Patent ID: 9734469
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for state-transition-controlled processing of objects wherein, via a control system, an object is selected and processed following a state-structured process flow including a plurality of process states, for each process state at least one process task is executed, and the selected object is processed from one process state to a subsequent process state, the method comprising: capturing state parameters of the selected object; determining a process state based on the captured state parameters; assigning the process state to the selected object; generating, via a processor, based on the process state and at least one of state parameters of the selected object, the at least one process task; activating, for a specific process state, a process task of the at least one process task based on task parameters assigned to the process task; generating and expendably assigning one or more operating tags to the activated process task or process flow, the one or more operating tags including dynamically alterable operating parameters controlling at least one of operation of an associated process task, adding operational constraints to processing of the process task, and expanding or indicating task states; processing an object from the determined process state to the subsequent process state by executing the activated process task based on the operating parameters of the operating tags; and monitoring, via the control system, the processing of the selected object based upon at least one of the captured state parameters, the task parameters and the operating parameters, and dynamically generating and adapting, via the control system, the state-structured process flow based on the monitoring, the state structured process flow being an industrial product processing flow, wherein the control system controls execution of the state-structured process flow and is self-adapting by automatically capturing, via measuring sensors, the operating parameters of the associated operating tags, and the processing of the selected object and appropriate signaling by the control system is dynamically adapted by altering the operating parameters of the one or more assigned operating tags.