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System for management of cutting machines

  • US 6,463,352 B1
  • Filed: 08/25/1999
  • Issued: 10/08/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for management of cutting machines and allocation of jobs among the cutting machines, comprising:

  • a plurality of cutting machines, each cutting machine having a monitor input device through which monitor data indicating the status of the cutting machine is input;

    a plurality of virtual machine components for collecting the monitor data, each virtual machine component corresponding to a cutting machine;

    a database serving component for (i) communicating with a machine monitoring component, for (ii) recording and reading descriptive data including a machine table for describing the cutting machines and a job table describing jobs to be performed on the cutting machines, for (iii) associating the job table with the machine table, and for (iv) recording and reading usage data derived from the monitor data and descriptive data;

    a machine monitoring component for retrieving the monitor data from all of the plurality of virtual machine component and for generating the usage data, said machine monitoring component providing the monitor data and usage data to the database serving component;

    a user interface serving component for (i) communicating with the database serving component and the machine monitoring component, for (ii) serving dynamic interactive user interface elements containing portions of the usage data, monitor data and descriptive data, the content of said dynamic interactive user interface elements being different depending on the content of the usage data, monitor data and descriptive data; and

    at least one user interface interpreting component for displaying the dynamic interactive user interface elements.

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