136 results about "Engineering tool" patented technology

This invention describes a rapid tooling process that integrates solid freeform fabrication (SFF) with electroforming to produce metal tools including molds, dies, and electrical discharge machining (EDM) electrodes. An SFF part is metalized by electroless plating and then placed in an electroplating solution, where metal is deposited upon the part by electrolysis. When the desired thickness of metal has been reached, the SFF part is removed from the metal shell. The shell is then optionally backed with other materials to form a mold cavity, and EDM electrode, or other desired parts for tooling. Thermomechanical modeling and numerical simulation with finite element analysis (FEA) is used to determine the geometry of the SFF part and the electroform thickness for minimizing the manufacturing time and cost while satisfy the tooling requirement.

In response to programmer input of a trigger token, a program editor creates a pair of boundary tokens encapsulating an embedded lexical context and positions an insertion point within the embedded lexical context. The operations on the embedded lexical context are preferably performed using an embeddable sub-editor specialized to the task at hand. Since boundary tokens are generated in pairs, stability of lexical boundaries is enforced. Accordingly, stable implementations of certain desirable behaviors, including language-oriented advanced program typography that is robust to user edits, are facilitated using the invented techniques.

An editor or other software engineering tool may be configured to represent program code as an ordered set of lexical tokens and to maintain, coincident with an operation that modifies contents of the set, an undo object that identifies a pre-modification state of an insertion point. Often, the pre-modification state includes both a token coordinates and a character coordinates representation of the insertion point and storage of pre-modification state in, or in association with, the undo object facilitates efficient implementation of a undo operation, e.g., generally without recomputation of a coordinate representation that would otherwise scale with buffer size. In this way, lexical tokens corresponding to an inserted substring can be readily and efficiently excised to restore a pre-insertion tokenized list and insertion point state. Similarly, lexical tokens corresponding to a removed substring can be readily and efficiently reinstated to restore a pre-deletion tokenized list and insertion point state.

An engineering tool includes a spreadsheet editor configured to display a definition in cells of a spreadsheet, and to edit the definition by setting allocation data of a device to a cell among the cells of the spreadsheet or by setting a calculation defined in some cells among the cells of the spreadsheet in reference to other cells among the cells of the spreadsheet; and an executable module file generator configured to generate, based on the edited definition, an executable module file configured to be executed in an execution environment of a controller in order for the controller to control the device.

An editor or software engineering tool may be configured to render whitespace between adjacent tokens, wherein the amount of whitespace between any two adjacent tokens is determined according to language-specific style rules and scaled in accordance with display considerations. In some realizations, the operative scaling is selected or defined by a user according to the user's visual preferences. In some realizations, the operative scaling relates to requirements or constraints of an automated layout mechanism. For example, a particular scaling may be calculated to adjust line length in conformance with a desired margin alignment or to optimize layout when long lines are automatically wrapped (or folded) in some automatic way.

An editor, software engineering tool or collection of such tools may be configured to encode (or employ an encoding of) an insertion point representation that identifies both a particular token of a token-oriented representation and a character offset thereinto. Efficient implementations of insert, remove and replace operations that employ such a representation are described herein. Computational costs of such operations typically scale at worst with the size of fragments inserted into and/or removed from such a token-oriented representation, rather than with buffer size. Accordingly, such implementations are particularly well-suited to providing efficient support for programming tool environments in which a token stream is updated incrementally in correspondence with user edits.

An editor, software engineering tool or collection of such tools may be configured to encode (or employ an encoding of) an insertion point in both token-coordinates and character-coordinates. Efficient implementations of insert, remove and replace operations that employ and maintain such a representation are described herein. Some realizations further maintain a total buffer size encoding consistent with each such operations. Computational costs of such operations typically scale at worst with the size of fragments inserted into and/or removed from such a token-oriented representation, rather than with buffer size. Accordingly, such implementations are particularly well-suited to providing efficient support for programming tool environments in which a token stream is updated incrementally in correspondence with user edits.

An editor or software engineering tool may be configured to represent program code as a doubly-linked list of lexical tokens and to maintain, coincident with an operation that modifies contents of the list, an undo object that identifies opposing end nodes of a sublist of one or more lexical tokens corresponding to a substring that is either inserted into or removed from the list by the operation. In this way, lexical tokens corresponding to an inserted substring can be readily and efficiently excised to restore a pre-insertion tokenized list state. Similarly, lexical tokens corresponding to a removed substring can be readily and efficiently reinstated to restore a pre-deletion tokenized list state. Advantageously, undo support once employed to restore a prior tokenized list state is symmetrically available to support redo operations. In some embodiments in accordance with the present invention, undo-redo entries are maintained in an operation ordered set that is traversed to support one or more operations in either the undo or redo directions. In some realizations, such an ordered set of undo-redo entries is maintained by, or in conjunction with, an undo-redo manager.

A Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework is implemented as part of the run-time system function features of a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system. Optimal control calculations are performed in the run-time MPC function block of the PLC. The optimal control function is determined by an MPC block in an engineering tool of the PLC, using a system dynamic matrix containing measurements from a unit step response test performed by the PLC.

The invention discloses an electric mortar transport cart, and relates to the technical field of constructional engineering tools. A damping plate spring is installed at the bottom of a cart body, a walking wheel mechanism is installed at the lower end of the damping plate spring, a storage battery and a drive motor are installed on the walking wheel mechanism, and the drive motor is connected with the walking wheel mechanism through a belt; an image camera, a wide-angle camera and a lighting lamp are installed at the front end of the cart body; a discharging pipe is installed at the lower left end of the cart body, an installing groove is formed in the front side of the discharging pipe, a gate segment is installed in the installing groove, a material guiding plate is obliquely installed at the lower end in the cart body, the left portion is lower than the right portion of the material guiding plate, a discharging roller mechanism is arranged at the connecting position of the discharging pipe and the cart body, and a push handle is installed on the upper right end of the cart body. The electric mortar transport cart is capable of being accurately observed and operate and improving safety, electric operation is adopted, time can be saved, and the electric mortar transport cart is high in efficiency and easy to operate.

The invention relates to the technical field of finance technology (Fintech), and discloses a fault exercise method. The method comprises the steps of when a fault exercise scene instruction is received, controlling an exercise platform to obtain the instances of the target VMs in the VMs based on the fault exercise scene instruction, and sending the instances and the fault exercise scene instruction to a chaotic engineering tool through the exercise platform; performing exercise on the instance through the chaotic engineering tool, and monitoring whether the instance is exercised or not through an IMS; if the exercise is completed, sending the alarm information to the exercise platform through the IMS, and controlling the exercise platform to obtain a recovery process in the SOP; and sending the recovery process to the chaotic engineering tool through the exercise platform, recovering the examples through the chaotic engineering tool, and sending the fault recovery information to theexercise platform after the recovery is completed. The invention further discloses a fault exercise device, an apparatus and a computer storage medium. According to the invention, the efficiency of the financial system fault exercise is improved.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to iterative project management and provide a method, system and computer program product for utilizing real options based iterative development program metrics. In an embodiment of the invention, a data processing system configured for software project management can include a computer aided software engineering tool enabled to use a methods architecture configured to manage iterative development, said as Rational Unified Process (TM) (RUP) methodware. The data processing system also can include a data store of unified process data produced by the computer aided software engineering tool. Finally, the data processing system can include real options-based computational logic.

A method and system have been disclosed for determining one or more performance parameters of a project. Various examples of the performance parameters of the project may include productivity, efficiency, and quality. The method described above includes defining one or more lifecycle stages of the project. Examples of the lifecycle stages of the project may include requirement analysis, high-level design, detailed design, build, integration test, system test, documentation, acceptance, installation, and post implementation. Further, the method includes receiving details of one or more tools being used for each lifecycle stages of the project. The method further includes assigning a score based on the one or more tools being used for the project. Further, the method also includes automatically calculating a value based on the assigned score. Thereafter, the performance parameters of the project are determined based on the calculated value.

A method is disclosed for engineering a field device by an engineering tool, which method can include identifying the field device, and configuring, parameterizing, diagnosing and commissioning the field device. Diagnosing the field device can include identifying one or more parameters that cause an error. Diagnosing the field device by an engineering tool can include identifying the parameter that causes an error through a device specific command.

Computer system configured to generate an engineering workflow, said system comprising a first database which stores a library of engineering patterns and a second database which stores a library of engineering tool functions of an engineering tool, wherein a sequence of automatically concatenated workflow steps forming said engineering workflow is generated by mapping for each workflow step a selected engineering pattern to a selected tool function of said engineering tool.

A sequence-program debugging assistance apparatus (50) according to an embodiment includes an engineering tool (100) and an execution control section (12). The engineering tool (100) includes a configuration editing section (1) that receives information indicating a unit to be disabled selected from a programmable logic controller by a user, a variable holding section (2) that holds variables to be used by units in a sequence program, a program editing section (3) that can edit the sequence program, a storage section (4) that stores the sequence program, a conversion section (5) that converts the sequence program to execution code executable by an executing section (11), a search section (6) that acquires a variable to be used by the unit to be disabled from the variable holding section and searches the sequence program for a location where the acquired variable is used, and a disabling setting section (7) that writes a region corresponding to the location in the execution code into a disabled-region setting file as a disabled region where execution is disabled. The execution control section (12) controls, on the basis of the disabled-region setting file, the executing section so as not to execute the disabled region.

An engineering tool coordination device includes a first tool interface configured to acquire first data having a first data format usable to an engineering tool, a data converter configured to convert the first data into second data usable to the control program, the second data having a second data format, a program provider configured to provide the second data to the control program, a second tool interface configured to acquire a first test request having a first test request format from the engineering tool, a test converter configured to convert the first test request into a second test request executable in the control program, the second test request having a second test request format, and a test manager configured to cause to execute an operation test program in the control program and to operate an operation test using the second data on a basis of the second test request.

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a system and method for data integration using at least two independent engineering tools including their private database, where all data in the first tool being of interest for the second tool are identified, specified and stored in an electronic data container. Each data item stored in the electronic data container is provided with a link to the original data and with a copy of the stored data items. The electronic data container that includes the data items can be accessed by the target tool or a separate application to obtain a read-only view of the engineering data of the source tool for further use in the target engineering tool and navigation through the data for the engineer as well as for a data import.

Methods and apparatus for automatic test equipment enhance performance of automatic test equipment and provide test engineering tools. Various aspects of the present invention provide improved test times and other performance characteristics for ATE. In addition, a test system according to various aspects of the invention may include test tools to assist personnel in test processes.

A design engineering tool and associated method are disclosed. The design engineering tool and method allow a user to view a photo of a land area or a map derived from the photo, to overlay the photo or map with existing utility lines and proposed utility lines, and to generate alerts regarding any conflict that is identified between a proposed utility line and an existing utility line. The tool also has an augmented reality mode where it displays visualizations of existing and proposed utility lines over a real-time image obtained from a camera. Optionally, the exact location and condition of existing utility lines can be determined using radar and camera devices that generate data describing the location and physical characteristics of the utility lines. The generated data can be imported into the design engineering tool.

The invention belongs to the technical field of constructional engineering tools, and particularly relates to a coating brushing roller for constructional engineering, which comprises a roller body, arotary connecting part, a driving module, an annular sleeve, a motor, stirring modules and a liquid discharging module, the outer side of the roller body is sleeved with a soft bristle sleeve; one end of the roller body is fixedly connected with an annular sleeve; one end, deviating from the roller body, of each annular sleeve is provided with a rotary connecting part; a driving module is installed at the position, located on the inner side of the annular sleeve, of one end of the roller body, a first rotating connecting rod and a second rotating connecting rod are installed in the roller body, two stirring modules are installed on the first rotating connecting rod and the second rotating connecting rod correspondingly, and a sliding partition plate is arranged in the roller body. Coatingis pressurized and guided into the interior of the liquid drainage module through the two sliding partition plates, then the coating is quantitatively sprayed out through the two corrugated pipes, the coating is evenly distributed on the soft bristle sleeve, the two ends of the soft bristle sleeve are replaced with supplementary materials, and the painting efficiency and quality are effectively improved.