Patent ID: 9342070
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G05B,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A method for designing a sheet-metal-forming process in which a sheet-metal part is formed, and for assisting a user in managing an assignment from processing units to process operations, the method performed by a processor of a computing system, the processor programmed to determine, from a model of the geometry of the sheet-metal part, a visual representation of the sheet-metal part, and to display this visual representation on a display device operatively coupled to the processor; the processor programmed to maintain a computer based representation of process operations and processing units, wherein a process operation represents manufacturing steps effected on the part by one stroke of a forming press in a single station press or in one station of a multiple station press and wherein a processing unit represents one or more manufacturing steps that are assigned to one feature of the part and that are carried out in the same process operation; the method comprising the steps of: