US 11,703,832 B2
Production system, communication method, and information storage medium
Isamu Matsumura, Kitakyushu (JP); Toshinobu Kira, Kitakyushu (JP); Yasufumi Yoshiura, Kitakyushu (JP); Takaaki Shogaki, Kitakyushu (JP); and Hirotaka Niimi, Kitakyushu (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, Fukuoka (JP)
Filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed on Feb. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/179,364.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-026176 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0255604 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/4183 (2013.01) [G05B 19/4185 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A production system, comprising:
a first industrial machine; and
a second industrial machine configured to periodically communicate to and from the first industrial machine,
wherein the second industrial machine is configured to transmit its data to the first industrial machine through use of each of a plurality of periodic regions included in one period;
wherein the first industrial machine is capable of communicating to and from a plurality of opposite parties of communication in one period,
wherein the plurality of periodic regions exist for each of the plurality of opposite parties of communication in one period,
wherein the second industrial machine is configured to use each of the plurality of periodic regions including a periodic region for the second industrial machine and a periodic region for a virtual industrial machine which is a virtual version of the second industrial machine, and
wherein the period includes a plurality of non-periodic regions and the first industrial machine is configured to only communicate with a single opposite party during a non-periodic region.