Configuration of machine processes

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for creation, editing, monitoring and / or optimizing the overall machine process of a programmable machine or installation, supported at the user end by a graphics editor. In this case, the programmable machine or installation is first of all assembled as a system of individual machine units which are involved in the overall machine process during particular time periods, by carrying out a number of partial machine processes. These partial machine processes of the machine units which are involved in the overall machine process are first of all synchronized with one another, after their definition, and are then configured. All of the above method steps are carried out on the basis of a two-dimensional flowchart (I), which is produced by the graphics editor,in the chart area of which symbols relating to the associated process are entered for all the partial machine processes involved in the overall machine process. In this case, the process symbols are positioned or repositioned by the graphics editor such that they are arranged in one machine component dimension corresponding to their association with a machine unit and in a time dimension corresponding to the synchronization of their associated partial machine processes with further partial machine processes of the same machine unit or with partial machine processes of other machine units.

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[0001] The invention relates to a method for creating, changing, monitoring and / or optimizing the entire machine sequence of a programmable-control machine supported on the user side by means of an image editor, as described in the preamble of claim 1 , the invention also relates to a device according to claim 23 . Background technique

[0002] Various methods are known from the prior art for presetting programmable-control machines, as they are used, for example, in manufacturing technology, for the realization of fully automated or semi-automated workflows. In this respect, particular mention is made of production and processing machines for industrial series production, such as injection molding machines or sheet bending machines, which are provided or can be equipped with different optional functional units starting from the basic variant and which are based on The manufactured or processed products or workpieces can be subjected to different machine seq...

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