Automated system for production facility
First Claim
1. An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of a workpiece, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/out control device, said system comprising information transmission means capable of transmitting the control information between the monitor computer and the control computer at a timing that is independent of control of the processes of operation,wherein said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material.
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Abstract
An automated system has a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information of an input/output control device connected to a production facility, a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, and a dual-port memory as an information transmission unit capable of transmitting the control information between the monitor computer and the control computer at a timing that is independent of control of the processes of operation, which is capable of real-time reading/writing to/from all or a part of a memory of the control computer and is written, workpiece-related data, such as status of operation, results of measurement and flags representing the sequence flow information on a per-workpiece basis or per-process basis.
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41 Claims
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1. An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of a workpiece, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/out control device, said system comprising information transmission means capable of transmitting the control information between the monitor computer and the control computer at a timing that is independent of control of the processes of operation,
wherein said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material.
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14. An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of a workpiece, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, said system comprising:
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data communication means for communicating data relating to said workpiece, which data have been acquired by said control computer via the input/output control device, to said monitor computer; and storage means for storing the data relating to said workpiece, which data have been acquired by said data communication means, at said monitor computer, wherein said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means, which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of workpieces, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, said system comprising memory means which, when each process in the production facility ends, stores data representing the process ended in said control computer per each workpiece of said workpieces,
wherein said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means, which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material.
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28. An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of workpieces, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, said system comprising memory means which, when sequence processing in said control computer ends, stores data representing the sequence process ended in said control computer per each workpiece of said workpieces,
wherein said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means, which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material.
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34. An automated system having a monitor computer, which is for remote monitoring and/or analysis of control information from an input/output control device connected to a production facility which performs at least adjustment of a workpiece, and a control computer for controlling the processes of operation of the production facility via the input/output control device, said system comprising:
- information transmission means capable of transmitting the control information between the monitor computer and the control computer at a timing that is independent of control of the processes of operation,
wherein said monitor computer has an editor program for creating the software of said monitor computer and/or said control computer, a compiler program for compiling the software of said monitor computer and/or said control computer, a debugger program for debugging the software of said monitor computer and/or said control computer, a data analyzing program for analyzing the data of the input/output control device, and a menu program for managing start-up/shut-down of a monitoring program which monitors operation of said control computer, and said workpiece is an image forming apparatus which forms an image by exposing a photoreceptor material to a pulse-width modulated light beam, wherein the production facility has adjusting means, which includes an optical system, for adjusting a reflective mirror to adjust scanning position when the light beam of said image forming apparatus scans the photoreceptor material. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
- information transmission means capable of transmitting the control information between the monitor computer and the control computer at a timing that is independent of control of the processes of operation,
Specification