Industrial equipment production system and method for configuring a motor controller using public and secret information

• US 9,880,546 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2014
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Inventors: Okubo, Tadashi, Kuwamura, Ryutaro, Hashimoto, Ayaka, Imanaga, Kazuhiro, Oka, Yusuke, Tanaka, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Ali, Mohammad
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lindsay, Bernard G
• Application Number:
  US14/526,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20150120014A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,189 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4083 Adapting programme, configuration
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4185 characterised by the network communication
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41865 characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4188 characterised by CIM planning or realisation
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31103 Configure parameters of controlled devices
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31332 Back order management with back order, part maker delivery, production databases
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32032 Salesman creates order, system answers back with price, estimated date
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

A register of an industrial equipment production system acquires setting information adjusted in an industrial equipment and registers the setting information in a server. A receiver receives a production instruction for the industrial equipment. An identifier identifies, in a case where the production instruction is received, the setting information on the industrial equipment to be produced in accordance with the production instruction based on the setting information registered in the server.

Claims

1. An industrial equipment production system, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a first industrial equipment which controls at least one first motor based on a first setting information which was adjusted in the first industrial equipment;

wherein the at least one processor;

repeatedly acquires the first setting information;

registers a history of the first setting information in a server;

is operable to receive, from a user a designation of a past first setting information set in the past, wherein the past first setting information is included in the history and the past first setting information is not the most recent one of the pieces of the first setting information included in the history;

receives a production instruction for a second industrial equipment which controls at least one second motor;

identifies, when the production instruction is received, the past first setting information as second setting information based on the designation;

writes, when the production instruction is received, the second setting information which is the past first setting information into a storage of the second industrial equipment;

generates a customization ID (identifier) and associates the customization ID with the past first setting information, wherein the customization ID includes a public information unique to the customization ID and non-public secret information used for producing the second industrial equipment;

receives the customization ID when the production instruction is received;

wherein if both of the customization ID exists in the server and the first setting information is associated with a user ID of the user, then the at least one processor;

identifies the past first setting information associated with the customization ID as the second setting information; and

writes the public information to the storage of the second industrial equipment and prints the public information,

wherein the second industrial equipment controls the at least one second motor based on the second setting information which is the past first setting information.

2. The industrial equipment production system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor acquires the first setting information stored in a storage of the first industrial equipment and registers the first setting information in the server.

3. The industrial equipment production system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

acquires the first setting information on each of a plurality of the first industrial equipment;

registers the first setting information in the server in association with each of the plurality of the first industrial equipment;

receives the designation relating to the first industrial equipment; and

identifies the first setting information on the designated first industrial equipment based on a piece of the first setting information associated with the designated first industrial equipment among pieces of the first setting information registered in the server.

4. The industrial equipment production system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

repeatedly receives the production instruction; and

identifies, each time the production instruction is received, the first setting information in accordance with the production instruction based on the first setting information registered in the server.

5. The industrial equipment production system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor performs setting of the second industrial equipment in accordance with the production instruction.

6. The industrial equipment production system according to claim 5, wherein the at least one processor performs the setting of a plurality of the second industrial equipment based on the same piece of the second setting information.

7. The industrial equipment production system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

acquires a parameter for a prototype of the second industrial equipment

registers the parameter in the server; and

identifies a parameter for the second industrial equipment.

8. An industrial equipment production server, comprising at least one processor configured to:

be operable to receive, from a user, a designation of a past first setting information set in the past, wherein the past first setting information is included in a history of first setting information which was registered in the industrial equipment production server and was adjusted in first industrial equipment which controls at least one first motor;

receive a production instruction for a second industrial equipment that controls at least one second motor;

identify, if the production instruction is received, the past first setting information as a second setting information based on the designation;

write the second setting information which is the past first setting information into the second industrial equipment;

generate a customization ID (identifier) and associate the customization ID with the past first setting information, wherein the customization ID includes a public information unique to the customization ID and non-public secret information used for producing the second industrial equipment;

receive the customization ID when the production instruction is received;

wherein if both of the customization ID exists in the industrial equipment production server and the first setting information is associated with a user ID of the user, then the at least one processor;

identify the past first setting information associated with the customization ID as the second setting information; and

write the public information to the storage of the second industrial equipment and print the public information,

wherein the second industrial equipment controls the at least one second motor based on the second setting information which is the past first setting information.

9. An industrial equipment production method, comprising:

repeatedly acquiring a first setting information which was adjusted in a first industrial equipment which controls at least one first motor;

registering a history of the first setting information in a server;

receiving, from a user, a designation of a past first setting information set in the past, wherein the past first setting information is included in the history and the past first setting information is not the most recent one of the pieces of the first setting information included in the history;

receiving a production instruction for a second industrial equipment that controls at least one second motor;

identifying, when the production instruction is received, past first setting information as a second setting information based on the designation;

writing, when the production instruction is received, the second setting information which is the past first setting information into the second industrial equipment;

generating a customization ID (identifier) and associating the customization ID with the past first setting information, wherein the customization ID includes a public information unique to the customization ID and non-public secret information used for producing the second industrial equipment;

receiving the customization ID when the production instruction is received;

wherein if both of the customization ID exists in the server and the first setting information is associated with a user ID of the user, then the method further comprising;

identifying the past first setting information associated with the customization ID as the second setting information; and

writing the public information to the storage of the second industrial equipment and printing the public information,

wherein the second industrial equipment controls the at least one second motor based on the second setting information which is the past first setting information.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to:

be operable to receive, from a user, a designation of a past first setting information set in the past, wherein the past first setting information is included in a history of first setting information which was registered in a server and was adjusted in first industrial equipment which controls at least one first motor;

receive a production instruction for a second industrial equipment that controls at least one second motor;

identify, when the production instruction is received past first setting information as a second setting information based on the designation;

write, when the production instruction is received, the second setting information which is the past first setting information into the second industrial equipment;

generate a customization ID (identifier) and associate the customization ID with the past first setting information, wherein the customization ID includes a public information unique to the customization ID and non-public secret information used for producing the second industrial equipment;

receive the customization ID when the production instruction is received;

wherein if both of the customization ID exists in the server and the first setting information is associated with a user ID of the user, then the program further causes the computer to;

identify the past first setting information associated with the customization ID as the second setting information; and

write the public information to the storage of the second industrial equipment and print the public information,

wherein the second industrial equipment controls the at least one second motor based on the second setting information which is the past first setting information.

11. An industrial equipment production system, comprising:

a first receiving means for receiving, from a user, a designation of a past first setting information set in the past, wherein the past first setting information is included in a history of first setting information which was registered in a server and was adjusted in first industrial equipment which controls at least one first motor;

a second receiving means for receiving a production instruction for a second industrial equipment that controls at least one second motor;

using means for using, when the production instruction is received, the past first setting information to set the second industrial equipment in accordance with the production instruction based on the designation

a generating means for generating a customization ID (identifier) and associating the customization ID with the past first setting information, wherein the customization ID includes a public information unique to the customization ID and non-public secret information used for producing the second industrial equipment;

a receiving means for receiving the customization ID when the production instruction is received;

an identification means for identifying the past first setting information associated with the customization ID as the second setting information; and

a writing means for writing the public information to the storage of the second industrial equipment and print the public information,

wherein the past first setting information associated with the customization ID as the second setting information is identified, the public information is written to the storage of the second industrial equipment, and the public information is printed if both of the customization ID exists in the server and the first setting information is associated with a user ID of the user, and

wherein the second industrial equipment controls the at least one second motor based on the second setting information which is the past first setting information.