US 11,953,885 B2
Method for displaying workpiece-illustrations for supporting a sorting process
Manuel Kiefer, Sinsheim (DE); Willi Poenitz, Leonberg (DE); Dominik Bitto, Muenchingen (DE); and Marc Teschner, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to TRUMPF WERKZEUGMASCHINEN SE + CO. KG, Ditzingen (DE)
Filed by TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, Ditzingen (DE); and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung E.V., Munich (DE)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/233,604.
Application 17/233,604 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/078024, filed on Oct. 16, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 126 050.4 (DE), filed on Oct. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0240169 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41815 (2013.01) [G05B 2219/39102 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for displaying a sequence of workpiece-illustrations for supporting a sorting process during manufacturing of workpieces with a manufacturing system, the manufacturing system including a machine tool control system in which workpiece image data associated with each of the workpieces are stored as part of a machine-readable processing plan, wherein for each workpiece, the workpiece image data include an illustration based on geometry data of the workpieces to be manufactured; a flatbed machine tool with which the workpieces are manufactured from a plate-shaped starting material according to the machine-readable processing plan T; a conveyor system that transports the workpieces as cut material to a sorting point for sorting the workpieces, the cut material being conveyed in a plate-like arrangement by the conveyor system; and a display unit with a processor for receiving data to be output on a monitor of the display unit, wherein the monitor is arranged in an area of the conveyor system, the method comprising:
transporting, using the conveyor system, manufactured workpieces to the sorting point according to a sequence and arrangement specified by the processing plan;
determining the manufactured workpieces positioned for sorting at the sorting point, taking into account a cutting plan stored in the processing plan and a feed value of a conveyor belt of the conveyor system;
receiving, in the processor of the display unit, workpiece image data provided by the machine tool control system for the manufactured workpieces transported to the sorting point; and
displaying the workpiece image data on the monitor of the display unit in a sequence and an arrangement such that the sequence and the arrangement of the workpiece image data correspond to the sequence and the arrangement of the workpieces transported from the conveyor system to the sorting point.