206 results about "Plant automation" patented technology

A portable RFID reader (or reader/writer) that also employs a location determination subsystem that facilitates determination of the reader (or reader/writer) location. The location subsystem can employ a satellite-based GPS (Global Positioning System) location technology where such signals are unimpeded by structures. Additionally, the location subsystem can employ other terrestrial location technologies that operate inside structures such as warehouses and the factory automation environment.

The present invention provides a novel distributed factory system framework including a novel factory automation lifecycle (200) having lifecycle activities for SW developing and integrating (210), installing and administrating (220), factory modeling (230), manufacturing planning (240), manufacturing controlling, monitoring and tracking (250) and analyzing of manufacturing results (260). The factory lifecycle comprises framework components. The distributed factory system framework also includes application components and software building blocks. The framework components are adapted for managing the application components, while the application components are utilized to provide instructions for managing a process such as a wafer fab. The building blocks are adapted for forming or modifying framework and application components. The distributed factory system framework provides computer implemented methods for integrating processing systems and facilitates process and equipment changes.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing automation services in a distributed industrial controller environment. In one aspect of the present invention, a data access service is provided that includes, sending and receiving data to and from a data access service namespace operative in the distributed controller environment. In another aspect of the present invention, an alarming service is provided wherein data values are monitored in a server component according to predetermined conditions configured by a user or other entity. If the data values are determined to be outside of boundaries as defined by the predetermined conditions, an alarm can be communicated to a plurality of other components cooperating in the distributed environment.

A method and apparatus for providing security to factory automation devices in a switched Ethernet network. Traffic between factory automation devices and an Ethernet switch is limited to packets including approved TCP/UDP port numbers and to selected data rates.

Automation technology facilities are used for automating industrial processes such as the control of conveyor belts. A high-level control device with a logical model of the plant stored in the control device is disclosed. Simulation models and control programs are generated by the control device. The generated control programs have special data blocks which contain the parameters that are to be optimized by the simulation. The generated simulation models generate the parameters as result values of the simulation evaluation algorithms and supply the values in an automated manner to the special data blocks of the generated control programs.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automatic production equipment in factories, and particularly relates to a multi-axis manipulator carrying mechanism. The multi-axis manipulator carrying mechanism is high in efficiency, stable and high in cost performance. The multi-axis manipulator carrying mechanism comprises a feeding mechanism and a carrying manipulator mechanism. The multi-axis manipulator carrying mechanism is characterized in that the feeding mechanism comprises a feeding conveying belt connected with a servo driving module; the carrying manipulator mechanism comprises a base, and a multi-axis manipulator corresponding to the tail end of the feeding conveying belt is arranged on the base; a rotary connecting frame is arranged on the multi-axis manipulator; mounting frames are arranged on the two sides of the rotary connecting frame correspondingly; suction cup devices are arranged on the two mounting frames correspondingly; a CCD visual monitoring system is arranged at the tail end of the feeding conveying belt and correspondingly located above the feeding mechanism; and a backlight source is arranged below the tail end of the feeding conveying belt.

The invention relates to an automatic tool vending machine and system. The automatic tool vending machine comprises a machine cabinet, an industrial control system and a mechanism execution system. An RFID induction zone, an RFID induction antenna and an internal industrial personal computer are arranged in the industrial control system, the RFID induction antenna conducts automatic data recognition on materials inside the automatic tool vending machine, and the internal industrial personal computer achieves the human-computer interaction function of the system; a taking mechanism is arranged in the mechanism execution system and comprises a plurality of independent pushing mechanisms arranged side by side, and materials selected by a user are pushed out of the automatic tool vending machine through the pushing mechanisms. According to the automatic tool vending machine, the whole processes of production, usage, recycling and management are efficiently managed and controlled, and the greater promoting effect is achieved for improving the processing efficiency of a factory and improving the whole automation concept of the factory.

Work cell and factory level automation require that an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) achieve demanding positional accuracy and repeatability relative to a cradle fixture or workstand within a work cell. The AGV makes distance measurements of objects within the work cell using laser scanner sensors. The distance measurements are filtered of objects that are not target features on the cradle fixture or workstand. Systematic or bias errors of the laser scanner sensor are removed from the filtered distance measurements, and a mathematical filter or estimator is applied to the filtered distance measurements using random errors of the laser scanner sensor to generate estimated distance measurements. A map of the target features is then constructed using the estimated distance measurements, wherein the map is used for path planning and navigation control of the AGV relative to the cradle fixture or workstand within the work cell.

The invention relates to the industrial wireless network technology, in particular to a channel model based factory automation wireless network ARQ retransmitting method. The method is oriented to a star network of an IEEE 802.11 single-hop BSS structure, reduces difficulty for maintenance and management, improves the system flexibility, and meets the network real-time and reliable requirements as the method adopts a TDMA mechanism to support ordered transmission for retransmission data of large-scale network nodes in each TDMA time slot. The dynamic retransmission time slot reserving method based on a link layer channel model is adopted to ensure the reliability index, reduce the time and message overhead due to distribution of the retransmission communication resource and improve the communication resource utilization rate. Aggregated NACK and a resource distribution method based on ID value are utilized to obviously reduce the overhead due to ACK transmission and resource distribution information, and achieve high efficiency, low overhead, high possibility of implementing and the like.

The invention discloses an EPA (Ethernet for Plant Automation) communication IP (Intellectual Property) core and a system on chip (SOC) based on an AMBA (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture) bus structure. An EPA protocol stack is encapsulated into an IP hard core, and the IP core comprises an EPA module, an AHB (Advanced High-performance Bus) interface module, a DMAC (Direct Memory Access Controller) module, a data communication interface module and a register module. The EPA protocol stack is hooked on an AMBA bus, and constructs the SOC together with units such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) and a FLASH. The EPA communication IP core and the system on chip have the beneficial effects that the technical advantages of an ARM (Advanced RISC Machine)+FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) platform are realized, and the defects of high cost, easiness in cracking a core technology and the like in the platform are successfully overcome; based on the implemented efficient interface-open SOC, a communication system based on EPA is more stable and reliable; and by adopting the IP core provided by the invention, an EPA communication function is realized, and a redundant function and an accurate clock synchronizing function are supported.

The invention discloses a steel wire rope assembly machining system and method and belongs to the technical field of factory automatic machining. A steel wire rope assembly comprises a steel wire rope, screws arranged at the two ends of the steel wire rope, and a connecting plate arranged in the middle of the steel wire rope. The machining system comprises a feeding device, a first riveting machine, a second riveting machine and a production guide rail, wherein the feeding device, the first riveting machine and the second riveting machine are arranged in sequence, and the production guide rail is used for connecting the feeding device, the first riveting machine and the second riveting machine. The feeding device and the first riveting machine are arranged on the same side of the second riveting machine. The machining system further comprises a first clamp, a second clamp and a third clamp. The first clamp and the second clamp are arranged on the production guide rail in a sliding manner and arranged on the two sides of the feeding device, and the third clamping device is arranged on the second riveting machine in a sliding manner. The machining system fills up the blank of domestic elevator production enterprises in the automatic machining industry of steel wire rope assemblies, formation of standardized production can be facilitated, and a systematic machining technology and a production system can be established.

The invention discloses a detection-information-fusion-based wireless sensor network deterministic deployment method, which comprises the following steps of: detecting the signal strength x of a target by utilizing sensor devices, wherein the target can be detected by a plurality of sensor devices; computing an estimation value of a target characteristic parameter Theta and a parameter estimation error according to the detected signal strength and characteristic parameter expression of the target by adopting a best linear unbiased estimation method; and computing a maximum spacing distance dmax between adjacent sensor nodes; and computing the number of the sensor nodes required to be deployed and specific arrangement positions according to the dmax. In the method, the number of the sensor nodes for detection can be greatly reduced based on a parameter estimation theory under the condition of given detection probability, detection efficiency can be improved and the cost of implementing effective monitoring by a wireless sensor network can be reduced by utilizing the cooperative information processing capability of the sensor nodes; and the method is applied in the fields of factory automatic equipment state monitoring and fault diagnosis, urban traffic safety monitoring and the like.

The invention relates to a high-precision 3-D rocker, including the dock, connecting rod wearing located on the dock, the first, second direction of movement devices being linked together with the connecting rod activities with setting on the base ,installed in the external base moves with the direction of the first device, the second direction of movement devices connected Potentiometers, located at the other end of the connecting rod handle Rocker, located at the stated rocker a third direction handle internal moves device, the third direction of movement installations include reduction devices, Shaft, Hall sensor circuit boards. The beneficial effect of this invention: the invention of the technology program that is to achieve a three-dimensional control on the condition of not increasing the volume of rocker, and this third direction of movement installation moves easily,with structure strong, stable performance, control sensitive, high precision, and can be widely used in urban security, road monitoring, factory automation, electric power, finance, instruments, chemicals, metallurgy, medical imaging, and other mechanical and electrical equipments.

The invention provides an EPA (ethemet for plant automation) on-chip system, an EPA communication system and an EPA communication method in order to solve technical problems. A third non-real-time phase is added to EPA data communication on the basis of previous periodic and non-periodic communications, non-EPA messages can be supportively and compatibly dispatched and processed apart from EPA periodic messages and non-periodic messages, the on-chip system is supportive to not only EPA configuration software of an upper computer to be pre-configured but also to common EPA message dispatch to be pre-configured, and limitation of the EPA configuration software is broken through; meanwhile, parameters of macro period, module communication time slots, periodic time and the like can be determined on the on-chip system according to situations of scale and data size of entire network, and singular distribution of EPA modules by users is avoided.

The invention relates to the automation technical field of a semiconductor factory, in particular to a management method for semiconductor manufacturing process formulation. On the basis of dividing specific functional roles between a factory automation system and a device, the management method for the semiconductor manufacturing process formulation provided by the invention realizes the management on the process formulation in accordance with a plurality of strategies between the system and the device such as connection, disconnection and management. Through specifically dividing roles between the factory automation system and the device, two systems manage the process formulation coordinately, thereby decreasing the complexity of management and improving the efficiency of management.

The invention discloses an automatic feeding and discharging and transmission device used for an inverted numerically controlled lathe, comprising a feeding and discharging platform, a conveying guide rail and a workpiece turnover mechanism. The feeding and discharging platform is arranged at one side of the lathe bed of the lathe, the back of the lathe bed is provided with a feed hole, the conveying guide rail is distributed and arranged on the feeding and discharging platform from the feed hole and is connected with the subsequent inverted numerically controlled lathes mutually, and the workpiece turnover mechanism is arranged on the conveying guide rail among the lathes, wherein, the feeding and discharging platform comprises a conveying table, a discharging platform and an automatic aligning mechanism; the conveying table has fixed structure which is driven by a chain and connected with the conveying guide rail, the discharging platform is driven by the chain at the bottom to carry out reciprocating motion, and the automatic aligning mechanism is arranged between the conveying table and the discharging platform. In the invention, the workpiece feeding and discharging is realized by the automatic feeding and discharging and transmission device, thus effectively reducing the labor intensity of workers; and the workpiece machining process and the workpiece feeding and discharging can be finished on one machine, thus realizing the factory automated production.

A system may include a fiber distribution hub including a plurality of fiber-optic cables, wherein a particular one of the plurality of fiber-optic cables includes a machine-readable identifier; and a robotic device configured to access particular ones of the plurality of fiber-optic cables. The robotic device may include a print head configured to splice together the particular ones of the plurality of fiber-optic cables by three-dimensional printing of a silane material. A hand-held unit may also include a print head configured to splice together fiber-optic cables by three-dimensional printing of a silane material.

The invention relates to an automatic pallet transfer device and a conveying system. The automatic pallet transfer device comprises a first aerial conveying line, a second aerial conveying line, a pallet with a workpiece, a ground conveying line, an automatic conveying trolley, a first lifter, a second lifter and a transfer device assembly, one end of the first aerial conveying line is connected with the upper portion of the first lifter, the upper portion of the second lifter is connected with an upper station of the workpiece, the lower portion of the first lifter is connected with one end of the ground conveying line, the other end of the ground conveying line is connected with the lower portion of the second lifter, the transfer device assembly crosses over the ground conveying line, and the automatic conveying trolley is respectively connected with the ground conveying line and the transfer device assembly in a matched manner. The automatic pallet transfer device meets requirements of automatic transfer of the workpiece, safety of an assembly shop is improved, drop risks of the workpiece in the lifting process are effectively reduced, and the automation degree of a factory is improved.

The invention relates to a method for joining of a first field device to a wireless sensor actuator network using a configuration tool. The wireless sensor actuator network comprises a plurality of interconnected field devices and gateway for connecting the interconnected field devices to a plant automation network comprising controllers and network manager. The method comprises receiving device information associated with the first field device, transmitting a commissioning request for the first field device, the commissioning request comprising device information and geographical location information of the first field device, receiving commissioning information comprising a session key, a network key and routing information, and commissioning the first field device using the received commissioning information for joining the said field device to the wireless sensor actuator network.