Abstract: Provided is a production control system of a factory including: a plurality of machines; an air conditioner; a power computation unit for monitoring power consumption of an entire factory; a temperature information generation unit for generating information on temperature inside the factory; wherein running status and processing condition of the machines and running status of the air conditioner are controlled to produce the products dictated by the production plan by a delivery deadline; and a machine learning unit that learns a relationship of operational status including the running status and the processing condition of the machines and the running status of the air conditioner to environmental status including production completion time according to the operational status, the temperature inside the factory, and the power consumption of the factory, and outputs operational status that brings the environmental status to a desired condition in accordance with the production plan.

Abstract: Provided is a production control system of a factory including: a plurality of machines; an air conditioner; a power computation unit for monitoring power consumption of an entire factory; a temperature information generation unit for generating information on temperature inside the factory; wherein running status and processing condition of the machines and running status of the air conditioner are controlled to produce the products dictated by the production plan by a delivery deadline; and a machine learning unit that learns a relationship of operational status including the running status and the processing condition of the machines and the running status of the air conditioner to environmental status including production completion time according to the operational status, the temperature inside the factory, and the power consumption of the factory, and outputs operational status that brings the environmental status to a desired condition in accordance with the production plan.

Abstract: A matrix key input interface has key common signal lines and key data signal lines wired in a matrix and key switches disposed at positions where the key common signal lines intersect the key data signal lines. The key data signal lines are periodically monitored while key scan signal is not output to any of the key common signal lines. Based on the results of monitoring, an earth fault is detected in key common signal lines or key data signal lines.

Abstract: A matrix key input interface has key common signal lines and key data signal lines wired in a matrix and key switches disposed at positions where the key common signal lines intersect the key data signal lines. The key data signal lines are periodically monitored while key scan signal is not output to any of the key common signal lines. Based on the results of monitoring, an earth fault is detected in key common signal lines or key data signal lines.

Abstract: A syndrome S is found from a received information D and a parity check matrix for correcting burst errors up to b bits. The syndrome S is inputted to p sets of burst error pattern generation circuits that correspond to information frames overlapping each other by (b?1) bits and each having a length of 2b bits. If a burst error is included entirely in any one of the p sets of burst error pattern generation circuits, then the burst error pattern is outputted. An error pattern calculation circuit executes OR respectively on overlapping bits output from the error pattern generation circuits. By executing exclusive OR on an output of the error pattern calculation circuit and received information D, corrected information Ds is obtained. As a result, a burst error in the received information can be detected and corrected.

Abstract: A method of operating a controller of an industrial machine capable of reducing a rise in temperature of a processor, easily restoring and resuming the operation even if the operation is stopped by the rise in temperature, and further possibly preventing the stop of the operation of the controller by the rise in temperature. When temperature in the controller is lower than a set value, the processor performs a plurality of processings in each predetermined period to do normal operation. When the temperature rises to a set value or higher, processing related to the controlling axes is stopped, a motor is stopped, and the processor performs only minimum or limited required processing, i.e., processing related to a man/machine interface such as processing related to a programmable controller and processing for display and operates in a low-electric-power consumption mode except the period when the processor performs the minimum or limited required processing.

Abstract: A controller capable of monitoring a receiving circuit for receiving machine information. Machine information from a machine is received by a plurality of independent systems and the external signals received by the plurality of systems are compared, thereby, a receiving state of the receiving circuit is monitored. The controller includes a plurality of independent receiving units for receiving the external signal and monitoring units for comparing signals received by the plurality of receiving units, to monitor the receiving units based on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A syndrome S is found from a received information D and a parity check matrix for correcting burst errors up to b bits. The syndrome S is inputted to p sets of burst error pattern generation circuits that correspond to information frames overlapping each other by (b−1) bits and each having a length of 2b bits. If a burst error is included entirely in any one of the p sets of burst error pattern generation circuits, then the burst error pattern is outputted. An error pattern calculation circuit executes OR respectively on overlapping bits output from the error pattern generation circuits. By executing exclusive OR on an output of the error pattern calculation circuit and received information D, corrected information Ds is obtained. As a result, a burst error in the received information can be detected and corrected.

Abstract: Interactive data processing unit which is located at a distance from an FA control unit and capable of direct access to a memory in the FA control unit. When an access request to a memory (3) in a CNC (30) is issued by a device in an MMC (20), a remote access control means (1) outputs the access request to the CNC (30). Upon reception of the access request, an internal data input/output means (2) in the CNC (30) makes access to the requested address by performing a direct memory access (DMA) operation to the memory (3). It writes the data into the memory when the access request is a write-request. On the other hand, when the access request is a read-request, the internal data input/output means (2) outputs the data to the MMC (20). The remote access control means (1) in the MMC (20) receives the data and forwards it to the device which issued the access request. The MMC (20) thereby makes access directly to the memory (3) in the CNC (30).

Abstract: A high silica content zeolite-based catalyst for use in a reaction which uses a feedstock containing an aromatic hydrocarbon or which gives a product containing an aromatic hydrocarbon, which catalyst satisfies the following requirements (1), (2), (3) and (4): (1) the zeolite constituting a zeolite-based catalyst has an SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio of from 20 to 200; (2) the zeolite constituting a zeolite-based catalyst has a primary particle diameter of from 0.3 to 3 &mgr;m; (3) when a zeolite-based catalyst is converted into H type, the H type zeolite-based catalyst has a ratio of the number of surface acid sites to the total number of acid sites is from 0.03 to 0.15; and (4) a zeolite-based catalyst exhibits a pyridine-desorbed amount (B) as measured at a temperature of from 500° C. to 900° C. by a hot desorption method when converted into H type after being subjected to a steam treatment at an H2O partial pressure of 0.8 atm and a temperature of 650° C.

Abstract: A controller for an industrial machine capable of monitoring a receiving circuit for receiving position information. A receiving circuit and an additional receiving circuit receive the same position information from a detector, and a monitoring circuit monitors a receiving state of the receiving circuit using position information received by the additional receiving circuit. A plurality of receiving circuits may be provided for respectively receiving different position information, and a plurality of additional receiving circuits and a plurality of monitoring circuits may be provided in a manner such that each additional receiving circuit and each monitoring circuit is associated with each receiving circuit. A single additional receiving circuit and a single monitoring circuit may be common to a plurality of receiving circuits.

Abstract: A machine-side position detection control unit (20) is provided in order to read a position feedback signal of a position detector (64) associated with a control axis (X axis) requiring machine-side position detection for controlling of a closed loop system. This makes unnecessary for providing a position detection control unit in a servoamplifier (30, 40, 50) for each axis. A numerical control unit (10) and the servoamplifier (30, 40, 50) for each axis are connected in a daisy chain form by a serial communication line.

Abstract: An apparatus for graphically checking for possible interference between bodies that are independently moveable with respect to each other, including CPU means for creating separate time sequential two dimensional images of the separate bodies in pixels of different colors, memory for storing superimposed pixel images of the bodies as a single frame wherein superimposed pixels are stored as a combined pixel of the superimposed colors, a parallel/series converter for scanning each row of the stored frame, and a comparator for comparing each pixel with the next succeeding scanned pixel and determining if a color difference exists between two adjacently positioned pixels, an interruption signal being generated when such color difference exists.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diagnosis system of a numerical control system (CNC) for monitoring an internal state of the CNC, wherein a processor (11) of the CNC acts as a host processor, and a diagnostic processor (1) monitors the processor (11) for the CNC or other processors (18a, 24) in a usual CNC operation mode, and the diagnostic processor (1) executes software for diagnosing the processor (11) for the CNC and the other processors (18a, 24), as the host processor, to detect a cause of malfunction of the CNC, whereby the time required for a normal operation is shortened, when a malfunction occurs, and the operational reliability is thus improved.

Abstract: A high-speed machining system for executing a machining program for a numerical control apparatus at high speed, in which the numerical control apparatus incorporates a hard disk drive (20) for storing a machining program for numerical control, a hard disk control circuit (15), a direct memory access control circuit (14) for transferring the machining program from the hard disk control circuit (15) to a RAM (13), and a microprocessor (12).The microprocessor (12) converts the machining program stored in the RAM (13) into minute amounts of movement for each axis and transfers the resulting data to a numerical control apparatus CNC 2. Therefore, a high-speed data transfer is possible and high-speed machining can be performed with a simple structure.

Abstract: A spindle control system in a numerical control apparatus (CNC).A numerical control apparatus (1) and a PMC (2) are connected by a bus A (8), the numerical control apparatus (1) and a spindle speed control unit are connected by a bus B (9), a command from the numerical control apparatus (1) is sent to the spindle speed control unit (3) by the bus B (9), and a command from the PMC (2) is sent to the spindle speed control unit, via the numerical control apparatus (1), by the bus B (9).As the interface between the spindle speed control unit (3) and the numerical control apparatus (1) is bus-connected, a simplified arrangement can be realized without the need for special cables or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a synchronous control system for effecting a synchronous and superimposed operation among different channels of a multi-channel-control machine tool. A follow-up error amount (.epsilon.3) of a servomotor responsive to a superimposing instruction is simulated, a difference is determined by subtracting the follow-up error amount (.epsilon.3) to the superimposing instruction from a follow-up error amount (.epsilon.2) of a servomotor for a superimposed operation axis (Z2) and the difference is compared with a follow-up error amount (.epsilon.1) of a servomotor for a synchronous operation axis (Z1) to produce an alarm when the comparison indicates the operation of the servomotors is synchronized and superimposed.With this arrangement, a synchronous error can be checked when a superimposed operation of the servomotors is effected.

Abstract: A numerical control apparatus for controlling a multiple-axis and multiple-channel machine tool by controlling multiple axes through multiple channels. A main processor (1) for executing data processings other than servo system processing, and an operator interface module (2), etc. are connected to a first bus (7). A plurality of servo command generating processors (10, 20, 30) for processing input data and producing a servo command for each channel are connected to the first bus (7) and a second bus (41). The second bus (41), which is connected to a plurality of servo control processors (42-45), transfers only servo command data and the first bus (7) transfers all other data. Accordingly, servo commands can be produced at a high speed, and thus a high-speed control of a multiple-axis and multiple-channel machine tool can be effected.