Abstract: A method for connecting a first and second computer via a first and/or second communication connection enabling connection of the computers. The communication connections each have at least one first connection property. At least two application variants have a prioritization order. The method includes selecting an application variant with the highest priority and checking whether the requirements of the selected application variant are met by one of the first and second communication connections. The method further includes selecting, based on a determination that the requirements of the selected application variant are not met, an application variant of the at least two application variants with the next lowest priority and repeating steps of the method. The method further includes connecting the first computer and the second computer via the first and/or second communication connection such that the requirements of the selected application variant for the first connection property are met.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a safety area of a machine tool, wherein the safety area has at least one access area and access to the safety area is only possible via the access area, the method including monitoring the access area is at least by a camera and a further sensor, connecting the camera and the further sensor to a computer system, and monitoring with the computer system, by the further sensor, whether an object enters the safety area. The method further includes capturing with the camera at least one image of the access area when the computer system detects by the further sensor that the object is entering the safety area and evaluating the at least one image captured by the camera with the computer system after it has been established by the further sensor that the object has entered the safety area.

Abstract: A method for starting a machine tool includes receiving at least one start signal; outputting, after the start signal has been received, at least one acoustic and/or visual warning signal; monitoring, by at least one sensor system, at least one safety zone of the machine tool; and starting the machine tool at the earliest after a predetermined delay time after the start signal is received. The start of the machine is aborted if a hazard is detected by the sensor system.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing control of machining of workpieces in a manufacturing hall that includes providing a plurality of image acquisition devices configured to acquire image sequences of allocated observation areas, identifying an object to be tracked in a first image of a first image sequence using at least one object feature, determining positions of the object feature in images of subsequent image sequences, determining a current position of the object by localizing the object feature in a temporally current image of one of the image sequences, and assigning the position of the object feature in the temporally current image to a current position in the observation area of the image sequence that includes the temporally current image, and integrating the determined current position of the object into the manufacturing control of the hall.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing control of machining of workpieces in a manufacturing hall that includes providing a plurality of image acquisition devices configured to acquire image sequences of allocated observation areas, identifying an object to be tracked in a first image of a first image sequence using at least one object feature, determining positions of the object feature in images of subsequent image sequences, determining a current position of the object by localizing the object feature in a temporally current image of one of the image sequences, and assigning the position of the object feature in the temporally current image to a current position in the observation area of the image sequence that includes the temporally current image, and integrating the determined current position of the object into the manufacturing control of the hall.