a sensor and a terminal device configured to display form information of the sensor. The sensor includes a two-dimensional code (storage tag) which can be read from the terminal device and which is configured to store the form information of the sensor. The terminal device is configured to calculate position information of the sensor from an image of the sensor, configured to generate a virtual image of the form information of the sensor, and configured to display on a display an image in which the virtual image is superimposed on an image of the sensor taken by a camera.

Abstract: To reduce the working hours of a user in an operation and improve an operation rate in an industrial network system. A communication setting change part is provided which automatically changes, in a timing of an end effector replacement, the communication setting in a communication part according to the communication information that corresponds to an end effector.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to enable even an unskilled person to easily identify a related event in a short time from a collected event log. A system management device (1) is provided with: a display control part (32) for causing a display part (14) to display an event log; an identification part (30) for identifying an event of interest log specified by a user through an operation part (11); and an extraction part (31) for extracting a related event log related to an event of interest from an event log database (20). The display control part (32) causes the display part (14) to display the event of interest log and the related event log.

Abstract: A communication system includes a communication device functioning as a master device and a plurality of slave devices communicably connected to the communication device via a communication line, the communication device setting a prescribed address in an added slave device based on a position of the added slave device in a topology composed of a plurality of slave devices, judging whether a change has possibly occurred in the topology when the prescribed address is set in the added slave device, if there is an erroneously set slave device whose address was erroneously set, specifying that slave device, when it is judged that a change has possibly occurred, and resetting the address of the specified erroneously set slave device to an original address.

Abstract: A slave device, a control system, a communication method for response data and a recording medium, through which even when a high-urgency response request is obtained during communication of large-capacity data which requires a plurality of cyclic periods, response data corresponding to the high-urgency response request can be communicated quickly, are provided. The slave device includes a cyclic communication portion and a communication management portion. The cyclic communication portion communicates in accordance with pre-set cyclic periods. The communication management portion manages communication of response data corresponding to a response request from a control device. If a request of response data with high priority is received during communication of response data with low priority over a plurality of cyclic periods, the communication management portion temporarily interrupts the communication of the response data with low priority to communicate the response data with high priority.

Abstract: A control device includes a cyclic communication part and a communication management part. A cyclic communication part controls communication of first control data of which arrival in a first guarantee time is guaranteed according to a preset cyclic period and second control data of which arrival in a second guarantee time longer than the cyclic period is guaranteed and of which a sequence of information included is determined. The communication management part manages a communication schedule of first control data and second control data. When new second control data is acquired while the second control data is divided into a plurality of communication data and communicated according to the cyclic period, the communication management part determines a communication sequence of the plurality of second control data according to priorities of the plurality of second control data.

Abstract: A control device includes a cyclic communication part, a message communication part, and a communication management part. The cyclic communication part performs communication according to a preset cyclic period. The message communication part performs communication that need not conform to the cyclic period. The communication management part manages a communication schedule for the cyclic communication part and the message communication part. When it is detected that control data scheduled to be communicated is data for preferentially selecting communication in the cyclic communication part, the communication management part detects a communication state of the cyclic communication part. When cyclic communication is possible, the communication management part stores the control data in the cyclic communication part, and when cyclic communication is not possible, the communication management part stores the control data in the message communication part.

Abstract: To reduce the working hours of a user in an operation and improve an operation rate in an industrial network system. A communication setting change part is provided which automatically changes, in a timing of an end effector replacement, the communication setting in a communication part according to the communication information that corresponds to an end effector.

Abstract: The present disclosure is possible to increase types of executable work. In a slave device, “normal connection” support and “Fast Connect” support can be preset by user.

Abstract: A sensor support system includes a sensor and a terminal device configured to display form information of the sensor. The sensor includes a two-dimensional code (storage tag) which can be read from the terminal device and which is configured to store the form information of the sensor. The terminal device is configured to calculate position information of the sensor from an image of the sensor, configured to generate a virtual image of the form information of the sensor, and configured to display on a display an image in which the virtual image is superimposed on an image of the sensor taken by a camera.

Abstract: A communication system includes a communication device functioning as a master device and a plurality of slave devices communicably connected to the communication device via a communication line, the communication device setting a prescribed address in an added slave device based on a position of the added slave device in a topology composed of a plurality of slave devices, judging whether a change has possibly occurred in the topology when the prescribed address is set in the added slave device, if there is an erroneously set slave device whose address was erroneously set, specifying that slave device, when it is judged that a change has possibly occurred, and resetting the address of the specified erroneously set slave device to an original address.

Abstract: A slave device is realized that establishes a link with a master device or another slave device such that a large link delay hardly occurs. The slave device includes a PHY unit, a COM unit, and a MPU unit. The PHY unit starts an operation according to the specification of the AutoMDI/MDI-X function when the slave device is turned on or the PHY unit itself is reset. After a predetermined time period has elapsed, the MPU unit resets the COM unit, and the PHY unit is reset in response to the reset of the COM unit.

Abstract: Delay in establishing communication is suppressed in a network system including a master device and a slave device. Provided is a setting method for performing communication setting for at least one of a master device and a slave device serving as a target device, the method including a storage step of storing a value of a communication parameter in a state in which the target device has established communication, and a setting step of, in communication setting in a preparatory stage for the target device to start communication, setting the value of the communication parameter that was stored in the storage step.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, device information about each slave unit is acquired, each slave unit is grouped from the device information about each slave unit and information about a definition file, and setting information providing for communication operation including generation of a data frame transmitted from a master unit to the slave unit. In generating setting information, the setting information is generated such that the setting information is transmitted in a frame format, in which a data field in each unit in which control data of each slave unit is invalidated due to a transfer abnormality of a data frame is ensured in each group, the data field being included in the data frame in which the control data is stored.

Abstract: A technique is provided for detecting a connection abnormality of a slave device, in a network system including a master device and slave devices. The technique includes a connection abnormality detection method in a network system including a master device and a plurality of slave devices. In the network system, data is transmitted from the master device and then returned to the master device through respective slave devices. Each slave device has an upstream-side port and a downstream-side port. The connection abnormality detection method includes acquiring topology information of the network system, closing or opening the port of each slave device such that a serial topology is formed to include a target slave device located on the downmost stream side, transmitting inspection data after the control of the port, and detecting a connection abnormality of the device on the basis of a status of return of the inspection data.

Abstract: A network system includes a master device (200), a plurality of slave devices; and a hub device including a plurality of ports on a downstream side. The master device (200) includes: a storage unit (204) in which setting information is stored, information on a device and topological information being set in the setting information; a real configuration information generating unit (202) that generates real configuration information including information on the device constituting an actual network system and topological information on the device; and a determination unit (203) that determines whether a destination of each device is correct by comparing the real configuration information to the setting information. The determination unit (203) determines that the destination of the slave device is correct, even if a position of the connected port is incorrect with respect to the slave device connected to the hub device.