US 12,013,689 B2
Method for visualizing process information during manufacturing of sheet metal workpieces
Manuel Kiefer, Sinsheim (DE); Korbinian Weiss, Korntal (DE); Benjamin Schwarz, Muenchingen (DE); and Willi Poenitz, Leonberg (DE)
Assigned to TRUMPF WERKZEUGMASCHINEN SE + CO. KG, Ditzingen (DE)
Filed by TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, Ditzingen (DE)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/231,059.
Application 17/231,059 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/075984, filed on Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 126 059.8 (DE), filed on Oct. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0232128 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); B26D 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41875 (2013.01) [B26D 5/007 (2013.01); G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31472 (2013.01); G05B 2219/32218 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40078 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for visualizing manufacturing process information during manufacturing of workpieces with a flatbed machine tool, wherein the workpieces are output as cut material on a pallet of the flatbed machine tool, a sorting table, or a conveyor belt, and wherein the cut material is given in a plate-shaped arrangement according to a plate-shaped starting material, the method comprising:
providing workpiece image data in a manufacturing control system, wherein the workpiece image data is associated with at least one of the workpieces of the cut material and is configured to be displayed on a display unit,
providing workpiece-specific manufacturing process information in the manufacturing control system, wherein the workpiece-specific manufacturing process information is acquired in a workpiece-specific manner during the manufacturing of the workpieces in the flatbed machine tool and the workpiece-specific manufacturing process information comprises manufacturing features of cutting processes, which are carried out in the flatbed machine tool during manufacturing of the workpieces,
providing a database of illustration options in the manufacturing control system, wherein the illustration options each are associated with a specific manufacturing feature, of the manufacturing features, of the workpiece-specific manufacturing process information and the illustration options are applicable to the workpiece image data to cause an illustration of the respective workpiece image data on the display unit, the illustration being set specifically for the respective manufacturing feature, and
displaying the workpiece image data of the at least one of the workpieces of the cut material on the display unit, while taking into account the illustration options in the workpiece-specific manner, wherein at least one manufacturing feature relates to cutting quality of a laser cutting process of the plate-shaped starting material along a contour line separating the workpiece from a residual material, and the workpiece image data is displayed as a graphic representing the cut material, in which the cutting quality along the contour line separating the workpiece from the residual material is visually highlighted to an operator.