Complete Tool Processing Management for Coordinated Instrument Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing manufacturing environments lack full integration and automation, particularly in the provision and management of complete tools, leading to inefficiencies and reduced accuracy in component manufacturing.
Innovation Solution
A method for data exchange and processing management that integrates instruments and systems within a networked processing environment, enabling centralized control and monitoring of complete tools through a processing management system, which communicates processing data and work instructions to instruments for automated tool management and component manufacturing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If instruments communicate via defined interfaces in integrated manufacturing environments, then data exchange is enabled, but full automation and coordination are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a processing management system as an intermediary that centrally coordinates data exchange between instruments. This mediator receives processing data from a superordinate manufacturing planning system, determines work instructions, and distributes them to relevant instruments, thereby enabling full automation while ensuring reliable process coordination through centralized control
Solution Approach 2:
The processing management system performs multiple functions: it receives processing data, determines work instructions, communicates with instruments, and coordinates complete tool processing. This multi-functional approach consolidates automation control in a single system, improving both automation extent and coordination reliability
2Productivity
If complete tools are used for component manufacture, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but tool wear requires frequent mounting/exchange operations
Solution Approach 1:
The processing management system prepares work instructions and processing data in advance before tools are needed. By pre-determining mounting, presetting, and balancing instructions, the system enables tools to be ready for immediate use, reducing downtime during tool changes and maintaining high manufacturing efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes bidirectional communication with instruments to receive status information and provide work instructions. This feedback loop ensures that tool mounting and exchange operations are coordinated efficiently, with the processing management system responding to actual instrument needs while maintaining overall process optimization
3Loss of information
If data is exchanged between instruments via interfaces, then communication is enabled, but centralized control and monitoring are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data exchange system into distinct functional layers: a superordinate manufacturing planning system that generates processing data, a processing management system that determines work instructions, and individual instruments that execute operations. This segmentation organizes information flow while maintaining centralized coordination, improving data availability without overwhelming system complexity
Data Source
AI summary
The method for data exchange during control of processing of a complete tool, which includes a tool holder and a tool, in an integrated/linked processing environment with at least one instrument for mounting the tool into the tool holder and/or a balancing instrument and/or a presetting instrument provides that a superordinate manufacturing planning/control for manufacturing a component communicates processing data for processing the complete tool, in particular a tool list and/or device sheets, to a processing management system. The processing management system then communicates work instructions/data ascertained using the processing data to the instruments of the integrated/linked processing environment.