Managing apparatus and managing system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial machines in manufacturing sites face efficiency issues due to heat transfer affecting high-precision machining, with existing solutions either decreasing overall work efficiency or being impractical for reconfiguring machine layouts.
Innovation Solution
A managing apparatus and system that collect and analyze data to determine correlations between machine tool operations and environmental temperature changes, creating operation plans to restrict other machines' operations and minimize temperature fluctuations during high-precision machining.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the layout of industrial machines is changed to separate high-precision machining machines from heat-generating machines, then manufacturing precision is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to the need to move heavy machines and reconfigure the entire manufacturing site
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a managing apparatus as an intermediary system that coordinates between heat-generating machines and high-precision machining machines. This mediator collects operational data from heat-generating machines, analyzes temperature impact correlations, and generates operation plans to restrict heat-generating machines during critical precision machining periods, thereby resolving the contradiction without physical relocation
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters of heat-generating machines dynamically based on the machining status of high-precision machines. When high-precision machining is detected, the managing apparatus restricts operations of heat-generating machines, effectively changing their operational state from normal to restricted mode, thus controlling temperature impact without changing physical layout
2Manufacturing precision
If operations of heat-generating machines are restricted to maintain stable environmental temperature for high-precision machining, then manufacturing precision is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to reduced overall work efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The managing apparatus implements periodic monitoring of high-precision machine operations and applies restrictive actions to heat-generating machines only during specific periods when precision machining is occurring. This periodic coordination allows heat-generating machines to operate at full capacity during non-critical periods while maintaining precision during critical periods, thus resolving the productivity-precision contradiction
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where the managing apparatus continuously monitors operational status of both heat-generating machines and high-precision machines, analyzes the correlation between heat generation and temperature impact, and dynamically adjusts operation plans. This feedback mechanism ensures restrictions are applied only when necessary, maximizing both precision and productivity
3Manufacturing precision
If operation parameters such as rapid traverse and cutting feed are lowered for all machines, then manufacturing precision is improved by reducing heat generation, but productivity deteriorates due to decreased machining speed
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of uniformly lowering operation parameters for all machines, the system applies localized quality control by identifying specific heat-generating machines that have significant temperature impact on high-precision machines and restricting only those machines during critical periods. This selective approach maintains high machining speeds for machines that do not impact precision, thus resolving the contradiction
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates high-precision machining without significantly reducing machining efficiency by strategically managing the operations of other machines to mitigate heat effects on precision machining tools.
Implementation Method 1
heat is generated in the industrial machine. The heat thus generated in the industrial machine may propagate through air, a wall, a floor, and so on, and affect the operation of another industrial machine
Data Source
AI summary
A managing apparatus includes a data collecting unit that collects at least quality information on a workpiece having been machined by a first machine tool and operational information on other machine, an analyzing unit that performs an analysis for determining correlation between the quality information on a workpiece having been machined by the first machine tool and a change in the operational information on the other machine, an operation plan making unit that makes an operation plan, based on the correlation determined by the analyzing unit, for imposing a restriction on an operation of the other machine to reduce a change in environmental temperature of the first machine tool during high-precision machining performed by the first machine tool, and an operation instruction providing unit that provides an operation instruction to the other machine based on the operation plan made by the operation plan making unit.